WorksheetsWhat do we know about early British literature?
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is known as the British Epic?
Beowulf
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Canterbury Tales
Who first invaded the British Isles?
The Celts
The Romans
The angles
The Normans
What great hero is believed to have held off the Germanic invasion of Britain?
King Arthur
Charlemagne
Robin Hood
Edward, the black prince
What language did William the Conqueror bring from Normandy?
Latin
French
Old English
German
Who supposedly drew the sword from the stone?
Grendel
Beowulf
King Arthur
Charlemagne
what language did the clerics, the religious people, speak?
Latin
German
French
Old English
In what language was Beowulf written?
Old English
Latin
Renaissance English
French
Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare
Alexander Pope
The church
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
John Donne
Alexander Pope
Geoffrey Chaucer
During the Middle Ages, peasants and serfs were required to serve their knight. Their Knight was required to serve their lord and then their lord was required to serve the king. What is this political form known as?
Feudalism
Socialism
Democracy
Anti socialism
What language did the Anglo-Saxons speak?
Old English
Swedish
American English
French
What language is this: Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Old English
Old French
Old Norse
Spanish
Who lived in Britain BEFORE the Romans conquered it?
Celtic peoples
the Angles
the Saxons
the English
Who conquered Celtic Britain?
The Romans
The French from Normandy
the Germans
the Americans
This language is very complicated. It was spoken in England BEFORE the invasion of the Romans.
