MIDDLE AGES Mcqs

• A. A work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
• B. A story about love and adventure
• C. A Roman Official
• D. A work written in the French vernacular

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

• A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• B. Romeo and Juliet
• C. Hamlet
• D. ALL

Which of William Shakespeare’s plays is considered a dark comedy, exploring themes of death, deception, and revenge?Read More »

• A. Latin
• B. Dutch
• C. Celtic
• D. French

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

• A. The Battle of Hastings
• B. Saint Patrick’s mission
• C. The Fourth Lateran Council
• D. His marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

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

• A. Symbolism
• B. Simile
• C. Kenning
• D. Metonymy

The use of “whale-road” for sea and “life-house” for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English Poetry?Read More »

• A. Nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
• B. Bewilderment and visceral loathing.
• C. Admiration and elegiac sympathy.
• D. Bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

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

• A. Banishment to Asia
• B. Everlasting shame
• C. Conversion to Christianity
• D. Mild melancholia

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

• A. Alfred
• B. Richard III
• C. Richard II
• D. Ethelbert

Who was the first English Christian king?Read More »

• A. Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy
• B. Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible
• C. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
• D. A code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?Read More »

• A. The Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
• B. The Norman Conquest of 1066.
• C. The Peasant Uprising of 1381.
• D. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.pen_spark

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