Course Name: Twelfth Grade English 1: Early British Literature Student: Aguistin Spaan Course ID: ENGH043060 ID: G87557040 Submittal: 51 Progress Test 1 This Progress Test covers the course materials that were assigned in Units 1 and 2. Although the progress test is similar in style to the unit evaluations, the progress test is a closed-book, proctored test. You may not have access to notes or any of the course materials while you are taking the test. It is important that you do your own work. Select the response that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Chaucer describes the Pardoner's hair as "rat-tails" primarily to a. b. c. ____ 2. In A History of the English Church and People, Ireland's climate is ________compared to Britain's climate. a. b. c. ____ 3. reiterate the Franklin's obsession with food. emphasize the Franklin's personal cleanliness. symbolize the Franklin's purity of heart. How is the perspective of medieval life presented in "Get Up and Bar the Door" different from that presented in the other ballads? a. b. c. ____ 6. it is a long poem that tells a story about a legendary hero. it is about terrible monsters and dragons who overcome good. it is about real events and real people of long ago. Chaucer calls the Franklin's girdle "white as morning milk" to a. b. c. ____ 5. superior wetter colder A characteristic of an epic poem is that a. b. c. ____ 4. imply moral corruption. provide comic relief. suggest the Pardoner's obsession with current fashions. This ballad expresses a more romantic view of life and love than the other ballads. This ballad lacks the same sense of humor in addressing medieval attitudes as the other ballads have. This ballad presents a humorous and exaggerated look at married life, not a romanticized view of love. The story of ________is the first part of "The Seafarer." a. b. c. a sailor's conversion to Christianity a man's life on the sea an exile's lament for his country ____ 7. Which of the following events from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight conveys a sense of the supernatural? a. b. c. ____ 8. "Barbara Allan" laments a. b. c. ____ 9. The Green Knight challenges King Arthur's knights. Sir Gawain arrives at the Green Castle and finds it hideous. The Green Knight does not die from Sir Gawain's blow. Sir John's murder of Barbara. that Sir John and Barbara were unable to express their love in life. Barbara knew what was happening, but Sir John did not. In The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim who ran a profitable business selling fake holy relics was the a. b. c. Merchant. Pardoner. Summoner. ____ 10. There are _____lines in a stanza of a ballad. a. b. c. four three five ____ 11. In "Get Up and Bar the Door," the husband and wife argue over who is to bar the door. a. b. True False ____ 12. The purpose of Chaucer using the pilgrimage in The Canterbury Tales is to a. b. c. emphasize the characters' religious aspirations. describe the rigors of medieval life. frame the stories told by individual characters. ____ 13. The most historically accurate quotation from A History of the English Church and People based on the details in the quote is a. b. c. "I have heard that folk suffering from snakebite have drunk water in which scrapings from the leaves of books from Ireland have been steeped . . . " "As Saint Basil says: ‘Water receives its heat when it flows across certain metals, and becomes hot . . . '" "On the opposite side of Britain, which lies open to the boundless ocean, lie the isles of Orcades." ____ 14. A possible interpretation of "Lord Randall" involves a. b. c. an illicit love affair. the robbery of an elderly couple. a poisoning. ____ 15. The following is a quote from A History of the English Church and People. "Having no women with them, these Picts asked wives of the Scots, who consented on condition that, when any dispute arose, they should choose a king from the female royal line rather than the male." What does this quote show? a. b. c. Picts believed Scots women brought a higher social status. Scots wanted political influence in the Pict royal court. Scots women were eager to marry Pict men. ____ 16. In Beowulf, shortened metaphors such as "shadow of death" and "hell-forged hands" are a. b. c. characterizations. allusions. kennings. ____ 17. An example of direct characterization is a. b. c. "He was an honest worker, good and true . . . " "Children were afraid when he appeared." " . . . His mighty mouth was like a furnace door." ____ 18. Anglo-Saxon poetry is only a written art, not an oral one. a. b. True False ____ 19. We know that Lord Randall's dogs were poisoned by his lover's rival suitor. a. b. True False ____ 20. Sir Gawain volunteers to fight the Green Knight in the story Sir Gawain and the Green Knight because a. b. c. he wants to protect the queen. he wants to protect the honor of his king and fellow knights. he wants to settle an old dispute he has with the Green Knight. ____ 21. A Celtic chieftain from the fifth or sixth century is believed to be the source for King Arthur. a. b. True False ____ 22. _______is used in The Canterbury Tales when the narrator says he plans to "give account of all their words and dealings, / Using their very phrases as they fell." a. b. c. Indirect characterization Direct characterization Dramatic characterization ____ 23. Which of the following parts of Morte d'Arthur involves an element of the supernatural? a. b. c. King Arthur's campaign against Sir Lancelot the death of Sir Lucan the Butler the catching of King Arthur's sword ____ 24. Women in medieval times were viewed as __________according to the actions of the ladies in "Twa Corbies" and "Lord Randall." a. b. c. highly