1、单选题：
Which is the oldest poem in the English language? 
选项：
A:Beowulf
B:Utopia 
C:The Canterbury Tales
D:Faerie Queene
答案: 【Beowulf】

2、单选题：
The first christian writer is ______.
选项：
A:Cynewulf
B:Geoffrey Chaucer 
C:Bede
D:Caedmon 
答案: 【Caedmon 】

3、单选题：
__________ embellish the whole of Beowulf. For example the sea is often “swan’sway” or “whale-path”; a soldier is often a “ shield-hololder or battle-hero” , etc.
选项：
A:Kennings
B:Understatements
C:Personifications 
D:Alliterations 
答案: 【Kennings】

4、单选题：
The chief form of medieval English literature is ____.
选项：
A:tales
B:drama
C:epic
D:romance
答案: 【romance】

5、单选题：
_____ is the father of English poetry.  
选项：
A:William Shakespeare
B:Edmund Spenser
C:Geoffrey Chaucer
D:Beowulf
答案: 【Geoffrey Chaucer】

6、单选题：
The sketch of a middle-class woman in Chaucer’s time was vividly reflected in the tale told by ______.
选项：
A:the prioress
B:the wife of Bath
C:the Oxford scholar
D:the knight

答案: 【the wife of Bath】

7、多选题：
_______ began to come in large bands with the deliberate purpose of permanent settlement.
选项：
A:Angles 
B:Saxons
C:Jutes
D:Celts
答案: 【Angles ;
Saxons;
Jutes】