English Literature Mcqs

A. A traditional form with repeated consonant sounds
B. An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic pentameter with traditional rhymes
C. A popular form in the 9th and 10th centuries
D. A form brought to England in the years during the Norman invasion

A. The term is an allusion to Beowulf’s golden torque.
B. The term represents the comitatus ethic.
C. The term is an example of kenning.
D. The term is an example of caesura.

A. Faith
B. Time spent in prayer
C. Donations made to the monastery
D. Good deeds

A. Caedmon’s Hymn
B. The Battle of Maldon
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. The Dream of the Rood

A. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
B. “Piers Plowman”
C. “The Canterbury Tales”
D. “The Book of Margery Kempe”

A. Episodic French and German poetry
B. Resemblance to an epic
C. Supernatural themes involving dragons and monsters
D. All of these answers

A. Wergild is connected to the idea that bloodshed leads to more bloodshed.
B. Wergild contributes to the claustrophobic, doom-laden atmosphere.
C. Wergild relates to the concept of wyrd.
D. All of these answers

A. The merchant
B. The knight
C. The prioress
D. The plowman

A. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
B. Caedmon’s Hymn
C. Chretien de Troyes Yvain, or le Chevalier au Lion
D. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

A. A pause or break in a line of poetry
B. Giving inanimate objects human qualities
C. A metaphorical compound
D. The image used to qualities in a metaphor or simile