Midterm Test; History of English Literature 2023

Name

NIM

When is the best approximate year of the Old English Period?

• 450 - 1100

• 800 - 1200

• 250 - 1100

• 900 - 1200

The oldest surviving epic of the Old English Period

• Odyssey

• Canterbury Tale

• Hamlet

• Beowulf

Another term for the Old English Period is?

• Anglo-Norman Period

• Anglo-Saxon Period

• Germanic Period

• Norman Conquest Period

Who is the writer of Beowulf?

• Cynewulf

• Caedmon

• Bede

• Anonymous

Which is not the common theme of early Old English Period?

• riddles

• heroic poetry

• humanism

• elegiac poetry

Anglo-Saxon language is a synthetic language that has root from what language?

• Germanic

• French

• Latin

• Greek

What is Geoffrey Chaucer's best-known work?

• The Confessio

• The Canterbury Tale

• Le Morte d'Arthur

• Caedmon's Hymn

What is the significant event to sign the beginning of Middle English period?

• Viking conquest

• Saxon conquest

• Denmark conquest

• Norman conquest