Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for_______________?

   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

2. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?

   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

3. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?

   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

4. What is the function of Ancrene Wisse ?

   A. paradox
   B. affective piety
   C. imagery
   D. pathos

5. With which literary form is Ancrene Wisse most closely related ?

   A. estate satire
   B. medieval lays
   C. conduct books
   D. medieval allegory

6. The words denoting the colour ‘red’ and the past__tense of the verb ‘read’ ; ‘right’ and’ ‘write’; and ‘site’ and sight’ are examples for________________?

   A. Allophones
   B. Homophones
   C. Homographs
   D. Homonyms

7. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

   A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
   B. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
   C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
   D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

8. how many children chaucer had ?

   A. 4
   B. 1
   C. 0
   D. 2

9. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England ?

   A. Latin
   B. Dutch
   C. French
   D. Celtic

10. Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces, which of these was not in his charge ?

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