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o what did the word “roman,” from which the genre of “Romance” emerged, initially apply?

A. A. A work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire

B. B. A story about love and adventure

C. C. A Roman Official

D. D. A work written in the French vernacular

Correct answer is: B. B. A story about love and adventure

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Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?

A. A. Latin

B. B. Dutch

C. C. Celtic

D. D. French

Correct answer is: C. C. Celtic

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How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?

A. A. The Battle of Hastings

B. B. Saint Patrick's mission

C. C. The Fourth Lateran Council

D. D. His marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

Correct answer is: D. D. His marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

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Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:

A. A. Nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

B. B. Bewilderment and visceral loathing.

C. C. Admiration and elegiac sympathy.

D. D. Bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

Correct answer is: A. A. Nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

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In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?

A. A. Banishment to Asia

B. B. Everlasting shame

C. C. Conversion to Christianity

D. D. Mild melancholia

Correct answer is: B. B. Everlasting shame

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Who was the first English Christian king?

A. A. Alfred

B. B. Richard III

C. C. Richard II

D. D. Ethelbert

Correct answer is: D. D. Ethelbert

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What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?

A. A. Boethius's Consolidation of Philosophy

B. B. Saint Jerome's translation of the Bible

C. C. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

D. D. A code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

Correct answer is: C. C. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

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Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:

A. A. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

B. B. The Norman Conquest of 1066.

C. C. The Peasant Uprising of 1381.

D. D. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.pen_spark

Correct answer is: A. A. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

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What was vellum?

A. A. Parchment made of animal skin

B. Option 2

C. C. Unrhymed iambic pentameter

D. D. An unbreakable oath of fealty

Correct answer is: A. A. Parchment made of animal skin

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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

A. A. Bede

B. B. Sir Thomas Malory

C. C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. D. Caedmon

Correct answer is: C. C. Geoffrey Chaucer

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