Middle English Test

Question 1

Married 5 times

Answer 1

Wife of bath

Question 2

Product of Druid myth

Answer 2

Green Knight

Question 3

Father of English poetry

Answer 3

Chaucer

Question 4

Second most developed character in the Canterbury tales

Answer 4

Pardoner

Question 5

Commissioned the doomsday book

Answer 5

William the conqueror

Question 6

Innkeeper

Answer 6

Chaucer

Question 7

Has a moral code but can’t adhere to it

Answer 7

Pardoner

Question 8

Compared to the old woman

Answer 8

Wife of bath

Question 9

Little or no concern about religious matters

Answer 9

Pardoner

Question 10

Brags about marriages

Answer 10

Wife of bath

Question 11

Spent 20 years in prison

Answer 11

Sit Thomas Malory

Question 12

A near perfect hero

Answer 12

Sir Gawain

Question 13

Had Malory’s work published after his death

Answer 13

William Caxton

Question 14

Never mentions Christianity and his tale

Answer 14

Pardoner

Question 15

Brought feudalism

Answer 15

William the conqueror

Question 16

The most developed character in the prologue

Answer 16

Wife of bath

Question 17

What happened in 1095

Answer 17

The crusades began

Question 18

What was signed in 1215

Answer 18

Magma Carta

Question 19

What began in 1348

Answer 19

The black plague

Question 20

What was the date the first book was published

Answer 20

1475

Question 21

What are the two changes the Black Death brought

Answer 21

Freed the serfs and ended feudalism

Question 22

First serious poet to write in English

Answer 22

Chaucer

Question 23

Two major themes of the tales

Answer 23

Unfaithful wife & impatient and suffering woman

Question 24

What do we call the framework for the tales

Answer 24

Prologue

Question 25

How did Chaucer most often define characters

Answer 25

By their best qualities

Question 26

Chaucer wanted there to be ___ tales but he only completed ___

Answer 26

116; 24

Question 27

The wife of bath defends _____

Answer 27

Female sexuality

Question 28

The old woman defends _____ and _____

Answer 28

Poverty and low status

Question 29

The wife of bath story is like a _____ where a _____ leads to a magical transformation

Answer 29

Fairytale; kiss

Question 30

What are the two distinct narratives woven into Arthurian legends

Answer 30

A mortal challenge and an erotic temptation

Question 31

The two major types of ballads

Answer 31

Folk and literary

Question 32

What two kinds of ballads does Edward, Edward fall under

Answer 32

International and conversational

Question 33

What two kinds of ballads is Lord Randall

Answer 33

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Question 34

The pardoner’s tale is a story about 3 _____ who go looking for _____ after they are told he killed their friend

Answer 34

Hoodlums; death

Question 35

Name 4 literary forms that were dominant

Answer 35

Epics, romances, allegories, and ballads

Question 36

Name 4 literary genres present in the Canterbury tales

Answer 36

Fables, religious allegories, moral tales, vulgar sexual farces

Question 37

How is the pardoner’s tale ironic

Answer 37

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Question 38

Name 4 elements of romance

Answer 38

Near perfect hero, quest, supernatural events, and evil enemy

Question 39

Summarize get up and bar the door

Answer 39

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Question 40

Know three elements of a romantic hero and how they apply to Arthurian legend

Answer 40

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Question 41

Defeated the Anglo Saxon King

Answer 41

William the conqueror