Category: Medieval Literature and Culture

A. Caedmon’s Hymn
B. The Battle of Maldon
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. The Dream of the Rood

A. Government policies were incorrectly based on the idea that the rich would help the poor survive.
B. The high rates of the poll tax were considered unfair.
C. Peasants were jointly united against the pattern of upper-class harassments
D. All of these answers

A. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae
B. Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love
C. Marie de France’s Lanval
D. Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur

A. superstition
B. adultery
C. jealous fathers
D. All of the Above

A. monks
B. working class women
C. working class men
D. peasants

A. people who attempt to found their own religious orders
B. people who reject asceticism and contemplation
C. people who attempted to contact God without the intervention of an established religious order
D. people who were formally tied to religious orders

A. The relationships between knights and ladies
B. The feudal system
C. The knight’s lack of loyalty to his lord
D. The conduct of wars and tournaments

A. The phrase refers to anchoresses’ responsibility to defend other Christians.
B. The phrase suggests that women should safeguard their spirituality through total withdrawal from the world.
C. The phrase is considered one of the positive effects of prayer.
D. The phrase involves becoming a nunin order to escape the bad influence of men.

A. Priests should be used as examples of ecclesiastical life.
B. Priests should be avoided, because men are bad influences.
C. Priests should offer anchoresses their only connection to the outside world.
D. Priests should be honored, because men are naturally more spiritual.

A. An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons
B. A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence
C. A unique form of English spoken in Germany
D. A form brought to England by the Scandinavians