Category: Middle Ages

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

A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
B. She was a virgin martyr.
C. She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
D. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.

A. the Battle of Agincourt
B. the Battle of Hastings
C. the Norman Conquest
D. the War of the Roses

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

A. the reign of King Arthur
B. the coronation of Henry II
C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine

A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
C. Their readers’ primary language was English.
D. a and c only

A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

A. beating a friar in a London street
B. for writing poetry against the church
C. for crossing the border of Great Britain
D. none of the above

A. banishment to Asia
B. everlasting shame
C. conversion to Christianity
D. being buried alive

A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
B. She was a virgin martyr.
C. She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
D. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.