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. a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts

2. 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

3. What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain ?

   A. the reign of King Arthur
   B. the coronation of Henry II
   C. King John’s seal of the Magna Carta
   D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine

4. 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

5. How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?

   A. the Battle of Hastings
   B. Saint Patrick’s mission
   C. the Fourth Lateran Council
   D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

6. The use of \whale-road\for sea and \lifehouse\ for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry ?

   A. symbolism
   B. simile
   C. metonymy
   D. kenning

7. Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry ?

   A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
   B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures
   C. ironic understatement
   D. stress on every third diphthong

8. chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for_______________________?

   A. beating a friar in a London street
   B. for writing poetry against the church
   C. for crossing the border of Great Britain
   D. none of the above

9. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?

   A. the short story
   B. the heroic epic
   C. the morality play
   D. the romance

10. what was the duration of hundred year’s war ?

    A. 1300 to 1350
    B. 1337 to 1453
    C. 1302 to 1343
    D. none of the above