Medieval Literature

The Anglo-Saxon period came to an end when the last Saxon King died and his kinsman, ____ claimed the English throne.

• King James I

• Queen Elizabeth I

• William Duke of Normandy

• Henry VIII

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The new king sailed to England and conquered the Anglo-Saxons at the_____ in 1066. (Thus he became known as William the Conqueror.)

• Battle of Normandy

• Battle of Hastings

• Battle of the Bulge

• Lake of Michigan

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The _____ language of the Normans combined with the Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons to form Middle English.

• French

• Spanish

• Portugese

• Italian

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The Normans also introduced _____ to England in which previously farmer-owned lands were divided among Norman nobles loyal to the king, and then the farmers were forced to work the land for the nobles.

• industrialism

• hope

• despair

• feudalism

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

William ordered a census be taken, and the results were recorded in the _____ in 1086.

• Census Book

• Howmany are We Book

• Domesday Book

• Whoolives Here Book

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The new king did not interfere with the Roman church.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

After losing the _____, England concentrated on its internal development as a nation, creating a strong constitutional monarchy and thus ended the Medieval Period.

• War of 1812

• English Civil War of 1642

• Thirty Years' War of 1618

• Hundred Years’ War with France in 1485

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The code of conduct set for the nobility and the knights.

• Rules of Knighthood

• Servitude

• Chivalry

• Indentured slavery

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Chivalrous knights should exhibit qualities such as _____, and it established protections for churchmen, peasants, and women.

• strength

• courage

• loyalty

• courtesy

• all of the above

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The knights and nobles did not always abide by the code of chivalry as the Middle Ages were brutish times, and men and women were barbaric by today’s standards as many _____.

• rarely bathed

• ate with fingers

• had coarse manners

• All of the above

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4