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English Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Romantic Period
English Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Romantic Period
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1
Shakespeare wrote during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
True
False
2
Who is considered the author of "The Canterbury Tales"?
John Milton
Sir Thomas Malory
Jonathan Swift
Geoffrey Chaucer
3
Medieval literature was written in Old English until Chaucer introduced Middle English
False
True
4
What makes
Paradise Lost
unique?
Historical play about the British monarchy
First English novel with experimental prose
Medieval romance glorifying chivalry
Epic poem about Adam and Eve, free will, and rebellion
5
Gothic literature was influenced by Neoclassicism
False
True
6
Jonathan Swift’s
Gulliver’s Travels
is primarily a children’s adventure story
True
False
7
Why was Latin the main written language after the Anglo-Saxon invasions?
Celtic languages were banned.
It was the language of the Church and scholarship
Anglo-Saxons spoke Latin as their native language
The Celts refused to write anything down
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Which famous work is considered the first great epic of English literature?
Paradise Lost
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
