81. Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450 the?
a. Normans
b. Geats
c. Celts
d. Anglo-Saxons
82. Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
a. French
b. Norwegian
c. Spanish
d. Hungarian
83. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
a. Henry II
b. Henry III
c. Louis XIV
d. Edward III
84. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
a. Bede
b. Sir Thomas Malory
c. Geoffrey Chaucer
d. Caedmon
85. Who was the first English Christian king?
a. Richard III
b. Richard II
c. Henry II
d. Ethelbert
86. In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
a. banishment to Asia
b. everlasting shame
c. conversion to Christianity
d. mild melancholia
87. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:
a. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
b. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
c. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
d. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
88. The use of “whale-road”for sea and “life-house”for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
a. symbolism
b. simile
c. metonymy
d. kenning
89. How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?
a. Saint Patrick’s mission
b. the Fourth Lateran Council
c. the execution of William Sawtre
d. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
90. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
a. Latin
b. Dutch
c. French
d. Celtic