25 Mcqs Middle Age in English literature
Medieval English literature Mcqs
1. What is middle age in English literature?
5th to 15 century
2. What are the three types of Middle Ages?
The Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, and the Late Middle Ages
3. What was the most famous literature of the Middle Ages?
Dante's Divine Comedy
4. Who is the writer of middle age?
Dante Alighieri
5. Which poet is known as the “moral Gower”?
John Gower
6. Who is the father of Middle English literature?
Geoffrey Chaucer
7. What are the major themes of Middle English literature?
Christianity, chivalry, and courtly love
8. What is the most famous of Middle English literature?
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
9. What are the three main periods of Middle Age art?
Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic
10. What are the literary traditions of the Middle Ages?
Lyric poetry, allegory, hagiography, and fabliaux
11. Who were the two major poets of the Middle Ages?
Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
12. What is middle age called?
Medieval Age or Medieval Period
13. The language of the educated and clergy during the early Middle Ages was ________.
Latin
14. Chaucer lived during the reign of which king?
Richard II
15. Chaucer’s masterpiece is ________.
The Canterbury Tales
16. “The Canterbury Tales” is written in which verse form?
Heroic couplets
17. The three main languages used in medieval England were ________.
Latin, French, English
18. The Middle Ages in English literature ended
1500
20. Middle English developed mainly from
Old English and Norman French
21. The main source of Old English literature was
Oral tradition
22. The major epic poem of Old English period is
Beowulf
23. The Middle English period in literature roughly spans from:
1066 to 1500
24. Who wrote Piers Plowman?
William Langland
25. Which literary form became popular in the Middle Ages?
Ballad
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