Ages Era Period Mcqs
Q.1: What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V ?9
A. the Battle of Agincourt
B. the Battle of Hastings
C. the Norman Conquest
D. the War of the Roses
Q.2: What was vellum ?
A. parchment made of animal skin
B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants (\villeins\)7
C. unrhymed iambic pentameter
D. a prized ink used in the illumination of prestigious manuscripts@
Q.3: Who is the author of Piers Plowman ?$
A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. Margery Kempe
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. William Langland
Q.4: Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures ?
A.
B. Arthur
C. Augustine of Canterbury
D. Alfred
Q.5: The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?
A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.>
B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.E
C. Their readers primary language was English..
D. a and c only
Q.6: What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouths The History of the Kings of Britain ?T
A. the reign of King Arthur
B. the coronation of Henry II
C. King Johns seal of the Magna Carta%
D. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine0
Q.7: Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives ?_
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Marie de France
C. Chrtien de Troyes
D. b and c only
Q.8: Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336 ?N
A. Henry II
B. Henry V
C. Louis XIV
D. Edward III
Q.9: Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?h
A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.0
B. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.0
D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.U
Q.10: Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 ?S
A. the Normans
B. the Geats
C. the Anglo-Saxons
D. the Danes

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