John, Nicholas and Emily are characters from a) Chaucers The Knights Tale b) Chaucers The Millers Tale

c) Chaucers The Wife of Baths Tale d) None of the above is correct The Manuscript of Beowulf dates back to a) the 10th century b) the 4th century c) the 5th century d) the 4th century B.C. Not all, I think, for dread / But some of courteous grace / Let him how was their head / Be spokesman in that place is taken from a) An alliterative poem of the 14th century b) A wheel c) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight d) All of the above are correct

Thames and dun are words of a) Saxon origin b) Pict origin c) Celtic origin d) None of the above is correct

The long love that in my thought doth harbour is the title of a sonnet by a) Shakespeare b) Sir Thomas Wyatt 1557 c) Surrey d) a) and b) are correct Hrothgar means a) Providencial ruler b) Glory-spear c) All of the above are correct d) None of the above is correct

Mores Utopia was written (Book 2 1515, Book 1, 1516) a) In 1615 b) In 1556 c) In 1456 d) In 1516 abab bcbc cdcd ee is the typical rhyme scheme of a) the English sonnet b) the Spenserian sonnet c) the Shakespearean sonnet d) a) and c) are correct In 1371, due to the plague, average age of marriage for men was a) 35

b) 30 c) 14 d) 24 The payment usually demanded of a person or kin guilty of homicide in order to eliminate the moral duty of revenge, in early Germanic law, is called e) Wyrd f) Wergild g) Hrothgar h) None of the above is correct

The plot of Beowulf dates back to

a) b) c) a) b) c) d)

the 12thcentury the 3rd century

the 5th century d) None of the above is correct The sonnet entitled Loving in trueth, and fayne in verse my loue to show (Sonnet 1) was written by Thomas Wyatt the elder, in the late 15th Century Philip Sidney, 'Astrophil and Stella, 1. late 16th Century Henry Howard, in the late 16th Century William Shakespeare, in the late 16th Century

The Roman de la Rose is a major source of a) Mores Utopia b) Chaucers The Wife of Baths Tale c) Chaucers Truth d) None of the above is correct In Chaucers The Millers Tale, Alisoun is in love with e) Absolon f) John g) Nicholas h) a) and c) are correct Helice, in Spensers Sonnet XXXIV, is e) Penelope Deveraux f) Penelope Rich g) Both a) and b) are correct h) None of the above is correct A rhetorical figure commonly used by More in his 'Utopia' to put forth ambiguous statements is e) Simile f) Metaphor

g)

Litotes (ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary)

h) Sarcasm The theme of the rapist-knight prosecuted and condemned is discussed in e) William Langlands Piers the Plowman f) William Shakespeares sonnets g) Geoffrey Chaucers Wife of Baths Tale h) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The 14th century Englands life span was: F 29/M 28 Average Marriage? F 14/ M 24 Love that doth reign and live within my thought belongs to: a) Spenser b) Henry Howard c) Thomas Wyatt d) Philip Sidney Who's the character that Emily marries in The Knights Tale? a) Arcite b) Palamon c) Nicholas d) None of the above is correct 6) The Manuscript of Beowulf was written by: a) A 5th century warrior, originally from Mercia b) William Langland around 1400 c) Bede around 1000 d) One or two Christian monks around 1000 7) Power of endurance, repression of sentiment and common-sense are characteristics of: a) Celts d) Normans c) Anglo-Saxons d) None of the above. 8) The Millers Tale can be considered: a) Exemplum b) Fabilaux c) Burlesque d) All of the above 9) Mores Utopia was written : a) The first book before the second b) After the Discovery of America The second before the first in 1516 d) None of the above

c)

The etymology of More's utopia evokes a) place of goodness, happiness and well-being b) a place that does not exist, cannot exist c) a place where monarchy has become a fair system of governent d) a and b correct abab cdcd efef gg rhyme: a) English sonnet b) Spenserian sonnet c) Shakespeare sonnet

d) A and c Examples of genres in the Miller's tale are a) satire b) fabliau c) burlesque d) all The composition of the earliest great epic poem in the Anglo- Saxon world dates back to a) 5th c b) 1089 c) 8th c d) 1145 Absalon and Nicholas are characters of a) b) c) d) general prologue bath piers the plowman none

And time that gave doth now his gift confound (y el tiempo que dio, ahora quita is

a)
b) Surrey c) Petrarch d) Spenser

Shakespeare (sonnet 60)

