Category: Medieval Literature and Culture

A. A traditional form with repeated consonant sounds
B. An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic pentameter with traditional rhymes
C. A popular form in the 9th and 10th centuries
D. A form brought to England in the years during the Norman invasion

A. pilgrimages
B. charitable donations
C. prayers on the sinner’s behalf
D. All of the Above

A. justice
B. piety
C. sexuality
D. education

A. it led to the rise of Germanic cultures
B. it created a conflict Christianity and paganism
C. it led to the end of Roman forms of governing
D. All of the Above

A. paradox
B. affective piety
C. imagery
D. pathos

A. the problem of a “man writing as a woman”
B. the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men
C. the idea that noble women are more similar to men than peasant women are
D. the notion that chastity is impossible for men

A. assonance
B. allegory
C. litotes
D. simile

A. it describes the importance of communication with others in order to reach salvation
B. it describes a form of worship based on praying to devotional art
C. it describes a way of life that became popular after the Middle Ages
D. Non of these

A. “Revelations of Divine Love”
B. “Acts of Thecla”
C. “The Wooing of Our Lord”
D. “Orison to an Almighty God”

A. Feudalism represents the world ofscholars who studied the ancient texts of the past.
B. The feudal world is one of glamor and beauty.
C. Feudalism represents an economic hierarchy, the upper levels of which created and consumed literature.
D. Feudalism represents interesting family quarrels that make for good stories.