Multiple Choice Questions
A Middle Ages
1. Which is the oldest period in the history of English literature?
Middle English Period
Romantic Period
Anglo-Saxon Period■
Victorian Age
2.The Year of Norman Conquest?
1066■
1077
1088
1026
3. Which people began their invasion and conquest of south-western Britain around 450?
The Anglo-Saxons■
The Normans
The Geats
The Celts
The Anglo-Saxons■
The Normans
The Geats
The Celts
4.Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
Norwegian
Hungarian
French■
Spanish
5. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literature?
Beowulf
Arthur■
Augustine of Canterbury
Caedmon
6.Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and ina court of law?
Tenth
Eleventh
Fourteenth■
Twelfth
7. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
Henry II
Henry III
Henry V
Edward III■
8. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Bede
Sir Thomas Malory
Geoffrey Chaucer■
Caedmon
9. What was vellum?
The service owed to a lord by his peasants ("villeins")
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
An unbreakable oath of fealty
Parchment made of animal skin■
10. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:
The Norman Conquest of 1066.
The Peasant Uprising of 1381.
The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
The Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.■
11. What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?
Boethius's Consolidation of Philosophy
Saint Jerome's translation of the Bible
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
A code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert■
12. Who was the first English Christian king?
Richard II
Alfred
Ethelbert■
Richard III
13. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
Mild melancholia
Banishment to Asia
Conversion to Christianity
Everlasting shame■
14. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:
Nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
Bewilderment and visceral loathing.
Admiration and elegiac sympathy■
Bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
15. The use of "whale-road" for sea and "life-house" for the body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
Symbolism
Simile
Kenning■
Metonymy
16. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?
Embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
Repetítion of parallel syntactic structures
Ironic understatement■
Stress on every third diphthong
17. How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?
The Battle of Hastings
Saint Patrick's mission
The Fourth Lateran Council
His marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine■
18. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Latin
Dutch■
French
Celtic
19. Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton Celtic storytellers for their narratives?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France■
20.To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance" emerged, initially apply?
A work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
A story about love and adventure
A Roman official
A work written in the French vernacular■
21.Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to
The royal family and upper orders of the nobility
The lower orders of the nobility
Agricultural labourers
The Clergy ■
22.What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain?
The coronation of Henry II
King John's seal of the Magna Carta
The marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
The reign of King Arthur■
23.Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for
Courtiers entering the service of Richard II
Translators of French romances
Women who have chosen to live as religious recluses■
Knights preparing for their first tournament
24.The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200?
They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
Their readers' primary language was English.
a and c only■
25.In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering" of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?
Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Beowulf poet
The Gawain poet■
Chrétien de Troyes
26.Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
The common people were still essentially pagan.
They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.■
27.Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
Boccaccio's Decameron
The Dream of the Rood
Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
Dante's Divine Comedy■
28.Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
Sir Thomas Malory
Geoffrey Chaucer
Margery Kempe
William Langland■
29.What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?
The Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Hastings
The Norman Conquest
The War of the Roses■
30.Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
The short story
The heroic epic
The morality play■
The romance
31.Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?
Julian of Norwich
William Langland
Margery Kempe
Sir Thomas Malory■
Norwegian
Hungarian
French■
Spanish
5. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literature?
Beowulf
Arthur■
Augustine of Canterbury
Caedmon
6.Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and ina court of law?
Tenth
Eleventh
Fourteenth■
Twelfth
7. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
Henry II
Henry III
Henry V
Edward III■
8. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Bede
Sir Thomas Malory
Geoffrey Chaucer■
Caedmon
9. What was vellum?
The service owed to a lord by his peasants ("villeins")
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
An unbreakable oath of fealty
Parchment made of animal skin■
The Norman Conquest of 1066.
The Peasant Uprising of 1381.
The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
The Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.■
Boethius's Consolidation of Philosophy
Saint Jerome's translation of the Bible
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
A code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert■
12. Who was the first English Christian king?
Richard II
Alfred
Ethelbert■
Richard III
13. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
Mild melancholia
Banishment to Asia
Conversion to Christianity
Everlasting shame■
Nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
Bewilderment and visceral loathing.
Admiration and elegiac sympathy■
Bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
15. The use of "whale-road" for sea and "life-house" for the body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
Symbolism
Simile
Kenning■
Metonymy
16. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?
Embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
Repetítion of parallel syntactic structures
Ironic understatement■
Stress on every third diphthong
17. How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?
The Battle of Hastings
Saint Patrick's mission
The Fourth Lateran Council
His marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine■
18. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Latin
Dutch■
French
Celtic
19. Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton Celtic storytellers for their narratives?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France■
20.To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance" emerged, initially apply?
A work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
A story about love and adventure
A Roman official
A work written in the French vernacular■
21.Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to
The royal family and upper orders of the nobility
The lower orders of the nobility
Agricultural labourers
The Clergy ■
22.What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain?
The coronation of Henry II
King John's seal of the Magna Carta
The marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
The reign of King Arthur■
Courtiers entering the service of Richard II
Translators of French romances
Women who have chosen to live as religious recluses■
Knights preparing for their first tournament
24.The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200?
They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
Their readers' primary language was English.
a and c only■
25.In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering" of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?
Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Beowulf poet
The Gawain poet■
Chrétien de Troyes
26.Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
The common people were still essentially pagan.
They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.■
27.Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
Boccaccio's Decameron
The Dream of the Rood
Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
Dante's Divine Comedy■
Sir Thomas Malory
Geoffrey Chaucer
Margery Kempe
William Langland■
29.What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?
The Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Hastings
The Norman Conquest
The War of the Roses■
30.Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
The short story
The heroic epic
The morality play■
The romance
31.Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?
Julian of Norwich
William Langland
Margery Kempe
Sir Thomas Malory■
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