Middle Ages MCQs

Option A: nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

Option B: bewilderment and visceral loathing.

Option C: admiration and elegiac sympathy.

Option D: bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

Correct Answer: admiration and elegiac sympathy. ✔

Option A: 1300 to 1350

Option B: 1337 to 1453

Option C: 1302 to 1343

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: 1337 to 1453 ✔

Option A: Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.

Option B: The common people were still essentially pagan.

Option C: They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic

Option D: The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

Correct Answer: The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners. ✔

Option A: Alfred

Option B: Richard III

Option C: Richard II

Option D: Ethelbert

Correct Answer: Ethelbert ✔

Option A: Julian of Norwich

Option B: Margery Kempe

Option C: William Langland

Option D: Sir Thomas Malory

Correct Answer: Sir Thomas Malory ✔

Option A: Bede

Option B: Sir Thomas Malory

Option C: Geoffrey Chaucer

Option D: Caedmon

Correct Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer ✔

Option A: the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

Option B: the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Option C: the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

Option D: the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

Correct Answer: the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. ✔

Option A: the short story

Option B: the heroic epic

Option C: the morality play

Option D: the romance

Correct Answer: the morality play ✔

Option A: his birth date

Option B: his death year

Option C: his father’s name

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: his birth date ✔

Option A: a poet

Option B: a merchant

Option C: a civil servant

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: a civil servant ✔

Option A: courtiers entering the service of Richard II

Option B: translators of French romances

Option C: women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

Option D: knights preparing for their first tournament

Correct Answer: women who have chosen to live as religious recluses ✔

Option A: Geoffrey of Monmouth

Option B: the Gawain poet

Option C: the Beowulf poet

Option D: Chrétien de Troyes

Correct Answer: the Gawain poet ✔

Option A: Chaucer’s corner

Option B: poet’s corner

Option C: legend’s corner

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: poet’s corner ✔

Option A: beating a friar in a London street

Option B: for writing poetry against the church

Option C: for crossing the border of Great Britain

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: beating a friar in a London street ✔

Option A: a musician

Option B: an astronomer

Option C: a nun

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: a nun ✔

Option A: leather merchant

Option B: civil servant

Option C: a vintner

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: a vintner ✔

Option A: Edward III

Option B: Henry II

Option C: Richard II

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: Henry II ✔

Option A: Westminster Palace

Option B: Tower of London

Option C: St. George’s chapel at Windsor

Option D: Buckingham Palace

Correct Answer: Buckingham Palace ✔

Option A: embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine

Option B: repetition of parallel syntactic structures

Option C: ironic understatement

Option D: stress on every third diphthong

Correct Answer: ironic understatement ✔

Option A: the reign of King Arthur

Option B: the coronation of Henry II

Option C: King John’s seal of the Magna Carta

Option D: the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine

Correct Answer: the reign of King Arthur ✔

Option A: 1374 to 1385

Option B: 1350 to 1360

Option C: 1360 to 1400

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: 1374 to 1385 ✔

Option A: banishment to Asia

Option B: everlasting shame

Option C: conversion to Christianity

Option D: mild melancholia

Correct Answer: everlasting shame ✔

Option A: Dante’s Divine Comedy

Option B: Boccaccio’s Decameron

Option C: The Dream of the Rood

Option D: Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

Correct Answer: Dante’s Divine Comedy ✔

Option A: She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.

Option B: She was a virgin martyr.

Option C: She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.

Option D: She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.

Correct Answer: She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular. ✔

Option A: Sir Thomas Malory

Option B: Geoffrey Chaucer

Option C: Caedmon

Option D: John Gower

Correct Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer ✔

Option A: Geoffrey of Monmouth

Option B: the Gawain poet

Option C: the Beowulf poet

Option D: Chr´tien de Troyes

Correct Answer: the Gawain poet ✔

Option A: a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire

Option B: a story about love and adventure

Option C: a Roman official

Option D: a work written in the French vernacular

Correct Answer: a work written in the French vernacular ✔

Option A: Alfred

Option B: Richard III

Option C: Richard II

Option D: Ethelbert

Correct Answer: Ethelbert ✔

Option A: Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.

Option B: The common people were still essentially pagan.

Option C: They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.

Option D: The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

Correct Answer: The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners. ✔

Option A: the short story

Option B: the heroic epic

Option C: the morality play

Option D: the romance

Correct Answer: the morality play ✔

Option A: banishment to Asia

Option B: everlasting shame

Option C: conversion to Christianity

Option D: being buried alive

Correct Answer: everlasting shame ✔

Option A: Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.

Option B: Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.

Option C: Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.

Option D: Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed

Correct Answer: Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct. ✔

Option A: Latin

Option B: Dutch

Option C: French

Option D: Celtic

Correct Answer: Dutch ✔

Option A: symbolism

Option B: simile

Option C: metonymy

Option D: kenning

Correct Answer: kenning ✔

Option A: embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine

Option B: repetition of parallel syntactic structures

Option C: ironic understatement

Option D: stress on every third diphthong

Correct Answer: ironic understatement ✔

Option A: Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy

Option B: Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible

Option C: Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Option D: a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

Correct Answer: a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert ✔

Option A: nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.

Option B: bewilderment and visceral loathing.

Option C: admiration and elegiac sympathy.

