A. 1374 to 1385
B. 1350 to 1360
C. 1360 to 1400
D. none of the above
Middle Ages
Middle Ages
A. banishment to Asia
B. everlasting shame
C. conversion to Christianity
D. mild melancholia
A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
C. The Dream of the Rood
D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
B. She was a virgin martyr.
C. She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
D. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.
A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Caedmon
D. John Gower
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
B. the Gawain poet
C. the Beowulf poet
D. Chr´tien de Troyes
A. a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
B. a story about love and adventure
C. a Roman official
D. a work written in the French vernacular
A. Alfred
B. Richard III
C. Richard II
D. Ethelbert
A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
B. The common people were still essentially pagan.
C. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
D. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.
A. the short story
B. the heroic epic
C. the morality play
D. the romance
