A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
C. Their readers’ primary language was English.
D. A and C only
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What was vellum ?
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The use of “whale-road”for sea and “lifehouse” for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?
A. parchment made of animal skin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants(“villeins”)
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. an unbreakable oath of fealty
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Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
A. symbolism
B. simile
C. metonymy
D. kenning
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Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?
A. Beowulf
B. Arthur
C. Caedmon
D. Augustine of Canterbury
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in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French ?
A. Latin
B. Dutch
C. French
D. Celtic
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Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true ?
A. 1360
B. 1357
C. 1378
D. none of the above
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Chaucer was released from legal action by____________in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction ?
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.
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Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 ?
A. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
B. Philippa de Roet of Flanders
C. Agnes de Copton
D. none of the above
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How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?
A. French
B. Norwegian
C. Spanish
D. Hungarian
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