Medieval Period

Question 1

When did it begin?

Answer 1

Battle of Hastings

Question 2

What did church officials speak?

Answer 2

Latin or French

Question 3

What was the Feudal system?

Answer 3

People paid to work land and be protected.

Question 4

Feudal Hierarchy:

Answer 4

King
Bishop
Baron
Lord
Peasant

Question 5

Church

Answer 5

United Europe at the time

Question 6

Thomas Becket

Answer 6

Friend of Henry II
Rebelled against Henry II
Murdered by Henry’s knights

Question 7

Merchant Guild

Answer 7

Promoted town business

Question 8

Craft Guild

Answer 8

Protected workers

Question 9

Sanitation

Answer 9

Unsanitary conditions made growing cities a problem

Question 10

Common Law

Answer 10

Law that was common to the whole country, not just certain classes

Question 11

Law of Primogeniture

Answer 11

Give firstborn son exclusive right to inheritance

Question 12

Magna Carta

Answer 12

1215: King promised not to tax land without consulting the barons

Question 13

Chivalry

Answer 13

A system of honor on and off the battlefield

Question 14

Middle English

Answer 14

Combined French and Old English

Question 15

Exemplum

Answer 15

A story told as an example

Question 16

Satire

Answer 16

Writing to ridicule

Question 17

Legend

Answer 17

Anonymous stories about the past that may have been inspired by reality

Question 18

Irony

Answer 18

Surprising or interesting contradictions

Question 19

Romance

Answer 19

A story that represents remote or imaginative incidents rather than ordinary

Question 20

Direct Characterization

Answer 20

Directly describing a character

Question 21

Indirect Characterization

Answer 21

Showing a character’s traits