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