English History / Shakespeare
The concept of "wyrd" in Old English poetry refers to:
Fate
The central object in the dream [The Rood] does what to the dreamer?
Speaks
In Middle English, "Cockaigne" or "Cockaygne" is what?
Paradise
In the Wife of Bath, the wife has married how many men?
5
In separate conversations, both Beatrice and Benedick vow never to do what?
Marry / Fall in Love
Which groups first brought Old English to Britain?
Anglo Saxons
In The Wife's Lament, the speaker repeatedly thinks about ____ and the seperation between them.
Her husband
Within this mystical palace, the monks all engage in what?
Sin
In the Tale, the Knight finds out that women most desire what?
Sovereignty over themselves.
When Claudio wrongly believes Don Pedro has stolen Hero, what does he immediately decide to do?
Abandon Hero forever / Shame her
Which two religious traditions mix/collide in much of Old English Literature?
Christian and Pagan
In The Wife's Lament, the speaker has been forced to live in a ____.
Cave
In the Chaucer Prologue, before leaving, they all gather where?
Tabard Inn
The Knight decides to do what about the wife at the end of the Tale?
Let her choose her life.
Throughout this Act, almost all characters referance (in one way or another) who?
Cupid
After the Normans invaded in 1066, which two languages merged to create the hybrid English of the late Middle Ages?
Old English and French
Both poems include speakers who experience _____.
Suffering
The pilgrims are traveling to Canterbury to do what?
The wife of Bath repeatedly challenges the idea that ____ should determine women's behavior.
Social Norms / Patriarchal Standards
After Hero faints, Friar Francis proposes that the family spread the report that Hero has ____ from the shock of the accusations.
Died
What was the name of the theatre where Shakespeare's plays were typically viewed? Who would stand where? When were typical performance times?
The Globe Theatre, nobles in galleries, "groundlings" in the pit, Daylight performances.
The central object in The Dream of The Rood is a?
Cross
The pilgrims are traveling during what time of the year?
Spring / April
At the end of the Tale, the old woman gives the knight a choice: she can remain ____ and be a _____ wife, or she become _____ but be an _____ wife.
Old/Ugly and be faithful, or, Young and be unfaithful.
When Beatrice and Benedick are finally alone together, Beatrice asks Benedick to prove his love by doing what?
Killing Claudio