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WorksheetsBrit Lit Semester I exam
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 1hrs 10mins
The Anglo-Saxons ruled England from:
1976 AD to 2005 AD
300 BC to 449 AD
1066 AD to 1492 AD
449 AD to 1066 AD
The group most responsible for the preservation of learning in England was:
The monks
The French
The Scotts
The Anglo-Saxons
Animism was a form of religion practiced by the:
Anglo-Saxons
The Italians
The Muslims
the Celts
The most sophisticated form of government in England prior to the Norman Conquest was that of:
The French
The Romans
the Druids
the Scandanavians
A fundamental feature of the Anglo-Saxon way of life was:
loyalty to the stone gods
loyalty to the artist's colony
loyalty to the lord
loyalty to women warriors
The end of the Anglo-Saxon era was brought about by:
The fall of the Roman Empire
The Norman Conquest
The Crusades
The Discovery of Sutton Hoo
Grendel was said to be a descendant of :
Jesus Christ
Hrothgar
Cain
Moses
Hrothgar's men were most threatened by the monster when they:
worked in the farm fields
were sailing on the ocean
were in the thick of battle
were in the mead hall
Grendel had been terrorizing the Danes for how long?
Six months
Twelve years
Twelve months
One hundred years
Beowulf contains both:
Welsh and Scottish references
French and Swiss references
Christian and pagan references
Hebrew and Muslim references
Beowulf went to Hrothgar's defense because:
his father had been helped by Hrothgar and because he wanted to add to his warrior reputation
Beowulf had pledged loyalty to Unferth, his lord
Beowulf owed the Danes a great deal of money
Hrothgar was Beowulf's grandfather.
Beowulf shows great tact to Hrothgar when he:
Asks Welthow to translate Hrothgar's speech
Asks permission to fight Grendel
Invites Unferth to fight along side him
Refuses to take any reward for his services
Beowulf vanquishes Grendel by:
cutting off his head
attacking Grendel's mother
ripping off Grendel's arm
all of these
Beowulf is able to defeat Grendel's mother by:
using a sword made by giants
striking her with a blessed crucifix
burying her under a pile of rocks
hitting her with Grendel's arm
Beowulf's "Final Battle" takes place when:
Beowulf is much older
Beowulf is fighting a dragon
Wiglaf remains with Beowulf
All of these
As he lay dying, Beowulf asks Wiglaf to:
Find his only son, Unferth
Lead Beowulf's people and share the treasure with them
Become a bard so he can tell Beowulf's story
Make sure he has a ship burial at Sutton Hoo
Even in death, Beowulf is helping his people by:
Appearing as a ghost along the harborline
Having his tomb serve as a guide for voyagers
Having his sons serve as kings for hundreds of years
Sharing his songs and stories with the bards and scops.
The most important attribute Beowulf possessed was:
Absolute loyalty to the lord
A talent for singing and storytelling
Extremely good looks
Cleverness
In The Canterbury Tales,
"She spoke daintily in French, extremely
After the school of Stratford-atte-Bowe;" describes
The Pardoner
The Wife of Bath
The Oxford Cleric
The Prioress
"The rule of good St. Benet or St. Maur
As old and strict he tended to ignore" refers to:
The Prioress
The Monk
The Summoner
The Reeve
"I'll go along with you myself and ride,
All at my own expense and serve as guide" refers to:
The Narrator
The Manciple
The Pardoner
The Host
"They were so trim and fresh their gear would pass for new" refers to:
The Clerk of Oxford
The Knight
The Sargent at the Law
The Guildsmen
"She knew the remedy for love's mischances
An art in which she knew the oldest dances" refers to
The Wife of Bath
The Prioress
The Guildsmen
The Friar
"His house was never short of baked meat pies
Of fish and flesh, and these in such supplies
It positively snowed with meat and drink" refers to:
The Manciple
The Reeve
The Host
The Franklin
"He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark
With smudges where his armor had left its mark" refers to:
The Squire
The Wife of Bath
The Host
The Knight
"And at its very tip his nose displayed
A wart on which thee stood a tuft of hair
Red as the bristles on an old sow's ear" refers to
The Summoner
The Miller
The Narrator
The Yeoman
"But what a pity--so it seemed to me
