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Question 1
Which cultures and languages were important during the Middle Ages?
Answer
The Christian culture in Latin
The Islamic culture in Arabic
The Germanic culture in Old English
All of these
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Question 2
The woman who represent divine love to Dante is named
Answer
Lucia
Francesca
Mona Lisa
Beatrice
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Question 3
Which of the following is an example of kenning?
Answer
triumph-tree
swift word
keel
wyrd
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Question 4
What is the frame / pretext for telling the tales in The Thousand and One Nights?
Answer
To buy a day of life
To pass time during a plague
To entertain on the way to a pilgrimage
To interpret the Suras
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Question 5
Which of the following in NOT an Old English work?
Answer
The Canterbury Tales
"The Wanderer"
The Dream of the Rood
Beowulf
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Question 6
Who was the legendary literary figure, a Romanized Celt, said to have resisted the Germanic
invaders/mercenaries?
Answer
Hrothgar the Horrible
Augustine of Hippo
King Arthur
Alfred the Great
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Question 7
What Roman poet does Dante select as his guide and inspiration?
Answer
Augustine
Virgil
Marcus Aurelius
Ovid
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Question 8
In the Divine Comedy, how does Dante refer to himself?
Answer
As a a pilgrim who must travel into the underworld
As a man having a spiritual crisis in middle age
As one stopped from progressing spiritually because of his own worldliness
All of these
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Question 9
Which of these is true about Dante's poem, The Divine Comedy?
Answer
It is a fundamental text for the European literary imagination.
It celebrates the achievements of the classical world and shows an admiration of Islamic
philosophy.
All of these
It celebrates the central doctrines of medieval Christianity.
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Question 10
What verse form was created for the Divine Comedy?
Answer
The Ballad
The Sonnet
Terza rima
Heroic Couplet
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Question 11
The Divine Comedy was written in
Answer
Verse in Italian
Middle English
Prose in Latin
Old English
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Question 12
Everyman is an excellent example of the medieval drama type called
Answer
A morality play
An epic poem
A divine comedy
A miracle play
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Question 13
During the Old English Period, who invaded Britannia (England)?
Answer
The Jutes
the Danes / Scandinavians
All of these
The Angles and the Saxons
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Question 14
The Divine Comedy is divided into three parts:
Answer
The Wolf, the Lion, and the Leopard
Faith, Hope and Charity
The Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso
Incontinent, Violent, and Fraudulent
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Question 15
The Canterbury pilgrims travel during
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summer
late fall
winter
early spring
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Question 16
Who wrote the the sixth-century classic The Consolation of Philosophy ?
Answer
Boethius
St. Augustine
King Arthur
King Alfred the Great
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Question 17
Whose Ecclesiastical History of the English People recounts the story of the Church in England?
Answer
King Alfred's
Venerable Vede's
St. Jerome's
St. Augustine's
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Question 18
Which of the following collection of tales is set within the frame of another, larger tale?
Answer
The Thousand and One Nights
The Decameron
The Canterbury Tales
All of these
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Question 19
How many tales are in the Canterbury Tales collection?
Answer
About two dozen
One Thousand and One
One Hundred
One Hundred Twenty
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Question 20
What emperor established Christianity as virtually the official religion of the Roman empire?
Answer
Constantine
Nero
Herod
Caesar Augustus
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Question 21
The “I” character in The Canterbury Tales is a person named
Answer
Geoffrey
Beowulf
Dante
Giovanni
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Question 22
How many tales in the Decameron?
Answer
One hundred twenty
Thirty-three
One hundred organized over ten days
One thousand and one
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Question 23
This text written was written about 1100 and is the foundational texts of the French literary tradition:
Answer
Beowulf
The Divine Comedy
The Song of Roland
The Decameron
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Question 24
The law of Dante's Hell, in which the figures are punished as they sinned is called
Answer
Monasticism
The Seven Deadly Sins
Symbolic retribution
The City of Dis
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Question 25
The Decameron is written in what form and language?
Answer
In Latin
In Spanish
In prose in Italian
In verse in French
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Question 26
The Canterbury Tales is written is what language?
Answer
In Middle English
In classical Latin
In Italian in verse.
In Old English
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Question 27
Giovanni Boccaccio begins the tales of the Decameron with a prologue which details what historical
event?
Answer
The eruption of Vesuvius
The Lisbon earthquake
A plague in Florence
The Fall of Constantinople
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Question 28
In the Dante's Divine Comedy, what number is a key to its organization and subject matter?
Answer
Seven
Three
Five
Four
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Question 29
Which collection of revelations is called the Recitation and is meant to be recited and not translated?
Answer
The Koran
The Divine Comedy
The Decameron
Song of Roland
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Question 30
The Canterbury pilgrims travel to the site of the martyrdom of what saint?
Answer
John Donne
Beatrice
St. Augustine
Thomas a Becket
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Question 31
Who was the fourth-century African whose career seems to moderns to bridge the gap between ancient
pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages?
Answer
Augustine of Hippo
King Arthur
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante
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Question 32
What is the primary literary device used in Old English poetry?
Answer
Conceits
Alliteration
Terza Rima
Rhyme
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Question 33
In the Divine Comedy, what do the three beast represent?
Answer
Pride, lust, anger
Hell, purgatory, heaven
Faith, hope, and charity
Incontinence, violence and ambition, malice and fraud
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Question 34
The Middle Ages spans approximately one thousand years from 500-1500, from the classical civilation of
Greece and Rome to the beginning of the
Answer
The Renaissance
The Restoration
The Baroque Age
The Romantic Age
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Question 35
Which is an accurate description of the Middle Ages?
Answer
An age of chivalry
All of the these
An age of feudalism
An age of faith