Question: Which of the following best defines alliterative verse ?

• 1. A traditional form with repeated consonant sounds
• 2. An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic pentameter with traditional rhymes
• 3. A popular form in the 9th and 10th centuries
• 4. A form brought to England in the years during the Norman invasion

Question: In Beowulf, what is the significance of the term whale-road ?

• 1. The term is an allusion to Beowulf’s golden torque.
• 2. The term represents the comitatus ethic.
• 3. The term is an example of kenning.
• 4. The term is an example of caesura.

Question: In “Everyman,” which of the following provides the path to redemption in the afterlife ?

• 1. Faith
• 2. Time spent in prayer
• 3. Donations made to the monastery
• 4. Good deeds

Question: Which of the following texts provides the best example of the comitatus ethic ?

• 1. Caedmon’s Hymn
• 2. The Battle of Maldon
• 3. The Canterbury Tales
• 4. The Dream of the Rood

Question: Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?

• 1. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
• 2. “Piers Plowman”
• 3. “The Canterbury Tales”
• 4. “The Book of Margery Kempe”

Question: Which of the following are characteristics of a medieval romance ?

• 1. Episodic French and German poetry
• 2. Resemblance to an epic
• 3. Supernatural themes involving dragons and monsters
• 4. All of these answers

Question: In Beowulf, what is the significance of wergild ?

• 1. Wergild is connected to the idea that bloodshed leads to more bloodshed.
• 2. Wergild contributes to the claustrophobic, doom-laden atmosphere.
• 3. Wergild relates to the concept of wyrd.
• 4. All of these answers

Question: Which of the following characters from “The Canterbury Tales” might represent the rising middle class of the 14th century ?

• 1. The merchant
• 2. The knight
• 3. The prioress
• 4. The plowman

Question: Which of the following texts was inspired by Historia Regum Britanniae ?

• 1. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
• 2. Caedmon’s Hymn
• 3. Chretien de Troyes Yvain, or le Chevalier au Lion
• 4. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

Question: Which of the following best defines caesura ?

• 1. A pause or break in a line of poetry
• 2. Giving inanimate objects human qualities
• 3. A metaphorical compound
• 4. The image used to share qualities in a metaphor or simile