Question: Chaucer became a member of Parliament in_______________?

• 1. 1386
• 2. 1300
• 3. 1343
• 4. none of the above

Question: Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?

• 1. Dante’s Divine Comedy
• 2. Boccaccio’s Decameron
• 3. The Dream of the Rood
• 4. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

Question: How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?

• 1. the Battle of Hastings
• 2. Saint Patrick’s mission
• 3. the Fourth Lateran Council
• 4. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question: Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?

• 1. Henry II
• 2. Henry III
• 3. Henry V
• 4. Edward III

Question: Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?

• 1. Geoffrey Chaucer
• 2. Marie de France
• 3. Chrétien de Troyes
• 4. b and c only

Question: What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?

• 1. the Battle of Agincourt
• 2. the Battle of Hastings
• 3. the Norman Conquest
• 4. the War of the Roses

Question: To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of “romance”emerged, initially apply ?

• 1. a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
• 2. a story about love and adventure
• 3. a Roman official
• 4. a work written in the French vernacular

Question: how many children chaucer had ?

• 1. 4
• 2. 1
• 3. 0
• 4. 2

Question: The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?

• 1. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
• 2. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
• 3. Their readers’ primary language was English.
• 4. A and C only

Question: What was vellum ?

• 1. parchment made of animal skin
• 2. the service owed to a lord by his peasants(“villeins”)
• 3. unrhymed iambic pentameter
• 4. an unbreakable oath of fealty