Chapter One
Fill in the following blanks.
1. Angles, Saxons and _________ usually known as Anglo-Saxons are the first Englishmen. Language spoken by them is called the Old English, which is the foundation of English language and literature.
2. The literature of Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ________ and Christian.
3. monarchyAmong the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention _______, who wrote a poetic “Paraphrase” of the Bible, and Cynewulf.
4. “__________” is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.
5. In the year 1066, the Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of _______.
Choose the best answer for each blank.
1. In Anglo-Saxon period, “Beowulf” represented the ______ poetry.
a. pagan    b. religious    c. romantic    d. sentimental
2. In 1066, _______ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.
a. William the Conqueror  b. Julius Caesar    c. Alfred the Great  d. Claudius
3. The story of “______” is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.
a. Sir Cawain and the Green Knight
b. The story of Beowulf
c. Piers the plowman
d. The Canterbury Tales
4. William Langland’s “___________” is written in the form of dream vision.
a. Kubla Khan              b. Piers the Plowman   
c. The Dream of John Bull   d. Morte d’Arthur
Define the following items.
1. Old English period    2. Alliteration  3. Kenning  4. Epic  5.
Chapter Two
Fill in the following blanks.
1. The Canterbury Tales contains the _________ and 24 tales, some of which left unfinished.
2. The _____________ provides a framework for the tales in The Canterbury Tales, and it comprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures.
3. The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales are on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at a place named __________.
4. Chaucer’s work__________ gives us a picture of the condition of English life of his day, such as its work and play, its deeds and dreams, its fun and sympathy.
Choose the best answer for each blank.
1. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______.
a. William Langland’s Piers the Plowman
b. Geoffery Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
c. John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
d. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. _______, the father of English poetry and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340.
a. Geoffery Chaucer    b. Sir Gawain    c. Francis Bacon    d. John Dryden
3. Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, and was buried in ________.
a. Flanders    b. France    c. Italy    d. Westminster Abbey
4. ________ was the first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.
a. Chaucer    b. Keats  c. Southey  d. Tennyson
5. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his ________ , a translation of French “Roman de la Rose”.
a. Romance of the Rose    b. A Red, Red Rose  c. Piers the Plowman  d. Troilus and Criseyde
6. _______creative work vividly reflected the changes which had taken root in English culture of the second half of the 14th century.
a. Chaucer’s    b. Byron’s    c. Shelley’s  d. Eliot’s 
7. Generally speaking, Chaucer’s works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life. Which period is wrong?
a. the period of French influence (1359-1372)
b. the period of Italian influence (1372-1386)
c. the period of English influence (1386-1400)
d. the period of American influence (1371-1382)
Chapter Three & Four
1. The 16thcentury in England was a period of the breaking up of feudal relations and the establishing of the foundations of ___________.
2. Thomas More wrote his famous prose work “_______”.
3. In Elizabethan Period, ________ wrote more than fifty excellent essays, which made him one of the best essayists in English literature.
4. _______ is often referred to as “the poet’s poet”.
5. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece “__________”.
6. In the Elizabethan Period, ________ is the greatest playwright of England.
7. In the Elizabethan Period, ________ wrote many excellent essays, such as “Of Studies”.

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