medieval literature and culture MCQs – Page 4

A. The dreamer is an example of the superstition of paganism.

B. The dreamer is a relic from before the Christian conversion.

C. The dreamer functions as an example of the comitatus ethic.

A. He separated Arthurian legend from tales of courtly love.

C. He dropped the supernatural theme found in Arthurian legend.

D. He was the first to discuss the Knights of the Round Table.

A. The thegn is an Anglo-Saxon lord who partakes in the comitatus ethic.

B. The thegn is a class of protocapitalism opposed to the guild system.

C. The thegn is a warrior who pays money in exchange for exemption from military service.

A. As the ransom God demands for the sins of humanity

B. As a special Jewish teacher

C. As the suffering Christ

B. As someone who broken the tradition of offering lavish gifts to his supporters

C. As a historical figure with whom her audience is largely unfamiliar

D. As a warrior king

A. The Wanderer

B. The Battle of Maldon

C. The Seafarer

B. The Second Crusade in the 12thcentury

C. The First Crusade in the 11th-century

D. The Norman Conquest in 1066

B. her biginneth the earste boc of ures ant ureisuns the gode beoth to seggen

C. I left my lands to come where you are/To find you I have come so far!

D. The knight took a step toward/The maiden she called him forward

A. The dream connection between the two sexes

B. The human souls tendency towards intimate union with the divine

D. The separation between humanity and divinity

A. This line suggests that good kings are rewarded by God.

B. This line suggests that Britain was the most important place in the medieval world.

C. This line suggests that Arthur was beloved by the English, because he was good.

A. The comitatus ethic represents a culture in which rulers had no responsibilities to their citizens.

C. The comitatus ethic shows a historical return to older types of political organization.

D. The comitatus ethic is evidence of a period in which behavior was guided by Christian ethics.

A. The speakers spiritual regression with the increasing trend of Christian conversions

B. The desire for a more advanced world with stagnant social progress

D. The desire to travel in search of wisdom with the social conventions

A. The Book of Margery Kempe

B. Piers Plowman

C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A. The epic poem is written in a language that is unrecognizable to many English speakers.

C. Danish and German scholars first claimed the poem.

D. There is no firm concept of when English literature began.

A. The translation of Latin religious and historical works in vernacular traditions

B. The shift away from individual petty kingdoms to central rule under King Alfred

D. Efforts to revive learning

A. Wergild relates to the concept of wyrd.

B. Wergild is connected to the idea that bloodshed leads to more bloodshed.

C. Wergild contributes to the claustrophobic, doom-laden atmosphere.

A. Sutton Hoo gives more information about the society that created Beowulf.

B. Sutton Hoo provides architectural evidence from a virtually unexplored period of history.

C. Sutton Hoo provides insight into the conversion from paganism to Christianity.

A. The line suggests that the speaker is comfortably settled.

B. The line describes the optimistic attitude of the speaker.

D. The Wanderer is a poem about fatal endings.

B. Trouthe represents the supernatural aspects of the medieval romance.

C. Trouthe suggests the imminent return to a pre-feudal social organization.

D. m paganism to Christianity.

E. Trouthe alludes to the British conversion

A. The term represents the comitatus ethic.

B. The term is an example of caesura.

D. The term is an allusion to Beowulfs golden torque.

A. Sexual purity

C. Feudal loyalty

D. The knightly ideal

A. The phrase involves becoming a nunin order to escape the bad influence of men.

B. The phrase refers to anchoresses responsibility to defend other Christians.

D. The phrase is considered one of the positive effects of prayer.

B. English was a more commonly used language in the Church.

C. Women were more educated, so they knew more languages.

D. The audience was likely unable to read French.

A. The knight is dedicated to his feudal lord.

B. The knight is religious.

D. The knight is submissive to his lad.

B. Hurnting

C. The golden torque

D. Kenning

A. Giving inanimate objects human qualities

B. A metaphorical compound

C. The image used to share qualities in a metaphor or simile

B. He believed that English Christians needed to move to a New Israel.

C. He did not believe that Christianity was an essential part of English culture.

D. He thought that England was a pagan wilderness.

B. The poems theme of alienation becomes familiar to Anglo-Saxon poetry.

C. The poem illustrates Caedmons erudition and scholarship.

D. The poem could be easily sung in all churches and was widely accepted.

A. An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic pentameter with traditional rhymes

B. A form brought to England in the years during the Norman invasion

D. A popular form in the 9th and 10th centuries

B. The Matter of England

C. The Matter of Britain

D. The Matter of Rome

A. To sway audiences away from reading tales of courtly love

B. To inform illiterate readers about Arthurian legend

C. To convert readers to Christianity through positive examples

A. Both include stacked tales in a single sequential narrative.

C. Both are designed in an episodic manner.

D. Both are usually intended to be sung as hymns.

B. The high rates of the poll tax were considered unfair.

C. Peasants were jointly united against the pattern of upper-class harassments

D. Government policies were incorrectly based on the idea that the rich would help the poor survive.

A. Cornish cycle

C. Roman cycle

D. York cycle

A. As an economic system of rewards used to ensure warriors reliability

C. As a mutually beneficial relationship between rulers and warriors

D. As a pre-feudal power structure based on the distribution of economic and military resources

B. Eventually English was reestablished, deeply influenced by Norman French.

C. For a time, England became a country with two languages.

D. English as a language of the kings court was replaced by Norman French.

A. To pray

C. To preach

D. To serve the church

B. They were promoters of the monastic life.

C. They were extremely charismatic.

D. They wanted to move from the basics of Christian faith to a full Christian life.

A. The image used to share qualities in a metaphor or simile

B. Giving inanimate objects human qualities

C. A metaphorical compound

A. Social satire

C. Allegory

D. Dream vision

A. The Great Schism

C. The Black Plague

D. The Hundred Years War

B. The knight had not finished his tale.

C. The miller did not ask politely.

D. A member of the clergy should have spoken next.

A. The Rule of Saint Benedict explained the new architectural style.

B. The Rule of Saint Benedict was the first example of poetry written in the vernacular language.

C. The Rule of Saint Benedict offered an early example of dream poetry.

A. Alliteration

C. Caesura

D. Personification