Middle Ages

A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

A. 1300 to 1350
B. 1337 to 1453
C. 1302 to 1343
D. none of the above

A. his birth date
B. his death year
C. his father’s name
D. none of the above

A. a poet
B. a merchant
C. a civil servant
D. none of the above

A. courtiers entering the service of Richard II
B. translators of French romances
C. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
D. knights preparing for their first tournament

A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chrétien de Troyes

A. Chaucer’s corner
B. poet’s corner
C. legend’s corner
D. none of the above

A. beating a friar in a London street
B. for writing poetry against the church
C. for crossing the border of Great Britain
D. none of the above

A. a musician
B. an astronomer
C. a nun
D. none of the above

A. leather merchant
B. civil servant
C. a vintner
D. none of the above