The name of the literary time period in which Beowulf was composed.
What is the Anglo-Saxon Period?
100
The name of the part of speech that replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
100
This is the language in which The Canterbury Tales were originally written.
What is Middle English.
100
My sister ____________ me for the mess in her room.
A. Respited
B. Reproached
C. Brusqued
What is reproached?
100
The names of the three monster's Beowulf faces.
Who are Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon?
200
A poet who traveled from place to place reciting epics like Beowulf was called by this name.
What is a scop?
200
"Around," "about," "near," and "through," are all examples of this part of speech.
What is a preposition?
200
Chaucer finished OR did not finish all of the tales he originally planned.
What is "did not finish?"
200
I asked the teacher to show me ______________, and accept my late work.
A. Clemency
B. Jargon
C. Sagacious
What is clemency?
200
"Jamie sent four invitations for her birthday party, but three of them were returned." This is a ________________ sentence.
Choices: Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex
What is compound?
300
Both "stock epithets" and ___________ were used by the traveling poets to help "buy time" and add structure to their epics.
What are kennings?
300
"For," "and," "but," and "nor," are all examples of this part of speech.
What is a conjunction?
300
The primary purpose of the prologue:
A. Establish the narrator's tone. OR
B. Establish the characterization of the pilgrims.
What is "B: Establish the characterization of the pilgrims"?
300
Stoic people are often characterized as having an attitude of ______________.
A. Frivolous
B. Brevity
C. Nonchalance
What is nonchalance?
300
The title of this Kanye West song could most accurately describe the Wife of Bath from The Canterbury Tales.
What is "Gold digger?"
400
The original "written" version of Beowulf is credited to a group of _______________________.
Who are Christian monks?
400
A clause that contains a subject and a predicate, and expresses a complete thought.
What is an independent clause?
400
This is the city the pilgrims are traveling toward.
What is Canterbury?
400
I hope that my _________________ grow to be successful and kind-hearted people.
A. Heist
B. Brusque
C. Jargon
What is jargon?
400
The journey in The Canterbury Tales begins in the spring. Spring is normally symbolic of _________________.
What is birth, rebirth, or new life?
500
Beowulf contains several references to historical or biblical events. These are called _________________.
What are allusions?
500
A clause that does not express a complete thought, and relies on the clause following or preceding it in order to make sense.
What is a dependent clause?
500
The purpose of the pilgrim's travel.
What is religious pilgrimage? (To the shrine of St. Thomas Becket).
500
I was lucky enough to receive the honor of ______________ performance on the test.
A. Exemplary
B. Torpor
C. Fledgling
What is exemplary?
500
This is the name of Beowulf's "people," or the people of Beowulf's country.