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English History
Canterbury Tales
Everyman
Sir Gawain
Le Morte d'Arthur
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This is another name for the Medieval time period.
What is the Middle Ages?
100
The "father of English Literature.
Who is Geofrey Chaucer?
100
Everyman is an example of this
What is Allegory?
100
This is the setting (time and place) at the beginning of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
What is Christmas/December at Camelot?
100
This character has two dreams that foreshadow his doom.
Who is Arthur?
200
This became the third language in its own country during the Middle Ages.
What is English?
200
What language were The Canterbury Tales written in originally?
What is Middle English?
200
Everyman is an example of this type of Medieval drama.
What is morality play?
200
The test the Green Knight gives Sir Gawain is considered his this
What is "Trial by Fire"?
200
This character has challenged Arthur into battle
Who is Mordred?
300
Words like "villain" "court" "mutton" and "ballad" all come from this official language of the courts
What is French?
300
This character is described as obsessed with money in "The Prologue" to the point that he thinks it "stimulates the heart".
Who is the Doctor?
300
This character must bring Everyman to God.
What is Death?
300
The amount of time Sir Gawain has to find the Green Knight and complete his quest
What is one year and a day?
300
The weapon of choice for Arthur against Mordred
What is a spear?
400
This is from where and when William the Conqueror arrived in England.
What is Normandy, France in 1066?
400
This technique allows the multiple stories of the characters to fit into an overall story arch of the journey to Canterbury.
What is a frame story?
400
This is the only character who stays with Everyman all the way to Death.
What is Good Works?
400
This is what saves Gawain's life but humiliates him.
What is the golden sash given to him by the Green Knight's wife?
400
This knight is tasked with throwing Arthur's magical sword Excalibur into the lake
Who is Bedivere?
500
This woman brought the ideas of Chivalry and Courtly Love to England in the early Middle Ages
Who is Elenore of Aquitaine?
500
This is the primary literary device used throughout the Canterbury Tales to highlight hypocrisy.
What is irony?
500
This character gets the last word at the end of Everyman.
Who is Knowledge?
500
Two traits that make "Sir Gawain" a medieval Romance
Acceptable answers: faraway settings, courtly love, flawed hero, supernatural(magic) elements
500
The epitaph on Arthur's tomb.
What is "the once and future king"