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what was the occupation of Chaucer’s father ?
A. leather merchant
B. civil servant
C. a vintner
D. none of the above
In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance ?
A. banishment to Asia
B. everlasting shame
C. conversion to Christianity
D. mild melancholia
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
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.
Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
A. Beowulf
B. Arthur
C. Caedmon
D. Augustine of Canterbury
Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
A. Beowulf
B. Arthur
C. Augustine of Canterbury
D. Alfred
How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
A. the Battle of Hastings
B. Saint Patrick’s mission
C. the Fourth Lateran Council
D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Marie de France
C. Chr´tien de Troyes
D. b and c only
Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot ?
A. Julian of Norwich
B. Margery Kempe
C. William Langland
D. Sir Thomas Malory
Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
A. the short story
B. the heroic epic
C. the morality play
D. the romance
Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?
A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Caedmon
D. John Gower
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