1. Medieval Trivia and Not so Trivial Test Review

2. 1.
What year marks the official beginning of the medieval period?

3. Answer
1066

4. 2
Who invaded England in 1066?

5. Answer
William the Conqueror from Normandy

6. 3
What language did William the Conqueror bring to England?

7. Answer
French

8. 4
What governmental, social, and military system did William the Conqueror bring to England?

9. Answer
Feudalism

10. Question 5
What was the code of behavior expected of knights called?

11. Answer
Chivalry

12. Question 6
What three loyalties did a knight have?

13. Answer
God
Country (or king)
Lady

14. 7
What was the purpose of the crusades?

15. Answer
To reclaim the holy lands from the “infidels.”

16. 8
Name three causes for the end of feudalism

17. Answer
Bubonic plague that killed ¼ of the population, creating a demand for skilled laborers and therefore a rise in middle class
Conversion to money system over land
Invention of the long bow and gunpowder that could penetrate the armor of a knight

18. 9
How was the Bubonic Plague spread?

19. Answer
Through flea-bitten rats

20. 10
Who wrote Morte d’Arthur?

21. Answer
Thomas Malory

22. 11
Who was involved in the love triangle in Morte D’Arthur?

23. Answer
King Arthur
Guenevere
Lancelot

24. 12
How did Sir Lucan show his loyalty to Arthur?

25. Answer
He moved the wounded Arthur causing his own death.

26. 13
What terrible coincidence caused the fighting between Mordred and Arthur’s men?

27. Answer
A knight raising his sword to kill a snake

28. 14
Who appeared to Arthur in a dream, warning him that he should delay the battle against Mordred?

29. Answer
Gawain

30. 15
Who of Arthur’s knights throws Excalibur into the lake?

31. Answer
Sir Bedevere

32. 16
How did Sir Gawain show that he was imperfect?

33. Answer
He accepted the green sash from the lady of the castle

34. 17
The Green Knight was also which other character in the romance?

35. Answer
The lord of the castle

36. 18
Name the three animals that the lord of the castle hunted

37. Answer
1. deer
2. boar
3. fox

38. 19
Who were Mordred’s parents?

39. Answer
Arthur and Morgause (his half sister)

40. 20
Name two ballads that are in question/ answer format.

41. Answer
“Lord Randall”
“Edward, Edward”
“Ballad of Birmingham”

42. 21
What is a ballad stanza?

43. Answer
4 line stanza, second and fourth lines rhyme

44. 22 Which ballad concerns a double suicide?
Which ballad describes a murder of a father?
Which ballad describes unquestioned loyalty to a king?

45. Answer
“Barbara Allen”
“Edward, Edward”
“Sir Patrick Spense”

46. 23 Which ballad concerns poison by a lover?
Which ballad involves a deserted knight’s death?
Which ballad involves a dispute between a husband and wife?

47. Answer
1. “Lord Randall”
2. “Barbara Allen
3. “Twa Corbies”

48. 24
Which ballad concerns a ghostly visit of three sons to their mother?

49. Answer
“The Ballad of Usher’s Well”

50. 25
Name three characteristics of ballads

51. Answer Written to be sung Written for common people
Use such techniques as incremental repetition, dialect, question/answer format
Elements include supernatural and sensational stories

52. 26
What are the three types of pilgrims that go on the pilgrimage to Canterbury?

53. Answer
Religious
Feudal
Town

54. 27
Name 2 corrupt religious figures and explain their corruption.

55. 28
Name two moral pilgrims and tell why.

56. 29
Name two pilgrims who are good at what they do?

57. 30.
Explain: “Damned by faint praise” as it applies to the Canterbury Tales.

58. 31
What are the signs that a pilgrim is wealthy?

59. 32 Generally, explain the gist of the following tales: 1. knight
2. pardoner
3. Oxford cleric
4. Wife of Bath

60. 33
Name two ways that “Once Upon a Time” is like Canterbury Tales.

61. Answer
1. Satire
2. frame story

62. 34
Name two methods of satire used by Jonathan Swift in “A Modest Proposal.”