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Literature in The Middle Ages
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1. How did Henry II, the first of England's Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?
2. What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?
3. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the ∖flowering∖of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?
4. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?
5. Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?
6. What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?
7. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
8. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
9. What was vellum?
10. Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true?
11. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
12. Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to
13. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
14. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures?
15. Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
16. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?
17. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain?
18. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
19. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:
20. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for
21. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
22. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200?
23. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
24. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of 'romance' emerged, initially apply?
25. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?

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