This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Middle Ages – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Middle Ages Quiz 2 (5 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V? A) The Battle of Agincourt. B) The Battle of Hastings. C) The Norman Conquest. D) The War of the Roses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The War of the Roses. 2. Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450? A) The Normans. B) The Geats. C) The Anglo-Saxons. D) The Danes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Anglo-Saxons. 3. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with: A) Nostalgia and ill-concealed envy. B) Bewilderment and visceral loathing. C) Admiration and elegiac sympathy. D) Bigotry and shallow triumphalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Admiration and elegiac sympathy. 4. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the \textbackslash flowering\textbackslash of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers? A) Geoffrey of Monmouth. B) The Gawain poet. C) The Beowulf poet. D) Chr\'tien de Troyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Gawain poet. 5. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry? A) Sir Thomas Malory. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Caedmon. D) John Gower. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesMiddle Ages Quiz 116Th Century Quiz20Th Century QuizAges Era Period QuizAugustan Age QuizContemporary Literature QuizCultural And Literary In Modernity QuizEarly 17Th Century QuizEarly Middle Ages QuizElizabethan Drama QuizElizabethan Era QuizElizabethan Period QuizJacobean Era QuizMedieval Literature And Culture QuizMedieval Women Writers QuizRenaissance Literature QuizRestoration And 18Th Century QuizRestoration Eighteenth Century Drama QuizRomantic Era English Literature QuizRomantic Period QuizThe English Romantic QuizThe Renaissance QuizVictorian Age QuizVictorian Literature QuizVictorian Period Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books