This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Medieval > Medieval Literature And Culture – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Medieval Literature And Culture Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How did the Normans revolutionize English poetry? A) They introduced alliterative verse. B) They introduced rhyming octosyllabic couplets. C) They introduced iambic pentameter. D) They introduced metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They introduced rhyming octosyllabic couplets. 2. Which of the following characteristics are not essential to knightly chivalry as described by Chretien de Troyes? A) The knight is religious. B) The knight is submissive to his lad. C) The knight is dedicated to his feudal lord. D) The knight is blond, tall, and elegant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The knight is blond, tall, and elegant. 3. Between which movements do historians situate literature in the Middle Ages? A) English Reformation and Elizabethan Age. B) Civil war and the Restoration. C) Roman departure and the Renaissance. D) Romanticism and the Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roman departure and the Renaissance. 4. Which of the following texts provides the best example of medieval estates satire? A) "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". B) "Piers Plowman". C) "The Canterbury Tales". D) "The Book of Margery Kempe". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The Canterbury Tales". 5. "The Second Shepherds' Play" is part of which play cycle? A) Cornish cycle. B) York cycle. C) Roman cycle. D) Wakefield cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wakefield cycle. 6. Which of the following epic themes are invoked in The Wanderer? A) Exile. B) Abandoned mead-halls. C) Loneliness. D) All of these answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these answers. 7. Which of the following texts are associated with the alliterative revival? A) "The Dream of the Rood". B) "The Wanderer". C) "The Seafarer". D) "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". 8. Complete the following statement. Chaucer wrote his elegiac poem, "The Book of the Duchess, " to praise the young Duchess of Lancaster who tragically died of: A) The Black Plague. B) Unrequited love for John of Gaunt. C) Drowning in the Thames. D) Childbirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Black Plague. 9. Which of the following characters from "The Canterbury Tales" might represent the rising middle-class of the 14th century? A) The merchant. B) The knight. C) The prioress. D) The plowman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The merchant. 10. Which of the following provides an example of the oral-formulaic tradition? A) Caedmon's Hymn. B) Beowulf. C) The Wanderer. D) The Dream of the Rood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Dream of the Rood. 11. What is the verse form of Marie de France's Lanval? A) Dactylic pentameter. B) Octosyllabic couplets. C) Heroic couplets. D) Clerihew. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Octosyllabic couplets. 12. What led to the alliterative revival? A) A return to reading poetry from the 11th and 12th centuries. B) The influence of southern courtly poets writing in French and Latin. C) A surge in English nationalism. D) The introduction to new poetic forms during the Norman invasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A surge in English nationalism. 13. Which of the following themes is not explored in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" ? A) The knightly ideal. B) Conversion to Christianity. C) Sexual purity. D) Feudal loyalty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conversion to Christianity. 14. In Beowulf, what is the significance of wergild? A) Wergild is connected to the idea that bloodshed leads to more bloodshed. B) Wergild contributes to the claustrophobic, doom-laden atmosphere. C) Wergild relates to the concept of wyrd. D) All of these answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these answers. 15. Which of the following texts provides the best example of the comitatus ethic? A) Caedmon's Hymn. B) The Battle of Maldon. C) The Canterbury Tales. D) The Dream of the Rood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Battle of Maldon. 16. Which of the following are characteristics of a medieval romance? A) Episodic French and German poetry. B) Resemblance to an epic. C) Supernatural themes involving dragons and monsters. D) All of these answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these answers. 17. Which of the following cultural changes occurred as a result of the Norman invasion? A) The Church moved away from using Latin. B) The trend of educational reforms was reversed. C) England returned to its pre-feudal state. D) The primary language became French. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The primary language became French. 18. In Caedmon's Hymn, the poet borrows the language of which literary form? A) The mock epic. B) The lyric ballad. C) The lai. D) The heroic epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The lai. 19. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Old English? A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Caesura. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romance. 20. Which of the following is the best example of a morality play? A) "The Seafarer". B) "Everyman". C) "The Second Shepherds' Play". D) "The Dream of the Rood". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Everyman". ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesMedieval Literature And Culture Quiz 1Medieval Literature And Culture Quiz 3Medieval Women Writers Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books