Medieval Literature and Culture

A. Wergild is connected to the idea that bloodshed leads to more bloodshed.
B. Wergild contributes to the claustrophobic, doom-laden atmosphere.
C. Wergild relates to the concept of wyrd.
D. All of these answers

A. The merchant
B. The knight
C. The prioress
D. The plowman

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

A. A pause or break in a line of poetry
B. Giving inanimate objects human qualities
C. A metaphorical compound
D. The image used to share qualities in a metaphor or simile

A. The mock epic
B. The lyric ballad
C. The lai
D. The heroic epic

A. The Matter of Germany
B. The Matter of Rome
C. The Matter of Britain
D. The Matter of England

A. The knightly ideal
B. Conversion to Christianity
C. Sexual purity
D. Feudal loyalty

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

A. The Church moved away from using Latin.
B. The trend of educational reforms was reversed.
C. England returned to its pre-feudal state.
D. The primary language became French

A. The poem could be easily sung in all churches and was widely accepted.
B. The poem’s theme of alienation becomes familiar to Anglo-Saxon poetry.
C. The poem illustrates Caedmon’s erudition and scholarship.
D. The poem is widely believed to be the first written poem in Old English.