ENG IV MID-TERM REVIEW
Mid-Term Review (Fill in and turn in for five points on test)
Unit I (include handouts)
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Periods
What was the name of the Roman missionary who established a monastery in Canterbury?
Which literary form was dominant during this time period?
During this time period what did people have a markedly strong belief in?
Who was crowned king in 1066?
Which king, crowned in 1154, brought in a judicial system, royal courts, juries, and chivalry?
What do you call a long narrative poem that celebrates a hero’s deeds?
What was the purpose of the morality and miracle plays during the Medieval Period?
Beowulf
In Beowulf, what is the name of Hrothgar’s great mead-hall?
How many men did Beowulf bring with him?
How long does Beowulf reign as King of the Geats?
From whom is Grendel descended?
Who helps Beowulf against the dragon?
Why is the dragon angry?
What happens to Beowulf’s remains?
The Canterbury Tales
Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?
For which social classes did Chaucer write?
At what time of year does the pilgrimage take place?
The Canterbury Tales is an unfinished work, wherein each pilgrim was supposed to tell
more than one tale. How many tales did Chaucer originally envision each pilgrim telling?
Geoffrey Chaucer died in October, 1400. Where is he buried?
This character is a lecherous man whose face is scared by leprosy.
This character is the only devote churchman in the group.
This character spends much of his money on books.
Who are the three men searching for in the Pardoner’s Tale?
What do they find under the tree?
What does “The Pardoner’s Tale” mainly warn against?
Why does the Pardoner upset the Host?
What is the Wife of Bath’s Prologue about?
What crime is the young knight guilty of?
What does the Wife of Bath say drove the fairies from the land?
According to the Wife of Bath, what do women most desire?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
During whose reign does the poem take place?
Where does the Green Knight first issue his challenge?
Where is Gawain supposed to find the Green Knight?
What is the Green Knight’s real name?
What final love token does the lady first offer Gawain?
How much time does Gawain have to locate the Green Knight?
Why does Gawain refuse the lady’s advances?
What is Gawain’s relationship to King Arthur?
Why is the host of the castle upset with Sir Gawain?
What injury does the Green Knight give Gawain?
Unit II and Shakespeare (include handouts)
Unit II
Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard introduced what form of literature to England?
Why did Henry VIII divorce Catherine, his wife of eighteen years?
Which wife of Henry VIII was the mother of Elizabeth I?
Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepard to His Love” is a famous example of what kind of poetry?
Which romantic epic did Edmund Spenser dedicate to Elizabeth I?
Who wrote, “Come live with me and be my love”?
Which literary figure died in a bar fight at the age of 29?
How many lines are in a sonnet?
Which sonnet form has an octave and sestet?
Which sonnet compares ice and fire?
How many people could the original Globe Theater hold?
How was the first Globe Theater destroyed?
How many scholars and clergymen worked on the King James Bible?
In the King James Bible, which passage deals with the element of time?
In the “Parable of the Prodigal Son”, why does the son return home?
In metaphysical poetry what is meant by a paradox?
Who did John Donne write, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” to?
In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” to what does the poem compare the speaker and his love?
Who wrote, “To His Coy Mistress”?
The Cavalier poets supported the monarch and advocated carpe diem. What does carpe diem mean?
Which poet lost his sight at the age of forty-three?
What do you call a literary writing that tells a surface story, but has a secondary meaning that is
meant to convey some form of teaching or moral lesson?
Which poem is considered the first epic poem of the English language?
This writer was jailed for twelve years for violating the religious restrictions of the Church of England.
Shakespearian Plays - Know the major characters and plot lines of the six presented plays:
Hamlet A Midsummers Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet The Taming of the Shrew
Macbeth The Merchant of Venice
