ANG210 QUIZ#2

Question 1

The political conflict of interest engendered that the Plantagenet kings of England exploited but also eventually led to their demise on the European continent

Answer 1

They were dukes of Normandy, and they were also the kings of England

Question 2

King John I «Jean san-terre» of England and the personal circumstances that led to England’s ultimate and permanent loss of territory in France

Answer 2

Fell in love with a woman who belonged to another important man, the king of France summoned him to court, he had to answer for his crime. He refused to summon for the king of France. The king therefore took back Normandy from John.

Question 3

The 1362 Statute of Pleading

Answer 3

It made the English language become the main language of England.

Question 4

The English-language prologue & epilogue in French-language medieval literature in England: their original purpose

Answer 4

Normands did not understand French well anymore. They made the prologue in english, the main story itself in French, and the epilogue in english so that they could understand

Question 5

How Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales repurposed and revolutionized the French literary genre of the “tale”

Answer 5

He wrote the tales entirely in english from prologue, to story, to epilogue. He rendered the prologue and epilogue unimportant.

Question 6

The Renaissance: all across Europe including England

Answer 6

The Renaissance revived lost knowledge from the Roman and Greek civilizations, influencing the development of the English language and making it what it has become today.

Question 7

Examples of Shakespeare’s grammatically fluid use of words in English

Answer 7

Uncle me no uncle, He dukes it well

Question 8

The King James Version of the Bible

Answer 8

The first ever English bible there ever was.

Question 9

Native-American words that entered the English language

Answer 9

Skunk, shut eye, long time no see, raccoon
British navigators encountered native Americans

Question 10

English-language terms whose meanings have changed in Britain but not in North America

Answer 10

1. Mad = crazy in contemporary British English and angry in contemporary NA
2. Sick = not feeling well

Question 11

North-American English words that come from Dutch–examples and an explanation

Answer 11

Boss, Waffle, Yankee
At one point New York was Dutch and was called New Amsterdam. This Dutch colony was seeded to the English and kept a bit of its Dutch background