Literature Test 1

Question 1

When did the Middle Ages begin

Answer 1

When Germanic tribes invaded England in 1455

Ended when Henry 7th 1485 of the Tudor House was crowned king

Question 2

The term Dark Ages

Answer 2

A name given this period by 18th century rationalists because of the spiritual decline fostered by the influence of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 3

A period of constant change

Answer 3

The Middle Ages

Question 4

The Roman invasion of England

Answer 4

Began in 55 BC
With Julius Caesar
Continued 100 years, total control under Claudius

Question 5

Celts were conquered by whom

Answer 5

The Germanic people of the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons conquered the celts after the Romans left and then named the land Whales

Question 6

English clergy chose which Catholicism

Answer 6

Roman.

Monasteries we’re then made in Wearmouth and Jarrow

Question 7

Anglican Church organization was influenced by what

Answer 7

Roman Catholicism

Question 8

The Ecclesiastical History of the English people

Answer 8

Traces the development of Catholicism throughout England,

The second counselor uses the illustration of a sparrow to portray the frailty of life

Question 9

“Caedmon’s Hymn”: part of the Ecclesiastical History

Answer 9

The subject of his hymn is creation

Question 10

2 features of Old-English poetry

Answer 10

Variation

Periphrastic epithet

Question 11

Variation

Answer 11

The repetition of an idea in different words with the same grammatical form

Question 12

Periphrastic epithet

Answer 12

Expression of an idea in a roundabout, more elegant way

Question 13

Kenning

Answer 13

A specific form of periphrastic epithet, which is a metamorphic compound of two words, such as “whalepath” for sea

Question 14

Beowulf is the…

Answer 14

Oldest surviving long poem in a modern European language

Question 15

The — has replaced the —

Answer 15

Novel… epic

Question 16

Social Setting of Beowulf

Answer 16

Contemporary England

Question 17

Geographic setting of Beowulf

Answer 17

Scandinavia

Question 18

Beowulf is what type of literary work

Answer 18

Folk epic

Question 19

Epic:

Answer 19

A long, Styleyes narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national hero

Question 20

More on epics:

Answer 20

Typically didactic (concerned with teaching)
Two types:
Folk and literary epics

The novel has replaced the epic

Question 21

Struggles of “Beowulf”

Answer 21

Reflect the universal conflict of good and evil

Question 22

Main theme of “Beowulf”

Answer 22

The continuance of civilization requires virtuous heroes

Question 23

The gloomy tone of Beowulf results from…

Answer 23

His ability to to conquer the external enemies, but he has no remedy for man’s internal evils.

Question 24

Comitataus

Answer 24

The Scandinavian honor system during the fifth and sixth century between a king and his thanes

Question 25

Figurative language

Answer 25

Alliteration
Kennings
Litotes

Question 26

Alliteration

Answer 26

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 27

Litotes

Answer 27

A type of understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
(A positive statement stating in a negative way)

Question 28

Ecgtheow

Answer 28

Beowulf’s father

Question 29

Wyrd

Answer 29

The Anglo-Saxon term for fate

Question 30

The fight between Grendel and Beowulf

Answer 30

Beowulf depends on his strength in hand to hand combat against Grendel
Mortally wounds Grendel by tearing off his arm
Beowulf suspends Grendel’s arm from the roof

Question 31

King Alfred

Answer 31

The most responsible for beginning of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle

Question 32

Doomsday book:

Answer 32

Record of all the property owned in England