4: Literary Periods of English Literature

Question 1

What is the river by Germany?

Answer 1

Elbe River

Question 2

Low German tribes are related more closely to the ________

Answer 2

Modern Dutch

Question 3

Were the people uncivilized or savages?

Answer 3

uncivilized

Question 4

Were the people adventurous seafarers or pirates?

Answer 4

Adventurous Seafarers

Question 5

Their literature shows that

Answer 5

loved Homes
reverenced Women
felt influences of Nature
believe in their Gods
loved personal Freedom
sought Honor and Glory

Question 6

What was their life like in the Old English Period?

Answer 6

Gloomy

Question 7

Denmark and Germany are lands of ____ and ____

Answer 7

Cloud and Mist

Question 8

How many times can the sun be seen above the horizon?

Answer 8

3 times a year

Question 9

What time of day in the winter does darkness come in?

Answer 9

Middle of the Afternoon

Question 10

The people was ____ and ____ race with melancholy ideas of life and fate

Answer 10

Stern and Somber

Question 11

A man who held land granted by the king or by a military noblemen, ranking between and ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble

Answer 11

Thane

Question 12

Title and rank of British nobility

Answer 12

Earl

Question 13

Entertainer proficient in juggling, acrobatics, music, and recitation

Answer 13

Gleeman or Jongleur

Question 14

What do they call the poets in their time?

Answer 14

Scop

Question 15

A collection of tribes which originated in central Europe

Answer 15

Celts

Question 16

The people who inhabited Britain/England before the Anglo-Saxon

Answer 16

Celts

Question 17

Indo-European family of races which had spread in France, Spain, and British islands before history was recorded

Answer 17

Celts

Question 18

They resisted the Anglo-Saxon invaders the best they could

Answer 18

Celts

Question 19

Where were the Celts driven back by the Anglo-Saxons?

Answer 19

In the mountains of Wales and Scotland

Question 20

These people and the Anglo-Saxons, had their traditional literature of myth, heroic story, and legend which had a large influence in the development of English literature.

Answer 20

Britons

Question 21

True or False. The early forms of literature are not known because they are not written in manuscripts

Answer 21

True

Question 22

What were the religion of the Anglo-Saxons before Christianity?

Answer 22

Paganism

Question 23

How man years after the Anglo-Saxons conquered Britain that they remained pagans?

Answer 23

150 Years

Question 24

What was Gregory?

Answer 24

A Monk

Question 25

The person who spread Christianity in Rome and became the pope

Answer 25

Gregory

Question 26

Was sent to southern England and converted the Angles to Christians

Answer 26

St. Augustine

Question 27

Was then the center of religion and learning

Answer 27

Ireland

Question 28

The first Christian literature that grew up in the north during the seventh century. He was a poor and ignorant man

Answer 28

Caedmon

Question 29

One important monastery in the northeast of York

Answer 29

Whitby

Question 30

When was England invaded by the Normans?

Answer 30

1066

Question 31

Who led the invasion of England during the Middle English Period

Answer 31

William of Normandy

Question 32

Who was the last of the Saxons Kings

Answer 32

Harold

Question 33

The Normans were allied to them by blood

Answer 33

Danes

Question 34

What was formed when the two races of Normans and Saxons were merged

Answer 34

Englishman

Question 35

The language of learning during the beginning of the Modern English

Answer 35

Latin

Question 36

The language of the court and polite society during the beginning of the Modern English

Answer 36

French

Question 37

The language of the common people during the beginning of the Modern English

Answer 37

Saxon

Question 38

Three dialects of Saxon

Answer 38

Northumbrian Midland Southern

Question 39

What dialect became the basis of Modern English?

Answer 39

Midland

Question 40

Whose time was it when Midland dialect became the basis of Modern English?

Answer 40

Chaucer