Question: The use of “whale-road”for sea and “lifehouse” for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?

• 1. symbolism
• 2. simile
• 3. metonymy
• 4. kenning

Question: Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?

• 1. Beowulf
• 2. Arthur
• 3. Caedmon
• 4. Augustine of Canterbury

Question: Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?

• 1. Latin
• 2. Dutch
• 3. French
• 4. Celtic

Question: in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French ?

• 1. 1360
• 2. 1357
• 3. 1378
• 4. none of the above

Question: Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true ?

• 1. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
• 2. She was a virgin martyr.
• 3. She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
• 4. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.

Question: Chaucer was released from legal action by____________in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction ?

• 1. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
• 2. Philippa de Roet of Flanders
• 3. Agnes de Copton
• 4. none of the above

Question: Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?

• 1. French
• 2. Norwegian
• 3. Spanish
• 4. Hungarian

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 people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?

• 1. the Normans
• 2. the Geats
• 3. the Anglo-Saxons
• 4. the Danes

Question: Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

• 1. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
• 2. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
• 3. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
• 4. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.