English Literature MCQs

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Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?


aGeoffrey Chaucer


bMarie de France


cChr´tien de Troyes


db and c only


View Answer b and c only

Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?


aHenry II


bHenry V


cLouis XIV


dEdward III


View Answer Edward III

Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?


athe Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.


bthe Peasant Uprising of 1381.


cthe Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.


dthe wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.



Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?


athe Normans


bthe Geats


cthe Anglo-Saxons


dthe Danes


View Answer the Anglo-Saxons

How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?


athe Battle of Hastings


bSaint Patrick’s mission


cthe Fourth Lateran Council


dhis marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine



Chaucer was released from legal action by____________in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction ?


aMiss Cecily Chaumpaigne


bPhilippa de Roet of Flanders


cAgnes de Copton


dnone of the above



Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true ?


aShe sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.


bShe was a virgin martyr.


cShe is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.


dShe made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.



in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French ?


a1360


b1357


c1378


dnone of the above


View Answer 1360

Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?


aLatin


bDutch


cFrench


dCeltic


View Answer Dutch

The use of “whale-road”for sea and “lifehouse” for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?


asymbolism


bsimile


cmetonymy


dkenning


View Answer kenning

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