Middle Ages

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

A. Edward III
B. Henry II
C. Richard II
D. none of the above

A. Westminster Palace
B. Tower of London
C. St. George’s chapel at Windsor
D. Buckingham Palace

A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
C. ironic understatement
D. stress on every third diphthong

A. the reign of King Arthur
B. the coronation of Henry II
C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine