1. It's Quiz Time!

2. A-S Culture
Medieval History
Ballads
Pot Luck
EPICS 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5

3. A-S Culture for 1
Question: What is a wergild?
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4. A-S Culture for 1 Back to the Game Board
Answer: “Man-price” paid to atone for someone’s death
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5. A-S Culture for 2 What are travelling storytellers called?
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6. A-S Culture for 2
Answer: Scops
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7. A-S Culture for 3 Check Your Answer
Question: Name 2 words we have today from A-S gods
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8. A-S Culture for 3 Back to the Game Board
Answer: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday
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9. A-S Culture for 4 Check Your Answer
Question: Name 2 pagan traits and 2 christian traits
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10. A-S Culture for 4
Answers: 1) Fate, boasting, admiration of hero, grim courage, etc.; 2) praising & thanking god, free will, asking god for protection, humility, etc.
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11. A-S Culture for 5 Check Your Answer
Question: Recall in order the four classes of A-S society
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12. A-S Culture for 5 Back to the Game Board
Answer: Earls, Freeman, Churls/Serfs, Thralls/Slaves
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13. BALLADS for 1 Check Your Answer
Question: What is a repeated line or phrase between verses?
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14. BALLADS for 1
Answer: Refrain
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15. Question: What are the 2 most common patterns of stanzas (rhyming)?
BALLADS for 2
Question: What are the 2 most common patterns of stanzas (rhyming)?
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16. Beowulf for 2
Answer: Quatrains and Couplets
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17. BALLADS for 3
Question: What is repeating lines or phrases with a new bit of information added to advance the plot?
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18. Ballads for 3
Answer: Incremental Repetition
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19. Ballads for 4
Question: What is a fixed phrase used over and over to fill blank spots (like cliches)?
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20. Answer: Ballad commonplace
Ballads for 4
Answer: Ballad commonplace
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21. Ballads for 5 Check Your Answer
Question: Recall any 6 traits of a ballad.
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22. Ballads for 5 Back to Game Board
Answers: author unknown, simple plot, impassive characters, (unassigned) dialogue, Rhyme scheme, refrain, leaping & lingering, incremental repetition, ballad commonplace, scandalous or unhappy
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23. Epics for 1
What kind of poem is an epic?
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24. Epics for 1
Answer: narrative
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25. Epics for 2 Check Your Answer
Question: What literary technique is “big, bad bully” an example of?
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26. Epics for 2
Answer: Alliteration
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27. Epics for 3 Check Your Answer Questions:
1) what is “sea-road” and example of?
2) What is “healfdane’s son” an example of?
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28. Epics for 3
Answers:
1) Kenning
2) epithet
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29. Epics for 4 Check Your Answer
Question: What are the 5 plot elements of an epic?
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30. Answers: battle, boast, voyage, funeral, feast
Epics for 4
Answers: battle, boast, voyage, funeral, feast
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31. Check Your Answer Epics for 5
Question: What are the 6 traits of an epic (name at least 5)
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32. Epics for 5 Back to the Game Board
Answers: hero larger than life, concerns eternal human problems, good vs. evil, fate of a nation, represents widespread values, presented in a serious way
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33. Medieval history for 1 Check Your Answer
Question: What happened in 1066 to begin the medieval period?
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34. Medieval history for 1 Back to the Game Board
Answer: norman conquest, battle of hastings, william the conqueror became king
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35. Check Your Answer Medieval history for 2
Question: What kind of government did the Norman conquest bring to england (an exchange of service for land)?
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36. Medieval history for 2
Answer: feudalism
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37. Medieval history for 3 Check Your Answer
Question: Which king led the crusades, and which one signed the magna carta (2 answers)?
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38. Medieval history for 3 Back to the Game Board
Answers: King richard; king john
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39. Check Your Answer Medieval history for 4
Question: Name the 2 guild systems and the modern version of each
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40. Medieval history for 4 Back to the Game Board Answers:
Craft guild = labor union
Merchant guild = city council
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41. Check Your Answer Medieval history for 5
Question: How did the Bubonic (black) plague eventually cause the end of feudalism?
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42. Medieval history for 5 Back to the Game Board
Answer: the plague caused a massive labor shortage that raised the demand of peasant labor. The peasant workers were able to demand money for their work, thus ending feudalism.
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43. Check Your Answer Pot Luck for 1
Question: What 2 types of poetry are ballads?
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44. Pot Luck for 1
Answers: lyric & narrative
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45. Check Your Answer Pot Luck for 2
Question: Name fate’s 3 threats mentioned in “The Seafarer.”
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46. Pot Luck for 2 Back to the Game Board
Answers: Illness, age, & an enemy’s sword
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47. Check Your Answer Pot Luck for 3
Question: Why are stories about knights and chivalry called romances?
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48. Pot Luck for 3 Back to the Game Board
Answer: because they were written in the romance languages (French, spanish, italian)
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49. Pot Luck for 4 Check Your Answer
Question: After the reign of Edward I, the struggle for the English throne was called the _____________ and was between the houses of ______ and _______.
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50. Pot Luck for 4 Back to the Game Board
Answers: War of the roses; lancaster; york
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51. Pot Luck for 5 Check Your Answer Questions:
1)When did the Anglo-Saxon Period begin and end?
2)When did the middle english period begin and end?
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52. Pot Luck for 5
Answers: 2)
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53. Epic Characteristics…
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Epic Characteristics…
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54. List the 6 traits of an epic and the 5 plot elements of an epic.