Medieval Unit Test Name____________ English IV Date ____________ I. Medieval Life Multiple Choice 1. Feudalism is an exchange of ______ for ______. A). money, land B) knights, land) C) land, personal service 2. The person who received the land was called a ____? A) serf, B) vassal, C) both A and B 3. Each Baron was required to supply _____. A) knights, B) serfs, C) manors 4. Knights received smaller parcels of land called ___. A) homage, B) manors C) estates 5. The people who worked the knights' land were called ____. A) serfs, B) peasants, C) neither A nor B 6. Norman rule ended when in 1154 ___ came to the throne. A) Richard I, B) Henry II, C. John I, D) none of these 7. Common Law means? A) when two people live together for a certain number of yeas it shall be as though they were married, B) a law common to all, C) a law that applies only to the common people. 8. In 1215 a group of __ forced King___ to sign the _____. A) knights, Henry, Magna Charter. B) Barons, John, Manga Charter, C) neither A nor B. 9. King _______ and ______ were good friends. A) Henry, Thomas a Becket, B) Edward, Thomas a Becket, C) William, Thomas a Becket. 10. Thomas a Becket was killed in ________ by ________. A) Canterbury cathedral, knights, B) 1170, a stabbing in the back, C) both A and B 11. A pilgrimage is a ___. A) holy journey, B) a vacation trip, C) the settling of a new land. 12. The idea of _____ arose from the _____. A) ballads, Chivalry, B) chivalry, crusades, C) romance, crusades. 13. The Crusades were fought to free ____ from the _____. A) England, France, B) England, Turks, B) Jerusalem, Turks. 14. A chivalrous knight might be expected to do all of the following except ___. A) pledge service to a lady, maintain valor Both on and off the battle field, C) own several horses. 15. The ___ in 1348 killed ___ of the population. A) Black Plaque, 1/3, B) Black Plague, ¼, C) Black Plague, 1/3. Fill In the Blank 1. A medieval romance is a____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Name at least three themes of a Medieval romance. _______________ 3. The Medieval romance story we read in class was __________________ 4. The War of the Roses was a feud between the Houses of ____________and _____________ and was resolved with the marriage of ________________. 5. The earliest romances were always in ________ but later ones were sometimes in ____________. 6. ____________ has knights of the round table. 7. List at least three characteristics of a knight's life _______________________________________________________ 8. Lyric poems fall into two main categories: ______________ and ______________. 9. Europeans of the Middle Ages had a fondness for a harp-like instrument called the _____________. 10. Name at least 3 topics of secular poetry in the Middle Ages. _______________________________________________________ 11. What were "ordeals"? _____________________________________ 12. The merchants gained a step up in society by ____________________ 13. What is Habeas Corpus?____________________________________ 14. The person who lead England in the Crusades was __________________ 15. What two countries were involved in the 100 years war? ____________ II. Literary Terms and Techniques Multiple Choice 1. A theme is a A) central idea, B) long poem, C) repetition of sounds 2. A refrain includes A) repetition, B) meter, C) theme 3. A Quatrain contains ___ lines. A) 4 or 5, B) 3, C) neither a nor B 4. Meter is ____ A) the number of lines, B) rhythmical pattern, C) neither A nor B. 5. A heroic couplet A) always deals with heroism, B) rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines, C) both A and B. 6. A simile ____ A) uses like or as, B) says one thing is another, C) both A and B. 7. An Exemplum: A) is a short tale, B) has a moral, C) both A and B 8. And Epic is: A) long narrative prose, B) long narrative poem, C) neither A nor B. 9. Alliteration includes all of the following except: A) repetition of initial consonant sounds, B) repetition of vowel sounds, C) repetition of a line. 10. The difference between a Ballad and a Lyric is A) a ballad tells a story, B) a lyric tells a story, C) one was longer than the other. III. Medieval Literature Multiple Choice 1. Sir Patrick Spens sets sail on a fatal voyage because of his A) love of adventure, B) hope for a rich reward, C) loyalty to his king. 2. Why does the king order Sir Patrick to go sailing in bad weather? A) to test his courage, B) to kill a traitorous knight, C) to carry out a mission. 2. Barbara Allen was vindictive toward Sir John because he had A) slighted her at a party, B) hesitated to ask her hand in marriage, C) cheated on her 3. A cottage door was left unlocked in "Get Up and Bar the Door" because a A) husband and wife were absent-minded, B) husband and wife were both stubborn, C) lock had rusted and wouldn't turn. 4. "The Twa Corbies" involves a discussion between two ____ about _____ A) ravens, where to get dinner, B) knights, two ravens, C) neither A nor B 5. When the two rude visitors in :Get up and Bar the Door" moved to cut off his beard and kiss his wife the husband? A) spoke first and lost the contest, B) attacked his visitors in a fury, C) let them kiss his wife. 6. The central theme of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is that: A) violence accomplishes nothing, B) it is most honorable to admit a misdeed, C) one must accept all challenges. 7. Sir Gawain's main internal conflict involves his guilt over: A) accepting the lady's gift, accepting the knight's challenge, C) violating the chivalric code 8. Chaucer uses the pilgrimage primarily as a device to: A_ emphasize the characters' religious aspirations, B) frame the stories told by individual characters, C) create a vivid and realistic setting. 9. In the role of narrator, Chaucer portrays himself as: A) stern and judgmental, B) robust and merry, C) naïve and simpleminded 10. Which best describes Chaucer's attitude toward the Nun? A) amused tolerance, B) polite detachment, C) marked scorn. 11. What do the following lines suggest about the woman from Bath: "In all the parish not a dame dared stir/ towards the altar steps in front of her?" A) she is a religious fanatic, B) she is selfish and arrogant, C) she disdains the company of women. 12. The "Pardoner's Tale" is an anecdote because it: A) frames the story within a larger story, B) purports to teach a lesson, C) portrays good and evil characters. 13. What moral does the Pardoner intend to convey to his audience? A) liquor is the root of all evil, B) love of money causes corruption and death, C) a fool and his money are soon parted. 14. Which of the following is the central idea of "The Pardoner's Tale?" A) there is no loyalty among thieves, B) trust no one, C) humans are basically evil. 15. The old man views death as: A) the fearful prospect of damnation, B) a release from mortal pain, C) the opening of heaven's gate. Fill in the Blank 1. The Green Knight challenges Arthur's knights to strike at him with a (n)_____ 2. ___________is the first person to take up the Green Knight's Challenge. 3. Gawain agrees to meet the Green Knight on ______________the following year. 4. Gawain accepts a __________________ from the lady at the castle. 5. The Green Knight is the ____________ of the lady in the castle. The following questions pertain to The Canterbury Tales 6. The ______________ is traveling with his son. 7. The most honest churchman described is the ____________________. 8. The Pardoner makes his living by ______________________________ 9. At the end of the Prologue, the ___________________agrees to join the pilgrims on their journey. 10. _____________ had a pimply face and parroted Latin. 11. _______________ had a wart on his nose, red hair, a short temper, and played the bagpipe. 12. This woman, ___________________, was a somewhat deaf and had five husbands. 13. The _______________loved books more than anything. 14. The Three rioters in "The Pardoner's Tale" plan to kill ______________ 15. One young man goes to town for _____________ . IV. Essay Using the five paragraph essay form 1. Compare and contrast the following forms of Medieval literature : Medieval Romance, Ballads and Lyrics, and Exemplum. Be sure to give examples of each of the genres (types of literature)