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English Literature - Test 1
(The Old English Period, the Middle English Period)
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1. The Anglo-Saxon letters, carved on stone and wood, were called :
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runes
cuneiform
hieroglyphs
signs
2. The first English Christian poet known by name is :
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Cynewulf
Caedmon
Alcuin
Langland
3. The Venerable Bede wrote mostly in :
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Anglo-Saxon
Celtic
Old English
Latin
4. Beowulf is a young knight of :
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the Danes
the Angles
the Geats (or Jutes)
the Celts
5. The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", a history of England beginning with the arrival of Christianity, was begun in the court of :
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William the Conqueror
Egbert
Alfred the Great
John Lackland
6. The Celts :
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worshipped nature
believed in one god
were Christians
didn't believe in gods
7. The Anglo-Saxons were of :
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Celtic origin
Germanic origin
Latin origin
Slavonic origin
8. Julius Caesar came to Britain :
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in the first century A.D.
in the second century B.C.
in the second century A.D.
in the first century B.C.
9. The "Celtic Sagas" :
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were written down by the Celts in ancient times
were written down by the Romans
were written down in the Middle Ages
tell stories of Christian martyrs and saints
10. The language of the Church all over Europe in the Anglo-Saxon times was :
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Anglo-Saxon
French
Latin
Celtic
11. William, Duke of Normandy, defeated the English in :
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1099
1066
1166
1056
12. The first work that mentioned King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, "Le Roman de Brut ", was completed in 1155 by :
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Wace
Layaman
Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas Malory
13. The man who translated the Bible into English was :
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William Langland
Sir Thomas Malory
John Wyclif(fe)
Caedmon
14. The heroic poem "Gododdin" survived only in :
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Latin translation
Anglo-Saxon translation
German translation
Welsh translation
15. Romances were :
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short religious writings
legends about gods
adventure stories in verse about battles and heroes
ballads about common people
16. Old English is the English language of the period :
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before the Norman Conquest
after the Norman Conquest
before Roman Britain
of establishing Celtic culture
17. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in :
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London
Canterbury
Oxford
York
18. Geoffrey Chaucer's masterpiece is :
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"The Romance of the Rose"
"The Legend of Good Women"
"The Canterbury Tales"
"Piers Plowman"
19. At Canterbury Cathedral there is the shrine of :
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the Venerable Bede
Thomas Becket
King Arthur
Geoffrey Chaucer
20. Chaucer's most famous character is :
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the Wife of Bath
the Knight
the Parson
the Pardoner
21. Chaucer's creative work can be divided into :
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three periods
four periods
two periods
one period
22. Robin Hood is said to have lived during the rule of King :
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William I
Henry I
Richard I
James I
23. A manuscript copy of Sir Thomas Malory's work "Le Morte D'Arthur" was found at :
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Winchester College
Canterbury Cathedral
Winchester Cathedral
Glastonbury Abbey
24. The word that was not used by the English-speaking farmers after the Norman Conquest was :
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cow
sheep
beef
swine
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