What was vellum ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What was vellum ?

   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

2. What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?

   A. the Battle of Agincourt
   B. the Battle of Hastings
   C. the Norman Conquest
   D. the War of the Roses

3. 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.

4. how many children chaucer had ?

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

5. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?

   A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
   B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
   C. The Dream of the Rood
   D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

6. Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?

   A. the Normans
   B. the Geats
   C. the Celts
   D. the Anglo-Saxons

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

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

8. 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

9. one of Chaucer’s daughter was___________?

   A. a musician
   B. an astronomer
   C. a nun
   D. none of the above

10. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?

    A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
    B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
    C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
    D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.