1) What is the fisrt period of English literature? a) Middle English b) Old English c) Modern English 2) Which of these literary works belong to Old English? a) The canterbury tale b) Sir Gawain c) The junius manuscript d) Romeo and Juliet e) The beowful manuscript 3) Chivarlry... a) Was a code of coduct of the Knights b) code that prescribed the behavior of women of the nobility and their lovers during the later Middle Ages. 4) Who wrote the Canterbury tales? a) Bede b) Shakespeare c) Chaucer 5) It is an anonymous piece of poetry of just over 2500 lines. It tells the story of the young Gawain, who is a knight at the legendary court of King Arthur. The poem opens with a description of a Christmas feast at Camelot, the Arthurian court. During the feast a mysterious knight, with green hair and green skin, riding a green horse, arrives and challenges the assembled crowd to a bizarre game, which sets off a chain of events in which Gawain faces trials and temptations. What is the name of this story? a) The canterbury tale b) Sir Gwain and the Green Night c) The beowful manuscript 6) Who is the most famous author known by his sonnets and playwrites? a) Chaucer b) Shakespeare c) Bede 7) What are some characteristics about Shakespeare's sonnets? a) They are 14 lines poems b) The rhyme scheme is regular c) The sonnets conclude in quatrains d) The fourteen lines are divided into four subgroups 8) How is also called the old english period? a) The norman period b) The viking period c) The anglosaxon period d) The germanic period 9) ......... was part of a movement in the Middle Ages to write in what's called the vernacular. a) Shakespeare b) Chaucer

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