Category: Middle Ages

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. his birth date
B. his death year
C. his father’s name
D. none of the above

A. parchment made of animal skin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants (villeins)
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts

A. the royal family and upper orders of the nobility
B. the lower orders of the nobility
C. agricultural laborers
D. the clergy

A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Margery Kempe
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. William Langland

A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Marie de France
C. Chrétien de Troyes
D. b and c only