English Literature MCQs

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Why was Acrene Wisse written in the vernacular language ?


aEnglish was a more commonly used language in the Church.


bThe audience was likely unable to read French.


cWomen were more educated, so they knew more languages.


dThe audience was partially lay-women with little knowledge of Latin



Why was the alliterative revival associated with nationalism and nostalgia ?


aThe stories of King Arthur made all English people nostalgic.


bMetrical poetry simply got boring.


cAlliterative poetry was much easier to write.


dAlliterative poetry was associated with a world before the French influence, a world before the Conquest



Which of the following characteristics are not essential to knightly chivalry as described by Chretien de Troyes ?


aThe knight is religious.


bThe knight is submissive to his lad.


cThe knight is dedicated to his feudal lord.


dThe knight is blond, tall, and elegant.



Which of the following best defines wergild ?


aGiving inanimate objects human qualities


bA metaphorical compound


cA reparational payment demanded of a person guilty of homicide


dThe image used to share qualities in a metaphor or simile



What was the focus of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae ?


aThe life and poems of Caedmon


bThe conversion of Britain from paganism


cThe early years of William the Conqueror


dThe tales of King Arthur



Complete the following statement. Chaucer wrote his elegiac poem, “The Book of the Duchess,” to praise the young Duchess of Lancaster who tragically died of___________________?


athe Black Plague.


bunrequited love for John of Gaunt.


cdrowning in the Thames.


dchildbirth.


View Answer the Black Plague.

In Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion, what is the significance of trouthe ?


aTrouthe represents the supernatural aspects of the medieval romance.


bTrouthe alludes to the British conversion from paganism to Christianity.


cTrouthe emphasizes the positive side of feudalism.


dTrouthe suggests the imminent return to a pre-feudal social organization.



In Acrene Wisse, the mission of the anchorite was justified through what purpose ?


aTo serve the church


bTo withdraw and meditate upon God


cTo pray


dTo preach



In the first decades after the Norman Conquest, which of the following best describes the use of language in England ?


aThe conquered English quickly studied French.


bThe French conquerors learned English in order to be able to govern well.


cLatin became a common language for interaction between the two groups.


dMost of the English population went on speaking English with French used mostly among the upper-ruling class.



Which of the following best defines mysticism ?


aThe dream connection between the two sexes


bA literary genre written mainly in the Anglo-Saxon era


cThe human soul’s tendency towards intimate union with the divine


dThe separation between humanity and divinity



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