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

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

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

5、单选题：
_____ is the father of English poetry.
选项：
A:Beowulf
B:William Shakespeare
C:Geoffrey Chaucer
D:Edmund Spenser
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 Oxford scholar
B:the prioress
C:the wife of Bath
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:Jutes
B:Saxons
C:Celts
D:Angles
答案: 【Jutes;
Saxons;
Angles】