quiz 9 Flashcards
T/F: people were accustomed two having rats and fleas almost everywhere
True
T/F: during the plague, both divine and civil law were stringently enforced?
False
In what country was the peasant revolt of 1381?
England
Is the English one most battles during the hundred years war, why did they withdraw in 1429?
Financial and physical burden was too great
Which proved more detrimental to church prestige?
a. the Avignon papacy or b. The great schism
B. the great schism
What term is used to describe the emergence in art and literature of “a new Fidelity to nature and to personal experience in everyday world”?
Social realism
According to Philippa, whose consent must a just law have?
Those whom they effect
According to de Pisan, why do women usually know less than men?
They are not involved in many different situations
What event in 1204/5 led to the linguistic assimilation of the Norman nobility in England?
King John lost the French king
In what year did Edward III change the official language of the courts of law back to English?
1362
What percentage of Anglo-Saxon words survived into middle English?
25%
“Alliterative revival” poets ( the pearl poet) delineated line length with four stressed syllables. How does Chaucer indicate the end of the line?
Rhyme
What are the two basic steps in Chaucers strategy of humor?
- Positive generality 2. Specific negativity
T/F: the 24 tales Chaucer completed reflect a narrow range of story types and possible narrators?
False
With what is the Knights tunic all stained?
Rusty mail coats
What did the Squire right?
Songs
For what did the prioress cry “if it blood or was dead”?
A mouse
T/F: the monk adhered closely to the rules that were “old and somewhat strict”?
False
What did the friar do “for private begging turf”?
Laid out rent
of any money the student (Oxford clerk) scraped together, on what did it get spent?
I’m books in his learning
What would the wives of the five guildsmen like to be named/
My lady
With whom did Dr. of medicine have a profitable friendship not recently begun?
Apothecaries
How many times has the wife of Bath been married?
5
How did the Parson show how his sheep should live?
His own cleanliness
What didn’t mean for the Miller to have a thumb of gold, alright?
He was a cheater
What fine trade had the reeve learned as a young man?
A skilled carpenter
According to the summoner, what’s the only reason one should “here archdeacon’s curses?
Men’s souls were found in their purses
With what was the pardoners wallet, hot from Rome, stuffed to the brim?
Pardons
How many stories total, coming plus going, Was each pilgrim supposed to tell?
4