A psychoanalytical reading of Utopia has suggested that the form of the isle resembles a) a river that carries no water b) a womans womb c) castle d) dove of peace The structure octet+sestet abbaabba-cdecde/cdcdcd corresponds to a) English sonnet b) Spenser c) Shakespeare d) Petrarch In the couplet structure of OE poetry a) each unit has two heavily stressed syllables b) each unit has a fairly free number of unstressed syllables c) a and b are correct d) none of the above

Utopia, Book II was written in a) 1435 b) after book I c) before book I d) 1545
Mores utopian commonwealth is a) monarchy under king utopos b) a republic under a triunvirate c) a dictatorship after Utopos' Constitution d) a and c are correct 1) John, Nicholas and Emily are characters from i) Chaucers The Knights Tale

j) Chaucers The Millers Tale k) Chaucers The Wife of Baths Tale l) None of the above is correct Not all, I think, for dread / But some of courteous grace / Let him how was their head / Be spokesman in that place is taken from (mock exam Jan 2012 para identificar y traducir)

a)

An alliterative poem of the 14th century b) A wheel c) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight d) All of the above are correct Thames and dun are words of e) Saxon origin f) Pict origin g) Celtic origin h) None of the above is correct In 14thc England average life expectancy was a) about 29 women b) abot 28 men c) both a and b d) about 35 women 33 men

2) m) n) o) p)

The Tudor period began in 1066 and ended in 1400 began in 1400 and ended in 1604 began in 1485 and ended in 1603 none of the above is correct

The plot of Beowulf dates back to

e) the 10 century f)the 4 century g) the 5 century h) the 4 century B.C.

th th th th

3) O.E. dies

e) in the 10 century f)in the 11 century g) in the 12 century h) in the 5 century B.C.
th th th th

Arcite is a character from i) Sidneys Astrophel and Stella j) Chaucers Wife of Bath's Tale k) Chaucers General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales l) None of the above is correct The long love that in my thought doth harbour is the title of a sonnet by * i) Shakespeare j) Spenser k) Sir Thomas Wyatt (1557) l) b) and c) are correct Helice, in Spensers Sonnet 34, is i) Penelope Deveraux j) Penelope Rich k) All of the above are correct l) None of the above is correct Beowulf i) dies while fighting against the dragon, who wins in the end j) is defeated by Grendels mother k) defeats Grendel and beheads him

l) none of the above is correct

Norman Britain a) began in 1066 and ended in 1485 b) began in 410 and ended in 1603 c) began in 1066 and ended in 1145 d) none correct

2) Plot of Beowulf dates back to

a) b) c) d)

the 10th century the 4th century the 5th century the 4th century BC

4. In OE 'wyrd' means: a. beauty b. passion c. fate d. revenge 5. Hrothgar a) Geatish name that means glory spear b) Germanic scope from Hapax Legomena c) Is the man of the Geats in Beowulf d) Is a compound name that means glory-spear 6. Absalon and Nicholas are characters from a) Sidney's defence of poesy b) Chaucers GPCT c) Chaucer's 'The Millers Tale' d) Knight tales 7. 'Where whenas death shall all the world subdew, our love shall lieu, and later life renew' (couplet: dnde y cundo quiera que la muerte subyugue, nuestro amor perdurar y renovar una vida nueva) a) shakes sonnet CLXXXVIII b) surreys translation of Petrarch c) Spenser's sonnet LXXV (75) 8. Translation error from the Latin original into English led critics to believe that Mores Utopia was a kingdom a) regina b) dux c) anydus d) none correct 9. Structure octet+sestet abbabbacdecde/cdcdcd a) English sonnet b) Spenserian sonnet c) Shakes sonnet d) Petrarch sonne 11. Palomon and Arcite in Chaucers The knight's tale a) dukes of Athens b) tyrans of thebes c) young thebas of royal blood d) brothers of creom, tryrant of thebes 1. The anglo-saxon conquest of great Britain is dated a) 1485 b) 55bc c) 8ad d) 449 2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight dates back to

a) b) c) d)

14thc 13thc 16thc 11thbc

Love, that doth reign and live within my thought, a) sonnet sir Thomas Wyatt b) poem William langland c) sonnet by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1557) d) all of the above correct John, Alison, Nicholas and Absolon are characters from a) The Wife of Bath's Tale b) The Miller's tale (TCT) c) The knight's tale d) none 3 quatrains rhyming abab cdcd efef and a closing rhymed heroic couplet gg a) Spenserian sonnet b) English sonnet c) Petrarch sonnet d) A and c are correct The first great compilation of Sonnets is Tottle's Miscelaneous (1557)

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