USA: +1(669)289-8683 
Sign in
Question 1
Which cultures and languages were important during the Middle Ages?
Answer
|
The Christian culture in Latin |
||||
|
The Islamic culture in Arabic |
||||
|
The Germanic culture in Old English |
||||
|
All of these |
1 points
Question 2
The woman who represent divine love to
Dante
is named
Answer
|
Lucia |
|
|
Francesca |
|
|
Mona Lisa |
|
|
Beatrice |
1 points
Question 3
Which of the following is an example of kenning?
Answer
|
triumph-tree |
|
swift word |
|
keel |
|
wyrd |
1 points
Question 4
What is the frame / pretext for telling the tales in
The Thousand and One Nights
?
Answer
To buy a day of life
To pass time during a plague
To entertain on the way to a pilgrimage
To interpret the
S
uras
1 points
Question 5
Which of the following in NOT an Old English work?
Answer
|
The Canterbury Tales |
||
|
“The Wanderer” |
||
|
The Dream of the Rood |
||
|
Beowulf |
1 points
Question 6
Who was the legendary literary figure, a Romanized Celt, said to have resisted the Germanic invaders/mercenaries?
Answer
|
Hrothgar the Horrible |
||
|
Augustine of Hippo |
||
|
King Arthur |
||
|
Alfred the Great |
1 points
Question 7
What Roman poet does Dante select as his guide and inspiration?
Answer
| Augustine |
|
Virgil |
|
Marcus Aurelius |
|
Ovid |
1 points
Question 8
In the Divine Comedy, how does Dante refer to himself?
Answer
|
As a a pilgrim who must travel into the underworld |
|
As a man having a spiritual crisis in middle age |
|
As one stopped from progressing spiritually because of his own worldliness |
1 points
Question 9
Which of these is true about Dante’s poem,
The Divine Comedy
?
Answer
|
It is a fundamental text for the European literary imagination. |
|
It celebrates the achievements of the classical world and shows an admiration of Islamic philosophy. |
|
It celebrates the central doctrines of medieval Christianity. |
1 points
Question 10
What verse form was created for the Divine Comedy?
Answer
|
The Ballad |
|
The Sonnet |
|
Terza rima |
|
Heroic Couplet |
1 points
Question 11
The Divine Comedy was written in
Answer
|
Verse in Italian |
|
Middle English |
|
Prose in Latin |
| Old English |
1 points
Question 12
Everyman is an excellent example of the medieval drama type called
Answer
|
A morality play |
|
An epic poem |
|
A divine comedy |
|
A miracle play |
1 points
Question 13
During the Old English Period, who invaded Britannia (England)?
Answer
|
The Jutes |
|
the Danes / Scandinavians |
|
The Angles and the Saxons |
1 points
Question 14
The Divine Comedy is divided into three parts:
Answer
|
The Wolf, the Lion, and the Leopard |
|
Faith, Hope and Charity |
|
The Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso |
|
Incontinent, Violent, and Fraudulent |
1 points
Question 15
The Canterbury pilgrims travel during
Answer
|
summer |
|
late fall |
|
winter |
|
early spring |
1 points
Question 16
Who wrote the the sixth-century classic The Consolation of Philosophy ?
Answer
|
Boethius |
|
|
St. Augustine |
|
|
King Alfred the Great |
1 points
Question 17
Whose Ecclesiastical History of the English People recounts the story of the Church in England?
Answer
|
King Alfred’s |
|
Venerable Vede’s |
|
St. Jerome’s |
|
St. Augustine’s |
1 points
Question 18
Which of the following collection of tales is set within the frame of another, larger tale?
Answer
| The Thousand and One Nights | ||
|
The Decameron |
1 points
Question 19
How many tales are in the Canterbury Tales collection?
Answer
|
About two dozen |
|
One Thousand and One |
|
One Hundred |
|
One Hundred Twenty |
1 points
Question 20
What emperor established Christianity as virtually the official religion of the Roman empire?
Answer
|
Constantine |
|
Nero |
|
Herod |
|
Caesar Augustus |
1 points
Question 21
The “I” character in The Canterbury Tales is a person named
Answer
|
Geoffrey |
|
| Dante | |
|
Giovanni |
1 points
Question 22
How many tales in the Decameron?
Answer
|
One hundred twenty |
|
Thirty-three |
|
One hundred organized over ten days |
|
One thousand and one |
1 points
Question 23
This text written was written about 1100 and is the foundational texts of the French literary tradition:
Answer
| The Divine Comedy | |
|
The Song of Roland |
1 points
Question 24
The law of Dante’s Hell, in which the figures are punished as they sinned is called
Answer
|
Monasticism |
|
The Seven Deadly Sins |
|
Symbolic retribution |
|
The City of Dis |
1 points
Question 25
The Decameron is written in what form and language?
Answer
|
In Latin |
|
In Spanish |
|
In prose in Italian |
|
In verse in French |
1 points
Question 26
The Canterbury Tales is written is what language?
Answer
|
In Middle English |
|
In classical Latin |
|
In Italian in verse. |
|
In Old English |
1 points
Question 27
Giovanni Boccaccio begins the tales of the Decameron with a prologue which details what historical event?
Answer
|
The eruption of Vesuvius |
|
The Lisbon earthquake |
|
A plague in Florence |
|
The Fall of Constantinople |
1 points
Question 28
In the Dante’s Divine Comedy, what number is a key to its organization and subject matter?
Answer
| Seven |
|
Three |
|
Five |
|
Four |
1 points
Question 29
Which collection of revelations is called the Recitation and is meant to be recited and not translated?
Answer
|
The Koran |
| Song of Roland |
1 points
Question 30
The Canterbury pilgrims travel to the site of the martyrdom of what saint?
Answer
|
John Donne |
|
Thomas a Becket |
1 points
Question 31
Who was the fourth-century African whose career seems to moderns to bridge the gap between ancient pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages?
Answer
|
Geoffrey Chaucer |
1 points
Question 32
What is the primary literary device used in Old English poetry?
Answer
|
Conceits |
|
Alliteration |
|
Terza Rima |
|
Rhyme |
1 points
Question 33
In the Divine Comedy, what do the three beast represent?
Answer
|
Pride, lust, anger |
|
Hell, purgatory, heaven |
|
Faith, hope, and charity |
|
Incontinence, violence and ambition, malice and fraud |
1 points
Question 34
The Middle Ages spans approximately one thousand years from 500-1500, from the classical civilation of Greece and Rome to the beginning of the
Answer
|
The Renaissance |
|
The Restoration |
|
The Baroque Age |
|
The Romantic Age |
1 points
Question 35
Which is an accurate description of the Middle Ages?
Answer
|
An age of chivalry |
|
All of the these |
|
An age of feudalism |
|
An age of faith |
S
ave and Submit
