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The use of whale-roadfor sea and lifehouse for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?
A. symbolism
B. simile
C. metonymy
D. kenning
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. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
D. a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert
Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for_______________?
A. courtiers entering the service of Richard II
B. translators of French romances
C. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
D. knights preparing for their first tournament
Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?
A. Henry II
B. Henry V
C. Louis XIV
D. Edward III
To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of “romance”emerged, initially apply ?
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
What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain ?
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
Chaucer became a member of Parliament in_______________?
A. 1386
B. 1300
C. 1343
D. none of the above
The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
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
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