Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Who led the final invasion to mark the end of the Anglo-Saxon period?

• a) The Danes

• b) The Normans

• c) The French

• d) The British

What was the name of the person who led the Norman invasion in 1066?

• a) King William II

• b) King Harold II

• c) King Henry I

• d) King Edward II

What was the feudal system introduced by King William I?

• a) A system of government based on a monarch

• b) A system of land ownership and military service

• c) A system of religious hierarchy

• d) A system of taxation

What were the three classes or estates of Medieval English society?

• a) Nobility, clergy and commoners

• b) Knights, barons and peasants

• c) Lords, serfs and slaves

• d) Farmers, merchants and craftsmen

What were the two main conflicts during the Middle English period?

• a) The Hundred's Year War and the War of the Roses

• b) The English Civil War and the Peasants' Revolt

• c) The Battle of Hastings and the Scottish Wars of Independence

• d) The Wars of the Roses and the Wars of Scottish Independence

What was the cause of French influence on the English language in the Middle Ages?

• a) The dominance of French power in England

• b) The popularity of French cuisine in England

• c) The influence of French literature on English writers

• d) The spread of the French language through trade

What was the size of the lexicon at the end of the Old English period?

• a) Over 100,000 different words

• b) Something over 50,000 different words

• c) Around 25,000 different words

• d) Less than 10,000 different words

What was the primary means of organization in Middle English?

• a) Inflectional endings

• b) Word order

• c) Prefixes and suffixes

• d) Pronunciation system

What significant changes in the pronunciation system occurred during the Middle English period?

• a) The distinction between the /f/ and /v/ consonants began to differentiate words

• b) The distinction between the /s/ and /z/ consonants began to differentiate words

• c) New contrastive units of sound (‘phonemes’) emerged

• d) All of the above

Which literary work contains an example of Middle English?

• a) Beowulf

• b) The Odyssey

• c) The Iliad

• d) The Canterbury Tales