Which of the following texts provides the best example of the comitatus ethic ?

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1. Which of the following accurately describes the way in which the comitatus ethic is represented in Beowulf, The Seafarer, and The Wanderer ?

   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...

2. Why is the presence of the comitatus ethic in Beowulf significant ?

   A. The comitatus ethic represents the shift from a nomadic to a more organized social structure. B. The comitatus ethic is evidence of a period in which behavior was guided by Christian ethics. C. The comitatus ethic shows a historical return to older types of political organization. D. The comitatus ethic represents a culture in...

3. Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire ?

   A. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” B. “Piers Plowman” C. “The Canterbury Tales” D. “The Book of Margery Kempe”...

4. Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?

   A. Aristotle’s Poetics B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness D. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk...

5. Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?

   A. Aristotle’s Poetics B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata C. John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” D. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness...

6. Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival ?

   A. “The Dream of the Rood” B. “The Wanderer” C. “The Seafarer” D. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”...

7. Which of the following texts was inspired by Historia Regum Britanniae ?

   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...

8. Feminist criticism focuses on exploring which of the following aspects of literary texts ?

   A. How women are portrayed in literary texts B. The psychologies of female writers C. How women have been socially oppressed in literary texts D. All of these...

9. Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?

   A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon” B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage … ” C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian” D. Edward Said’s Orientalism...

10. Which of the following texts is an example of epic poetry ?

    A. “Paradise Lost” B. “The Odyssey” C. “The Iliad” D. All of the above...