quiz 9

Question 1

T/F: people were accustomed two having rats and fleas almost everywhere

Answer 1

True

Question 2

T/F: during the plague, both divine and civil law were stringently enforced?

Answer 2

False

Question 3

In what country was the peasant revolt of 1381?

Answer 3

England

Question 4

Is the English one most battles during the hundred years war, why did they withdraw in 1429?

Answer 4

Financial and physical burden was too great

Question 5

Which proved more detrimental to church prestige?

a. the Avignon papacy or b. The great schism

Answer 5

B. the great schism

Question 6

What term is used to describe the emergence in art and literature of “a new Fidelity to nature and to personal experience in everyday world”?

Answer 6

Social realism

Question 7

According to Philippa, whose consent must a just law have?

Answer 7

Those whom they effect

Question 8

According to de Pisan, why do women usually know less than men?

Answer 8

They are not involved in many different situations

Question 9

What event in 1204/5 led to the linguistic assimilation of the Norman nobility in England?

Answer 9

King John lost the French king

Question 10

In what year did Edward III change the official language of the courts of law back to English?

Answer 10

1362

Question 11

What percentage of Anglo-Saxon words survived into middle English?

Answer 11

25%

Question 12

“Alliterative revival” poets ( the pearl poet) delineated line length with four stressed syllables. How does Chaucer indicate the end of the line?

Answer 12

Rhyme

Question 13

What are the two basic steps in Chaucers strategy of humor?

Answer 13

1. Positive generality 2. Specific negativity

Question 14

T/F: the 24 tales Chaucer completed reflect a narrow range of story types and possible narrators?

Answer 14

False

Question 15

With what is the Knights tunic all stained?

Answer 15

Rusty mail coats

Question 16

What did the Squire right?

Answer 16

Songs

Question 17

For what did the prioress cry “if it blood or was dead”?

Answer 17

A mouse

Question 18

T/F: the monk adhered closely to the rules that were “old and somewhat strict”?

Answer 18

False

Question 19

What did the friar do “for private begging turf”?

Answer 19

Laid out rent

Question 20

of any money the student (Oxford clerk) scraped together, on what did it get spent?

Answer 20

I’m books in his learning

Question 21

What would the wives of the five guildsmen like to be named/

Answer 21

My lady

Question 22

With whom did Dr. of medicine have a profitable friendship not recently begun?

Answer 22

Apothecaries

Question 23

How many times has the wife of Bath been married?

Answer 23

5

Question 24

How did the Parson show how his sheep should live?

Answer 24

His own cleanliness

Question 25

What didn't mean for the Miller to have a thumb of gold, alright?

Answer 25

He was a cheater

Question 26

What fine trade had the reeve learned as a young man?

Answer 26

A skilled carpenter

Question 27

According to the summoner, what's the only reason one should "here archdeacon's curses?

Answer 27

Men's souls were found in their purses

Question 28

With what was the pardoners wallet, hot from Rome, stuffed to the brim?

Answer 28

Pardons

Question 29

How many stories total, coming plus going, Was each pilgrim supposed to tell?

Answer 29

4