Category: Middle Ages

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

A. 1374 to 1385
B. 1350 to 1360
C. 1360 to 1400
D. none of the above

A. Westminster Palace
B. Tower of London
C. St. George’s chapel at Windsor
D. Buckingham Palace

A. parchment made of animal skin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants(“villeins”)
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. an unbreakable oath of fealty

A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
D. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed

A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
C. The Dream of the Rood
D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
B. The common people were still essentially pagan.
C. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
D. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chrétien de Troyes

A. 1300 to 1350
B. 1337 to 1453
C. 1302 to 1343
D. none of the above

A. 1360
B. 1357
C. 1378
D. none of the above