respected and loved unwitting victims of chivalry and romance untrustworthy and dangerous ____ 25. A ballad contains only one verse. a. b. True False ____ 26. We see Christianity being spread by The Venerable Bede by his a. b. c. claiming to be the reincarnation of St. John the Apostle. writing of historical accounts from a Christian perspective. claiming to be the reincarnation of St. John the Apostle. ____ 27. What theme does Chaucer convey in the "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales? a. b. c. the basic evil of mankind the infinite variety of human nature the pitfalls of sensual pleasure ____ 28. One of the ways Beowulf shows he is an honorable man is when a. b. c. he is willing to risk his life in order to earn fame by killing Grendel. he refuses to use a sword to fight Grendel because Grendel has none. he tells Hrothgar that he (Beowulf) is a cousin of Higlac. ____ 29. The author of "Twa Corbies" presents the medieval attitude toward life and death as a. b. c. critical and serious. accepting. vengeful and angry. ____ 30. The outcome of earthly success, according to "The Seafarer" is a. b. c. God punishes injustice committed by the wealthy. wealth and glory fade in a brief amount of time. the righteous are rewarded with wealth and glory by Fate. ____ 31. "The Seafarer" differs from Beowulf because a. b. c. "The Seafarer" says that one must do no harm and be humble. "The Seafarer" is an epic tale of conquest. Beowulf denounces warfare under any circumstances. ____ 32. At the end of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the Green Knight paraphrases the following to Sir Gawain: a. b. c. a leopard never changes his spots. live by the sword and die by the sword. admit your mistakes and move on. ____ 33. As revenge for the death of her son, Grendel's mother kills a. b. c. Wiglaf. Hrothgar. Hrothgar's friend. ____ 34. The literature from the Anglo Saxon period of England a. b. c. was never expressed orally. always used rhyming verse. reflected oral poetry. ____ 35. Sir Bedivere is motivated by ______in Morte d'Arthur to disobey King Arthur's order to throw the king's sword into the lake. a. b. c. evil practical common sense ambition ____ 36. Which of the following characteristics is shown in the quotation from The Canterbury Tales: "He was an easy man in penance-giving / Where he could hope to make a decent living; / It's a sure sign whenever gifts are given / To a poor Order that a man's well shriven, / And should he give enough he knew in verity / The penitent repented in sincerity." a. b. c. The storyteller gave out easy penances and absolution because he couldn't stand to criticize others. The storyteller knew that if he extracted a large enough price for the sin, the penitent person would truly feel sorry for what he had done. The storyteller gave out easy penances and absolution so he could make money. ____ 37. The structure of Anglo-Saxon society was referred to as tenancy. a. b. True False ____ 38. For the time in which Bede wrote, he probably got his most reliable information that Britain had "twenty-eight noble cities" from the a. b. c. records from a monastic library. testimony from sailors. accounts in letters. ____ 39. Old English is a Germanic language. a. b. True False ____ 40. Knowledge of the historical context of Anglo-Saxon poetry helps a reader understand why certain things occur by a. b. c. helping them restate in their own words what a poem is saying. giving them clues about the situation of the time when it was written. showing them how important correct spelling and grammar are. ____ 41. The underlined words in the following quote from Beowulf are best paraphrased as _______.". . . they could hack at Grendel / From every side, trying to open / A path for his evil soul, but their points / Could not hurt him . . ." a. b. c. to drive him out of the hall to kill him to turn his soul to God ____ 42. Modern English and Old English share similarities in vowel sounds. a. b. True False ____ 43. A cuckoo is described as a "summer's sentinel," which is an example of a a. b. c. scop. kenning. predicate. ____ 44. "The monster's / Thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws . . . "(Beowulf) means a. b. c. the monster is intelligent. the monster has sharp claws. the monster is hungry. ____ 45. What is the speaker's view of death in the following lines of "The Seafarer"? "No man has ever faced the dawn / Certain which of Fate's three threats would fall: illness, or age, or an enemy's / Sword, snatching the life from his soul." a. b. c. A force beyond human control decides matters of life and death. People can triumph over death with determination and hard work. Religious people do not die. ____ 46. In The Canterbury Tales, the Knight is the Squire's older brother. a. b. True False ____ 47. The person that could be left out in a summary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and not change its meaning would be a. b. c. the lady of the castle near the Green Chapel. the lord of the castle near the Green Chapel. Guinevere. ____ 48. Legendary events are commonly found in epics. a. b. True False ____ 49. What weapon does Beowulf use to kill Grendel? a. b. c. his sword his hands a dagger ____ 50. Which of the following statements illustrates why not all of the information Bede wrote in A History of the English Church and People is not accurate? a. b. c. Bede usually did not tell where he got his information. Bede used his own observations for much of his information. Bede sometimes accepted unlikely stories as true. Carefully review your answers on this progress test and make any corrections you feel are necessary. 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