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Ecclesiastical History of the English People

the Venerabe Bede

100

Morte Darthur

Sir Thomas Malory


100

What selection teaches the important lesson that death comes for every man when least expected?

Everyman

100

What period were Shakespeare, and the Spenserian stanza from?

Elizabethan

100

What is the oldest surviving Germanic epic?

Beowulf

200

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

200

"Sonnet 116"

Shakespeare

200

What selection describes an imaginary ideal society?

Utopia

200

What period was the Pearl Poet, mystery play, "Bonny Barbara Ann," and romances such as King Arthur and Sir Gawain in?

Medieval Period

200

What literary genre reached its peak during the Elizabethan period?

drama

300
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"

Sir Walter Raleigh

300

Utopia

Sir Thomas More
300

What selection shows the speaker's response to God's chastening?

"A Hymn to God the Father"

300

What period would you find "Bookworm," a scop, and the love of freedom and strong convictions?

Anglo-Saxon Period

300

What represented allegorically the battle which the vices and virtues wage for the possession of the human soul?

Morality play

400
"Song to Celia"

Ben Johnson

400

Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

400

What selection is a comparison of man's life to a play of passion?

"On the Life of Man"

400

What type of play was Macbeth?

Tragedy

400

What is based primarily on the adventures of knights, kings, or distressed ladies?

Medieval Romance

500

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

the Pearl Poet

500

The Book of Martyrs

John Foxe

500

What selection teaches that the root of all evil is money?

"The Pardoner's Tale"

500

What three periods have we learned about this year?

Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and Elizabethan 

500

What is a short tale or anecdote told to teach a lesson?

exemplum