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one of Chaucer’s daughter was___________?
A. a musician
B. an astronomer
C. a nun
D. none of the above
Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?
A. French
B. Norwegian
C. Spanish
D. Danish
Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as______________?
A. Chaucer’s corner
B. poet’s corner
C. legend’s corner
D. none of the above
Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?
A. French
B. Norwegian
C. Spanish
D. Hungarian
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
Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?
A. the Normans
B. the Geats
C. the Anglo-Saxons
D. the Danes
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 Peasant Uprising of 1381.
C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.
What is the first extended written specimen of Old English ?
A. Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy
B. Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible
C. Malory’s Morte Darthur
D. a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert
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
Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?
A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
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