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WorksheetsMid-term Exam review
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 37mins
Which stage of the Hero’s Journey typically features supernatural aid and acceptance of the call?
Ordinary World and Refusal of Call
Meeting the Mentor and Crossing the Threshold
Return with Elixir and Resurrection
Tests, Allies, and Approach to Inmost Cave
In Beowulf, what motivates Beowulf’s voyage to Denmark?
Quest to steal dragon treasure
Wish to claim Geatish throne
Desire to avenge Hrothgar’s son
Duty to aid against Grendel
Which Canterbury Tales section introduces and characterizes the pilgrims?
The General Prologue overview
The Miller’s Tale introduction
The Knight’s Tale prologue
The Pardoner’s Tale ending
What moral lesson does the Pardoner’s Tale illustrate most directly?
Honor conquers treachery
Greed is the root of all evil
Love defeats jealousy
Fortune favors the brave
Which European groups invaded Britain between 100 and 1066 AD?
Danes, Moors, Lombards
Celts, Huns, Byzantines
Vikings, Franks, Visigoths
Angles and Saxons
Which two houses fought the Wars of the Roses and which colors represent them?
Stuart white, Tudor red
Tudor red, Plantagenet white
Lancaster white, York red
York white, Lancaster red
Which dynasty came to the throne after the Wars of the Roses?
Plantagenet
Tudor
Stuart
Hanover
Which English king initiated the English Reformation?
Henry II
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Edward I
Which term describes a story within a story structure?
Exemplum narrative
Frame story device
Legend cycle form
Epic saga style
Which term best defines a long narrative poem about heroic deeds?
Legend tradition account
Epic poetic narrative
Romance courtly tale
Parable moral anecdote
An epic (legendary) hero is typically characterized by which feature?
Divine birth mystery
Political cunning and guile
Extraordinary strength and honor
Courtly love and wit
Which medieval genre emphasizes chivalry, quests, and courtly love?
Legendary chronicle
Medieval Romance genre
Fabliau comic fable
Exemplum moral tale
Which literary term refers to a brief story used to teach a moral in sermons?
Romance
Parable
Legend
Exemplum
Which phrase best captures the core of chivalry in medieval literature?
Knightly honor and courtesy
Mercantile fairness code
Royal succession law
Tribal warrior loyalty
Which archetypal narrative element often signals transformation in a hero’s journey?
Elder’s farewell speech
Threshold crossing moment
Banquet reconciliation
Trickster’s comic relief
Which character in Beowulf is the monster terrorizing Heorot?
Grendel
Wiglaf
Hrothgar
Unferth
In the Canterbury Tales Prologue, which pilgrim profits from selling fake relics?
The Miller
The Pardoner
The Summoner
The Friar
In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, what test does the Green Knight propose?
Riddle contest of wisdom
Tournament of mounted jousts
Exchange of blows with an axe
Quest to retrieve a holy grail
The hero is introduced in the known world.
crossing the threshold
trials
status quo
approach
The story develops rising action as the hero faces a series of challenges that become increasingly difficult as the story unfolds.
Tests, Trials, and Allies
Call to Adventure
The Road Back
The Abyss/Crisis
The future hero is first given notice that his or her life is going to change.
Meeting with the Mentor
Road of Trials
Call to Adventure
Crossing the Threshold
The future hero often refuses to accept the quest or wants everything to stay the same.
Refusal of the Call
The Road of Trials
Crisis/Abyss
Call to Adventure
Most of a hero's journey takes place
in space
in the known world
underground
in the unknown world
A "point of no return" is crossed. The hero is committing to the journey. The hero leaves their ordinary world and enters into an unfamiliar/new world.
The Road Back
The Road of Trials
The Ordeal/Abyss/Crisis
Crossing the Threshold
The hero comes across a veteran traveler of the worlds or a wise man or woman who gives him or her training, equipment, weapons, or advice that will help on the journey.
The Reward
Approach to the Inmost Cave
The Resurrection
Meeting with the Mentor
The step on the journey where the hero confronts death or faces his/her greatest fear.
The Underworld
Reward/Treasure
Abyss/Crisis/Ordeal
The Road of Trials
The hero normally receives this after he has faced the Ordeal/Crisis
The Talisman
A Reward/treasure
The Mentor
Allies
What happens after trials and the crisis/abyss?
The Hero dies
The Call to Adventure and Departure
The Road of Trials and Allies
Reward/Treasure and the Road Back
True or False: Every Hero's Journey story contains all of the steps in the same order.
True
False
The hero returns home or continues the journey, but as a newer, better version of themselves.
The Return
The Road Back
The Treasure/Reward
Initiation/Transformation
Why does the Green Knight come seeking King Arthur?
to give him a present.
to fight him.
to challenge him.
What is the challenge that the Green Knight offers them?
you chop my head off and I’ll chop your head off later.
you eat my soup and I’ll eat your soup later.
fight me in hand to hand combat.
Who accepts the challenge first?
King Arthur
Gawain
Camelot
What reason does Gawain give for being the better candidate?
he is the strongest and will do the King honor.
he is the weakest and the challenge is beneath that of the king
he is not scared.
How is Gawain related to King Arthur?
Gawain is his son.
Gawain is his cousin.
Gawain is his nephew.
What happens when Gawain swings the ax at the Green Knight’s neck?
the knight is saved by a goddess.
the knight lifts his arm to protect himself and his arm is chopped off.
the knight’s head rolls off and sits on the floor.
How does the Green Knight leave?
he runs away while the members of the court, who have turned into an angry mob, chase him.
he doesn’t- he died.
he picks his head up off the floor and carries it to his horse, mounts, and rides away.
What is Gawain supposed to do in 12 months (a year's time)?
duel Arthur for Guinevere’s hand.
bury the Green Knight at the Green Chapel.
allow the Green Knight to take a swing at his own head.
What did Gawain get as a gift from the Lady of the Castle before going to see the Green Knight?
A dog
A new sword
A magical green belt
Arthur’s knights believe the Green Knight to be friendly because
He comes unarmed and carries holly
He tells really good jokes
Being green is a sign of peace in the Middle Ages
The Green Sash is special because anyone wearing it
gains super-human strength
cannot be killed by another man
can find the Green Knight’s Chapel
narrow eyes, black, scabby eyebrows, children are afraid of him, really bad skin
