Litterature Test: 1

Question 1

What were the years for the Anglo-Saxon period?

Answer 1

449-1066

Question 2

Who are the Celts?

Answer 2

Britons and Gaels

Question 3

When did Romans conquer Britain?

Answer 3

AD 43

Question 4

What did the Angles and Saxons call the area?

Answer 4

Angle-land

Question 5

How did Christianity spread to the land?

Answer 5

Through Missionaries

Question 6

When Germanic tribes took over the area, who defeated the Danes?

Answer 6

Alfred the Great

Question 7

Who united the tribes?

Answer 7

King Egbert

Question 8

What is another name for the Norse?

Answer 8

Vikings

Question 9

Who defeated the Danes and united England under his rule?

Answer 9

King Alfred

Question 10

When was written language created?

Answer 10

600’s

Question 11

Before written language, who memorized stories and where were they recited?

Answer 11

Bards and poets. Mead halls.

Question 12

Where were most manuscripts produced?

Answer 12

Monasteries

Question 13

Where was most Old English literature translated from?

Answer 13

Latin sources

Question 14

What groups spoke what languages?

Answer 14

French - Aristocracy
Latin - Church
English - Common man

Question 15

What was the propose of the Crusades?

Answer 15

To rid Jerusalem of Muslims

Question 16

When was the Magna Carta signed and who signed it?

Answer 16

1215 by King John

Question 17

Who fought in the Hundred Years War?

Answer 17

France and England

Question 18

Where did Grendal’s mother live?

Answer 18

In the lake

Question 19

Why did the dragon attack the people?

Answer 19

Someone stole a golden cup from him

Question 20

What did the people do with the dragon’s treasue?

Answer 20

Put it in the tower

Question 21

Who was the King of the Danes?

Answer 21

Hrothgar

Question 22

Who conqured England?

Answer 22

Rome

Question 23

How were stories told?

Answer 23

Oraly

Question 24

What was the focus of Anglo-Saxon stories?

Answer 24

Male warriors

Question 25

What killed a 1/4 of England’s population?

Answer 25

Black Death

Question 26

What did land equal in the Feudal system?

Answer 26

Wealth

Question 27

Where did people move to after the Black Death?

Answer 27

Cities

Question 28

Which two positions had a power struggle?

Answer 28

King vs. Pope

Question 29

Who came to Beowulf’s aide during the fight with the dragon?

Answer 29

Wiglaf

Question 30

How many people went with Beowulf to kill the dragon?

Answer 30

15

Question 31

What was Gilgamesh’s friend’s name?

Answer 31

Enkidu

Question 32

Was Beowulf young or old when the story took place?

Answer 32

Old