That he should have an ulcer on his knee" refers to:
The Doctor
The Reeve
The Yeoman
The Cook
"Though there was nowhere one so busy as he
He was less busy than he seemed to be" refers to:
The Sargent at the Law
The Miller
The Prioress
The Manciple
"He was emroidered like a meadow bright
And full of freshest flowers, red and white" refers to:
The Knight
The Squire
The Host
The Franklin
"A tone of moral virtue filled his speech
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach" refers to
The Parson
The Guildsmen
The Clerk of Oxford
The Friar
"He wouldn't speak a word except in Latin,
When he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in" refers to
The Monk
The Pardoner
The Summoner
The Parson
"This estimable _______________ so had set
His wits to work, none knew he was in debt" refers to
The Merchant
The Skipper
The Plowman
The Sargent at the Law
The opening scene of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is:
The Easter Vigil
New Year's Eve
King Arthur's birthday
Chanukah
When the Green Knight presents his challenge,
All the soldiers fight to see who will get to accept the challenge
Arthur banishes him from the kingdom
Gawain accepts the challenge to save Arthur
Galahad begs Arthur to be allowed to accept the challenge.
Gawain feels that he has eliminated the threat of the Green Knight because he:
Cut off the Green Knight's head
Invited the Green Knight to feast with the men rather than fighting
Hid Arthur in a remote part of the castle where the Green Knight couldn't find him.
Banished the Green Knight with Gawain's magical powers.
The Green Knight surprises Arthur's men by:
Finding Arthur with very little effort
Picking up his head and riding off
Refusing to feast with them because their food is unclean
Giving each of Arthur's men a handful of golden coins
At the end of a year, Gawain is required to do what?
Pledge his absolute loyalty to Arthur as his knight
Meet the Green Knight at the Green Chapel
Return all of the golden coins the Green Knight threw to Arthur's men
Use his magical powers to defeat the Green Knight
While searching for the Green Knight, Gawain takes refuge:
At a Jesuit monastery
At the castle of the Host and his wife
At Arthur's Scottish castle
In Canterbury
Gawain feels he will die when he meets the Green Knight because:
He knows the Green Knight will cut off his head
The Green Knight's castle is in an extremely cold and damp swamp
The Green Knight is known as an unbeatable swordsman
Gawain has no horse, and must walk a long distance to the Green Chapel
The Green Knight doesn't kill Gawain because:
Gawain is able to outrun him
Gawain has kept almost all of his bargains with the Host
Gawain is an excellent swordsman himself
Arthur has paid Gawain's ransom
Gawain didn't give the Host the green sash because:
Gawain had fallen in love with the host's wife
Gawain needed a token from his lady to take into battle
Gawain had lost the sash, but was too embarrassed to admit it
The green sash was supposed to guarantee immortality
The Green Knight tells Gawain that the whole "game" was a test of Arthur's men set up by:
King Arthur
Lot of Orkney
Lady Igraine
Morgan Le Fey
Hamlet is a example of:
An Elizabethan tragedy
An Elizabethan comedy
An Elizabethan problem play
An Elizabethan history
An example of Hamlet "falling from a high place" is:
Being expelled from school at Wittenburg
Losing the crown he was entrusted with protecting
Experiencing the death of his father
Experiencing the death of his godfather
The Ghost reveals what to Hamlet?
He was murdered
Hamlet's mother was an adulteress
Hamlet needs to get revenge for him
All of these
Hamlet's true friend is:
Rosencrantz
Horatio
Guildenstern
Osric
Hamlet doesn't immediately fulfill the Ghost's command because:
He has hopes of becoming an ambassador to England
He thinks that he has been hallucinating
He is not sure if the Ghost is from heaven or hell
He wants to get Ophelia's opinion
The turn or shift in Act III is:
The death of Claudius
The death of Polonius
The death of Laertes
The death of Gertrude
Hamlet's tragic flaw is:
His extreme ambition
His uncontrolled jealousy
His impetuous behavior
His inability to act and his procrastination
It is obvious to the audience that Hamlet will die because:
Ophelia, his girlfriend dies.
