A. Caedmon’s Hymn
B. The Battle of Maldon
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. The Dream of the Rood
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following accurately describes the way in which the comitatus ethic is represented in Beowulf, The Seafarer, and The Wanderer ?
A. As a mutually beneficial relationship between rulers and warriors
B. As an economic system of rewards used to ensure warriors reliability
C. As a pre-feudal power structure based on the distribution of economic and military resources
D. All of these answers - Why is the presence of the comitatus ethic in Beowulf significant ?
A. The comitatus ethic represents the shift from a nomadic to a more organized social structure.
B. The comitatus ethic is evidence of a period in which behavior was guided by Christian ethics.
C. The comitatus ethic shows a historical return to older types of political organization.
D. The comitatus ethic represents a culture in which rulers had no responsibilities to their citizens. - Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?
A. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
B. “Piers Plowman”
C. “The Canterbury Tales”
D. “The Book of Margery Kempe” - Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
A. Aristotle’s Poetics
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk - Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
A. Aristotle’s Poetics
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
D. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness - Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?
A. “The Dream of the Rood”
B. “The Wanderer”
C. “The Seafarer”
D. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” - Which of the following texts was inspired by Historia Regum Britanniae ?
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 - Feminist criticism focuses on exploring which of the following aspects of literary texts ?
A. How women are portrayed in literary texts
B. The psychologies of female writers
C. How women have been socially oppressed in literary texts
D. All of these - Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?
A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage … ”
C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
D. Edward Said’s Orientalism - Which of the following texts is an example of epic poetry ?
A. “Paradise Lost”
B. “The Odyssey”
C. “The Iliad”
D. All of the above
