English Literature Mcqs

A. Landlords had growing problems with their tenants.
B. The lack of guilds led to a decline in available civic services.
C. A modern social hierarchy developed.
D. All of these answers

A. There is no firm concept of when English literature began.
B. The epic poem is written in a language that is unrecognizable to many English speakers.
C. Danish and German scholars first claimed the poem.
D. There are no English characters in the poem.

A. An early form spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons
B. A filed-down Old English with heavy French influence
C. A unique form of English spoken in Germany
D. A form brought to England by the Scandinavians

A. The shift away from individual petty kingdoms to central rule under King Alfred
B. Efforts to revive learning
C. The translation of Latin religious and historical works in vernacular traditions
D. All of these answers

A. Anchoresses should live in a dwelling attached to a church.
B. Anchoresses should avoid gossip.
C. Anchoresses should avoid men.
D. All of these answers

A. The line describes the optimistic attitude of the speaker.
B. The line suggests that the speaker is comfortably settled.
C. The Wanderer is a poem about fatal endings.
D. The line suggests that fate plays an irrevocable role in human affairs

A. Enlightenment
B. Feudalism
C. Guildhouses
D. Monasticism

A. A poem with courtly love as its central theme
B. A short lyrical poem
C. A poem that is usually in octosyllabic couplets
D. All of these answers

A. The Hundred Years War
B. The Great Schism
C. The Black Plague
D. All of these answers

A. Both include stacked tales in a single sequential narrative.
B. Both have courtly love as their central theme.
C. Both are designed in an episodic manner.
D. Both are usually intended to be sung as hymns.