Anglo-Saxons
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Vocabulary
100
This is a religious belief that there are many gods and spirits in nature.
What is Animism?
100
This is the name of the monster that attacks King Hrothgar's people.
Who is Grendel?
100
He wrote the Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
100
This is what Gawain uses to cut off the head of the Green Knight.
What is an axe?
100
This was both an economic system and a social system.
What is Feudalism?
200
This religion helped to unify the Anglo-Saxons.
What is Christianity?
200
This is the language in which Beowulf was originally written.
What is Anglo-Saxon (Old English)?
200
This is what the Pardoner sells, in the Pardoner's Tale.
What are indulgences and religious artificats?
200
This is how much time Gawain has to find the Green Knight.
What is one year?
200
The contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
What is Irony?
300
These things were found in a buried ship at Sutton-Hoo.
What are treasure and artifacts of Anglo-Saxon life?
300
This is how Beowulf kills Grendel.
What is tore his arm off?
300
This is who the rioters are searching for in The Pardoner's Tale.
Who is Death?
300
This is the symbol that Gawain has on the outside of his shield.
What is a Pentacle?
300
A type of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform.
What is Satire?
400
This is another term for the Anglo-Saxon language.
What is Old English?
400
She is Grendel's mother, and Beowulf kills her too.
Who is the Sea Hag?
400
In the Wife of Bath's Tale, the knight is accused of this crime.
What is rape?
400
This is what Gawain and the Lord of the castle agree to do.
What is exchange what they have received each day?
400
This became the basis for English Constitutional laws.
What is The Magna Carta?
500
This is a mythology that had much in common with the Anglo-Saxon belief in Animism.
What is Norse Mythology?
500
Eventually, when Beowulf is old, he is killed while fighting one of these.
What is a dragon?
500
In the Wife of Bath's Tale, if the knight can not answer Queen Guinevere's question, this is what will happen to him.
What is he will be executed?
500
She is King Arthur's half-sister, and the person who sent the Green Knight to Arthur's castle.
Who is Morgan Le-Fey?
500
This is the set of rules that all knights were supposed to live by.
What is The Code of Chivalry?
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