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Quiz: Literature in the Middle Ages
- Which hero of an Old English epic poem becomes king of the Geats and is mortally wounded in defeating a dragon?
- Who wrote in Middle English the collection of twenty-four stories known as The Canterbury Tales? And at the end of which century?
- The Canterbury Tales feature a group of pilgrims as they travel to Canterbury to visit the shrine of which saint?
- Considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages, who in 1321 completed the Divine Comedy?
- The Domesday Book is our earliest public record and was a remarkable survey completed in which year?
- What name is given to the first part of the Divine Comedy?
- Who wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People in about AD 731?
- Book of the Marvels of the World is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories by which explorer?
- Which book was completed by Sir Thomas Malory around 1470 and published in print by William Caxton?
- Name the famous Middle English narrative poem by William Langland?
- Thomas of Britain is best remembered for which Old French poem?
- Name the collection of short stories which is the most notable work of the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio?
Answers
- Beowulf
- Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century (between 1387 and 1400)
- Saint Thomas Becket (at Canterbury Cathedral)
- Dante, Dante Alighieri
- 1086
- Inferno
- The Venerable Bede
- Marco Polo (in English this book is more commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo)
- Le Morte d'Arthur
- Piers Plowman
- Tristan
- The Decameron