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Category: Middle Ages
Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?
A. 1374 to 1385
B. 1350 to 1360
C. 1360 to 1400
D. none of the above
Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces, which of these was not in his charge ?
A. Westminster Palace
B. Tower of London
C. St. George’s chapel at Windsor
D. Buckingham Palace
What was vellum ?
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
Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry ?
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
Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?
A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
C. The Dream of the Rood
D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
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.
In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the “flowering”of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chrétien de Troyes
what was the duration of hundred year’s war ?
A. 1300 to 1350
B. 1337 to 1453
C. 1302 to 1343
D. none of the above
one of Chaucer’s daughter was___________?
A. a musician
B. an astronomer
C. a nun
D. none of the above
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