Quiz name: Anthology of English Literature
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Number of questions: 31
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Question: Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern
Britain around 450?
Student answered: d) the Anglo-Saxons
Correct answer is: d) the Anglo-Saxons
Question: Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary
around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
Student answered: a) French
Correct answer is: a) French
Question: The popular legend of which of the following figures made its
earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject
in French, English, and German literatures?
Student answered: b) King Arthur
Correct answer is: b) King Arthur
Question: Toward the close of which century did English replace French as
the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?
Student answered: e) fourteenth
Correct answer is: e) fourteenth
Question: Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of
France in 1336?
Student answered: e) Edward III
Correct answer is: e) Edward III
Question: The decision of which writer to emulate French and Italian
poetry in his own vernacular prompted a changed in the status of English?
Student answered: c) Geoffrey Chaucer
Correct answer is: c) Geoffrey Chaucer
Question: The Britains, after whom the English province of the Roman
Empire was named Britannia, spoke which language?
Student answered: a) Celtic
Correct answer is: a) Celtic
Question: After the collapse of the Roman Empire, from where were
Christian missionaries sent to enforce the religion in Britain?
Student answered: e) a and c only
Correct answer is: e) a and c only
Question: What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?
Student answered: e) a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert
Correct answer is: e) a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert
Question: Who was the first English Christian king?
Student answered: e) Ethelbert
Correct answer is: e) Ethelbert
Question:
In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who
fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
Student answered: b) everlasting shame
Correct answer is: b) everlasting shame
Question: Old English poets, such as the Beowulf poet, were fascinated by
the tension between which two aspects of their hybrid culture?
Student answered: c) pagan and Christian moral codes
Correct answer is: c) pagan and Christian moral codes
Question: The use of 'whale-road' for sea and 'life-house' for body are
examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
Student answered: d) kenning
Correct answer is: d) kenning
Question: Which of the following statements is not an accurate
description of Old English poetry?
Student answered: a) Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral
conduct.
Correct answer is: a) Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral
conduct.
Question: Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite
rhetorical device in Old English poetry?
Student answered: c) ironic understatement
Correct answer is: c) ironic understatement
Question: By what act did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet
kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?
Student answered: e) his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Correct answer is: e) his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Question: Which of the following languages did not coexist in
Anglo-Norman England?
Student answered: b) German
Correct answer is: b) German
Question: Which twelfth-century poet or poets claimed to have obtained
narratives from Breton storytellers?
Student answered: e) b and c only
Correct answer is: e) b and c only
Question: To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of
'romance' emerged, initially apply?
Student answered: d) a work written in the French vernacular
Correct answer is: d) a work written in the French vernacular
Question: What is the ethos of many romances, both aristocratic and
popular alike?
Student answered: e) all of the above
Correct answer is: b) a knight proving his worthiness through nobility of
character
Question: What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the
Kings of Britain?
Student answered: a) the reign of King Arthur
Correct answer is: a) the reign of King Arthur
Question: Which of the following subjects of Early Middle English
religious prose was aimed primarily at women?
Student answered: c) the heroic combats of the virgin martyrs
Correct answer is: c) the heroic combats of the virgin martyrs
Question: The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle
show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200?
Student answered: d) a and c only
Correct answer is: d) a and c only
Question: 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?
Student answered: a) Geoffrey of Monmouth
Correct answer is: b) the Gawain poet
Question: What prompted rural uprisings in Essex and Kent in 1381, which
came as a profound shock to the English ruling class?
Student answered: d) a and b only
Correct answer is: d) a and b only
Question: What was Geoffrey Chaucer's final work?
Student answered: c) The Canterbury Tales
Correct answer is: c) The Canterbury Tales
Question: Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
Student answered: d) William Langland
Correct answer is: d) William Langland
Question: What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?
Student answered: c) the Norman Conquest
Correct answer is: e) the War of the Roses
Question: Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century,
personified vices and virtues?
Student answered: c) the morality play
Correct answer is: c) the morality play
Question: With which of the following are Julien of Norwich and Margery
Kempe most associated?
Student answered: e) a female perspective of the church and its doctrines
Correct answer is: e) a female perspective of the church and its
doctrines
Question: Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to
chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?
Student answered: e) Geoffrey Chaucer
Correct answer is: d) Sir Thomas Malory