Question 1
Which cultures and languages were important during the Middle Ages?
Answer
The Christian culture in Latin |
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The Islamic culture in Arabic |
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The Germanic culture in Old English |
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All of these |
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Question 2
The woman who represent divine love to
Dante
is named
Answer
Lucia |
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Francesca |
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Mona Lisa |
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Beatrice |
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Question 3
Which of the following is an example of kenning?
Answer
triumph-tree |
swift word |
keel |
wyrd |
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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
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Question 5
Which of the following in NOT an Old English work?
Answer
The Canterbury Tales |
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“The Wanderer” |
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The Dream of the Rood |
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Beowulf |
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Question 6
Who was the legendary literary figure, a Romanized Celt, said to have resisted the Germanic invaders/mercenaries?
Answer
Hrothgar the Horrible |
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Augustine of Hippo |
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King Arthur |
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Alfred the Great |
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Question 7
What Roman poet does Dante select as his guide and inspiration?
Answer
Augustine |
Virgil |
Marcus Aurelius |
Ovid |
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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 |
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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. |
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Question 10
What verse form was created for the Divine Comedy?
Answer
The Ballad |
The Sonnet |
Terza rima |
Heroic Couplet |
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Question 11
The Divine Comedy was written in
Answer
Verse in Italian |
Middle English |
Prose in Latin |
Old English |
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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 |
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Question 13
During the Old English Period, who invaded Britannia (England)?
Answer
The Jutes |
the Danes / Scandinavians |
The Angles and the Saxons |
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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 |
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Question 15
The Canterbury pilgrims travel during
Answer
summer |
late fall |
winter |
early spring |
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Question 16
Who wrote the the sixth-century classic The Consolation of Philosophy ?
Answer
Boethius |
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St. Augustine |
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King Alfred the Great |
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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 |
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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 |
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Question 19
How many tales are in the Canterbury Tales collection?
Answer
About two dozen |
One Thousand and One |
One Hundred |
One Hundred Twenty |
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Question 20
What emperor established Christianity as virtually the official religion of the Roman empire?
Answer
Constantine |
Nero |
Herod |
Caesar Augustus |
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Question 21
The “I” character in The Canterbury Tales is a person named
Answer
Geoffrey |
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Dante | |
Giovanni |
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Question 22
How many tales in the Decameron?
Answer
One hundred twenty |
Thirty-three |
One hundred organized over ten days |
One thousand and one |
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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 |
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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 |
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Question 25
The Decameron is written in what form and language?
Answer
In Latin |
In Spanish |
In prose in Italian |
In verse in French |
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Question 26
The Canterbury Tales is written is what language?
Answer
In Middle English |
In classical Latin |
In Italian in verse. |
In Old English |
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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 |
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Question 28
In the Dante’s Divine Comedy, what number is a key to its organization and subject matter?
Answer
Seven |
Three |
Five |
Four |
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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 |
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Question 30
The Canterbury pilgrims travel to the site of the martyrdom of what saint?
Answer
John Donne |
Thomas a Becket |
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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 |
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Question 32
What is the primary literary device used in Old English poetry?
Answer
Conceits |
Alliteration |
Terza Rima |
Rhyme |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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