English Literature Mcqs

A. Feudalism represents the world ofscholars who studied the ancient texts of the past.
B. The feudal world is one of glamor and beauty.
C. Feudalism represents an economic hierarchy, the upper levels of which created and consumed literature.
D. Feudalism represents interesting family quarrels that make for good stories.

A. The Bretons roots were in the Celtic cultural tradition.
B. Breton literature had a profound effect on medieval literature in England.
C. The Bretons represented prominent forces in the Norman invasion.
D. All of these answers

A. Dream poetry
B. Romance
C. Lai
D. Estates satire

A. English Reformation and Elizabethan Age
B. Civil war and the Restoration
C. Roman departure and the Renaissance
D. Romanticism and the Enlightenment

A. Priests died in great numbers.
B. Rent prices increased because of the market boom.
C. The upper classes were burdened by their monopoly of scarce resources.
D. Chaucer wrote no direct descriptions.

A. The Norman Conquest increased the French influence.
B. The Norman Conquest marked the last attempt for a Scandinavian nation to overtake England.
C. The Norman Conquest ended cultural interaction with Norway and Denmark.
D. All of these answers

A. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae
B. Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love
C. Marie de France’s Lanval
D. Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur

A. Cornish cycle
B. York cycle
C. Roman cycle
D. Wakefield cycle

A. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
B. “The Second Shepherds’ Play”
C. “The Knight’s Tale”
D. “The Dream of the Rood”

A. The phrase refers to anchoresses’ responsibility to defend other Christians.
B. The phrase suggests that women should safeguard their spirituality through total withdrawal from the world.
C. The phrase is considered one of the positive effects of prayer.
D. The phrase involves becoming a nunin order to escape the bad influence of men.