The Ghost foretold it.
That is one of the characteristics of an Elizabethan tragedy.
His death is foretold in the title.
Hamlet asks Horatio to stay alive to do what:
Kill Claudius and fulfill the revenge
Marry Ophelia and have many children to honor Hamlet
Challenge Fortinbras to be ruler of Denmark
Tell Hamlet's story and clear his name.
Hamlet's final words are:
"Marry Ophelia, Horatio"
"The rest is silence."
"Stay alive, and avenge my death."
"Fortinbras, Claudius is the murderer."
Renaissance Poets:
A very popular writing format for the Renaissance poets was the:
epic
ode
sonnet
monologue
The poet who served as Queen Elizabeth's confidential secretary and wrote a witty reply to another's pastoral poem was:
John Donne
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Wm. Shakespeare
This poet wrote 154 sonnets, chiefly to the "beloved young man" and "the dark lady."
Wm. Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Andrew Marvell
Edmund Spencer
This poet was a metaphysical poet who began life as a Catholic, but later became a Doctor of the Anglican Church.
John Donne
Wm. Shakespeare
Richard Loveless
Robert Herrick
This poet was one of a "tribe" of a major poet; he wrote lighter verse, became a priest, and espoused the "carpe diem" ideal in poetry.
Thomas Wyatt
Robert Herrick
Christopher Marlowe
Andrew Marvell
A Cavalier poet, this man wrote lighter verse, and is said to have invented the card game of cribbage.
Ben Johnson
Richard Lovelace
John Suckling
Edmund Spencer
A courtier of Henry VIII, he brought the Italian sonnet to England.
Wm Shakespeare
Andrew Marvell
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Ben Johnson
Belonging to the first generation of Elizabethan dramatists, this poet showed Shakespeare what was possible in dramatic poetry.
Christopher Marlowe
Wm. Shakespeare
Richard Lovelace
John Suckling
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,/Old time is still a-flying" was written by:
Christopher Marlowe
Andrew Marvell
Ben Johnson
Robert Herrick
"I sent thee late a rosy wreath/Not so much honoring thee/As giving it a hope that there/it could not withered be" was written by:
Edmund Spencer
Robert Herrick
John Suckling
Ben Johnson
"One short sleep past, we wake eternally/and death shall be no more; Death, thou shall die" was written by
John Donne
Ben Johnson
Andrew Marvel
Thomas Wyatt
Name the poem: "Go and catch a falling star,/Get with child a mandrake root"
"Sonnet 30"
"Song"
"Sonnet 29"
"Song: to Celia"
Name the poem: "My verse your virtues rare shall eternize/And in the heavens write your glorious name."
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
"Why So Pale and Wan?"
"Sonnet 75"
"The Faerie Queen"
Name the poem: "But at my back I always hear/Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
"To His Coy Mistress"
"The Fowl Duessa"
"Whoso List to Hunt"
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Name the poem: "Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy/My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy."
"Sonnet 29"
"On My First Son"
"Why So Pale and Wan?"
"Sonnet 130"
The format and rhyme scheme of the Italian Sonnet is:
Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, with abab/cdcd/efef/gg
Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, with abba/abba/cde/cde
An octave and a sestet, with abba/abba/cde/cde
Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, with abab/bcbc/cdcd/ee
The form and rhyme scheme of a Spenserian sonnet is:
An Octave and a sestet, with abba/abba/cde/cde
Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet with abab/cdcd/efef/gg
An Octave and a sestet, with abab/cdcd/efef/gg
Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, with abab/bcbc/cdcd/ee
The form and rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is:
Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet with abba/abba/cde/cde
Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, with abab/cdcd/efef/gg
An Octave and a sestet with abba/abba/cde/cde
An Octave and a sestet with abab/bcbc/cdcd/ee
