The Middle Ages
The Sixteenth Century
The Seventeenth Century
Name that piece!
100

The name of the original monster in Beowulf?

What is Grendel?

100

In Twelfth Night, 

Why does Viola disguise herself as a man?

to find work

100

Paradise Lost exists in a world where everyone was

a. innocent

b. guilty

c. dying

d. sinful

a. innocent

100

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since

Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?

What is The Flea by John Donne

200

Which of the following quotations from Beowulf contains a kenning?

a.

“And all at once the greedy she-wolf . . .”

b.

“At last he saw the mud of the bottom.”

c.

“He was hunting another / Dead monster . . .”

d.

“Grendel’s mother / Is hidden in her terrible home . . .”

a.

“And all at once the greedy she-wolf . . .”

200

In Twelfth Night

Who tricks Malvolio into thinking that Olivia loves him?

Maria

200
In Pilgrim's Progress, what is the narrative framed as?

What is a dream?

200

If I have pleasures for a friend,

And farther love in store,

What wrong has he whose joys did end,

And who could give no more?

What is Marriage a la Mode by John Dryden

300

How long does Gawain stay at Bertilak’s castle?

What is six nights

300

highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression

What is metaphysical poetry

300

In Pilgrim's Progress, which of Christian's neighbors refuses to accompany him on his journey to the Celestial City?

Who is Obstinate

300

‘Whether fate be foul or fair, Why falter I or fear? What should man do but dare?’

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

400

Who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

Anonymous

400


John Donne compared two legs of compass to two lovers in his poem ...............

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

400

Which character does Part II of The Pilgrim's Progress center around?

Who is Christiana?

400

“One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!”

Twelfth Knight

500

Summarize Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Up to prof's discretion 

500

an extended metaphor is called a...

a conceit

500

In Paradise Lost, Satan says they cannot win the war by direct assault. What will they use instead? (3 things)

What are trickery, guile, and guerilla warfare?

500

To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

Pilgrim's Progress