Literature of the medieval period. The writers of Norman period.
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400
Test
1. What year marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon period and the beginning of
the Medieval Period?
2. Who Invaded England and unified the country in 1066?
3. What is the language of the court and nobility?
4. What is the Common language of a country?
5. The system that dictated the organization of society during the middle aged
was called?
6. How called a lyric songs that invented by humble singers and have survived
by word of mouth?
7. Adventure stories usually in verse, about battles and heroes?
8. The name of the Norman poet that completed romance about King Arthur
and the knights of the Round Table?
9. Who is a historical character and the national hero of the Celts?
10.The greatest writer of Middle English Period and Father of English poetry?
11.How called the new rhythmic pattern introduced by Chaucer?
12.What is the title of Chaucer's best-known work?
13.What is the title of the earliest of Chaucer's poems, written some time
between 1369 and 1372?
14.Chaucer served in the English army under which king?
15.The scenes grew into full-length works called?
16.What kind of plays dealt with events in the Bible?
17.In the 15th century Who collected the romances of King Arthur and
arranged them in a series of stories in prose?
18.The book "Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble
Knights of the Round Table" was more widely known as?
19.A distinctive feature of Malory's work is its Language, a mixture of?
20.The work "Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble
Knights of the Round Table" was published in?