medieval literature and culture MCQs – Page 9

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