Option D: bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

Correct Answer: admiration and elegiac sympathy. ✔

Option A: Sir Thomas Malory

Option B: Margery Kempe

Option C: Geoffrey Chaucer

Option D: William Langland

Correct Answer: William Langland ✔

Option A: the Normans

Option B: the Geats

Option C: the Celts

Option D: the Anglo-Saxons

Correct Answer: the Anglo-Saxons ✔

Option A: the royal family and upper orders of the nobility

Option B: the lower orders of the nobility

Option C: agricultural laborers

Option D: the clergy

Correct Answer: the clergy ✔

Option A: Boethius’s Consolidation of Philosophy

Option B: Saint Jerome’s translation of the Bible

Option C: Malory’s Morte Darthur

Option D: a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

Correct Answer: a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert ✔

Option A: tenth

Option B: eleventh

Option C: twelfth

Option D: fourteenth

Correct Answer: fourteenth ✔

Option A: Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.

Option B: Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.

Option C: Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.

Option D: Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed

Correct Answer: Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct. ✔

Option A: lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut

Option B: nurse of royal court

Option C: governess to Henry IV

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut ✔

Option A: 1386

Option B: 1300

Option C: 1343

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: 1386 ✔

Option A: Dante’s Divine Comedy

Option B: Boccaccio’s Decameron

Option C: The Dream of the Rood

Option D: Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

Correct Answer: Dante’s Divine Comedy ✔

Option A: the Battle of Hastings

Option B: Saint Patrick’s mission

Option C: the Fourth Lateran Council

Option D: his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

Correct Answer: his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine ✔

Option A: Henry II

Option B: Henry III

Option C: Henry V

Option D: Edward III

Correct Answer: Henry II ✔

Option A: Geoffrey Chaucer

Option B: Marie de France

Option C: Chrétien de Troyes

Option D: b and c only

Correct Answer: b and c only ✔

Option A: the Battle of Agincourt

Option B: the Battle of Hastings

Option C: the Norman Conquest

Option D: the War of the Roses

Correct Answer: the War of the Roses ✔

Option A: a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire

Option B: a story about love and adventure

Option C: a Roman official

Option D: a work written in the French vernacular

Correct Answer: a work written in the French vernacular ✔

Option A: 4

Option B: 1

Option C: 0

Option D: 2

Correct Answer: 4 ✔

Option A: They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.

Option B: Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.

Option C: Their readers’ primary language was English.

Option D: A and C only

Correct Answer: A and C only ✔

Option A: parchment made of animal skin

Option B: the service owed to a lord by his peasants(“villeins”)

Option C: unrhymed iambic pentameter

Option D: an unbreakable oath of fealty

Correct Answer: parchment made of animal skin ✔

Option A: symbolism

Option B: simile

Option C: metonymy

Option D: kenning

Correct Answer: kenning ✔

Option A: Beowulf

Option B: Arthur

Option C: Caedmon

Option D: Augustine of Canterbury

Correct Answer: Arthur ✔

Option A: Latin

Option B: Dutch

Option C: French

Option D: Celtic

Correct Answer: Dutch ✔

Option A: 1360

Option B: 1357

Option C: 1378

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: 1360 ✔

Option A: She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.

Option B: She was a virgin martyr.

Option C: She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.

Option D: She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.

Correct Answer: She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular. ✔

Option A: Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne

Option B: Philippa de Roet of Flanders

Option C: Agnes de Copton

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne ✔

Option A: French

Option B: Norwegian

Option C: Spanish

Option D: Hungarian

Correct Answer: French ✔

Option A: the Battle of Hastings

Option B: Saint Patrick’s mission

Option C: the Fourth Lateran Council

Option D: his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

Correct Answer: his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine ✔

Option A: the Normans

Option B: the Geats

Option C: the Anglo-Saxons

Option D: the Danes

Correct Answer: the Anglo-Saxons ✔

Option A: the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.

Option B: the Peasant Uprising of 1381.

Option C: the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

Option D: the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

Correct Answer: the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. ✔

Option A: Henry II

Option B: Henry V

Option C: Louis XIV

Option D: Edward III

Correct Answer: Edward III ✔

Option A: Geoffrey Chaucer

Option B: Marie de France

Option C: Chr´tien de Troyes

Option D: b and c only

Correct Answer: b and c only ✔

Option A: the reign of King Arthur

Option B: the coronation of Henry II

Option C: King John’s seal of the Magna Carta

Option D: the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine

Correct Answer: the reign of King Arthur ✔

Option A: They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.

Option B: Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.

Option C: Their readers’ primary language was English.

Option D: a and c only

Correct Answer: a and c only ✔

Option A: Beowulf

Option B: Arthur

Option C: Augustine of Canterbury

Option D: Alfred

Correct Answer: Arthur ✔

Option A: Sir Thomas Malory

Option B: Margery Kempe

Option C: Geoffrey Chaucer

Option D: William Langland

Correct Answer: William Langland ✔

Option A: parchment made of animal skin

Option B: the service owed to a lord by his peasants (\villeins\)

Option C: unrhymed iambic pentameter

Option D: a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts

Correct Answer: parchment made of animal skin ✔

Option A: the Battle of Agincourt

Option B: the Battle of Hastings

Option C: the Norman Conquest

Option D: the War of the Roses

Correct Answer: the War of the Roses ✔

Option A: courtiers entering the service of Richard II

Option B: translators of French romances

Option C: women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

Option D: knights preparing for their first tournament

Correct Answer: ✔

Option A: Julian of Norwich

Option B: Margery Kempe

Option C: William Langland

Option D: Sir Thomas Malory

Correct Answer: Sir Thomas Malory ✔

Option A: tenth

Option B: twelfth

Option C: thirteenth

Option D: fourteenth

Correct Answer: fourteenth ✔

Option A: French

Option B: Norwegian

Option C: Spanish

Option D: Danish

Correct Answer: French ✔