History
Literary Terms
Literary Works
People
Hodgepodge
100
The significance of the year 1066.
What is the year of the Norman Invasion?
100
Two characteristics of the medieval ballads.
What are the following: song-like, with definite rhyme and meter; a simple, dramatic episode; an air of mystery; often written in quatrains
100
January and May
What is "The Merchant's Tale"?
100
The Father of English Poetry.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
100
"The Great Charter"--King John was forced to sign it in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
200
The name of the civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster.
What are the Wars of the Roses?
200
The name for a line or a part of a line that occurs throughout a poem.
What is a refrain?
200
Three rioters and some gold.
What is "The Pardoner's Tale"?
200
The leader of the Norman forces which defeated the Saxons, led by King Harold.
Who is William the Conqueror?
200
An example of the importance of the number three in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
What is the number of days of the bargain at the lord's castle and the attempted swings of the ax by the Green Knight?
300
The name of the hierarchical socioeconomic system of the Middle Ages--built upon reciprocal arrangements between social classes.
What is feudalism?
300
Which piece of medieval literature contains a narrative frame?
What is The Canterbury Tales?
300
What women truly want is sovereignty or power.
What is "The Wife of Bath's Tale"?
300
His claim to fame was that he compiled and arranged the stories of King Arthur in Le Morte d'Arthur.
Who is Thomas Malory?
300
Definition of chivalry.
What is the code of knightly courtesy?
400
These organizations were similar to today's labor unions.
What are guilds (merchant guilds, craftsmen guilds, and so on)?
400
Which literary genre focuses on tales of knights and chivalry?
What is the medieval romance?
400
Which medieval romance is written in prose?
What is Le Morte d'Arthur?
400
"The once and future king"
Who is King Arthur?
400
The three languages that make up Middle English.
What are Anglo-Saxon (English), Latin, and French?
500
A positive effect of the Crusades.
What is the opening of trade routes to the East?
500
Definition of allegory and an example that we read.
What is a literary work which is made up of a series of related symbols, and Everyman?
500
Two of the Pardoner's character traits.
What are greed and hypocrisy?
500
For what sin did Henry II undertake a pilgrimage to Canterbury?
The murder of Thomas Becket?
500
Two supernatural elements in the Arthurian legend
What are the the Lady of the Lake, Merlin the Magician, the magic surrounding the conception of Arthur, the sword and the stone episode, etc.
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