Lecture 1 test 2
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- Q1
What Germanic tribes invaded Britain in the 5th–7th centuries?
Frisians and Burgundians
Franks and Lombards
Goths and Vandals
Angles,Saxons, and Jutes
120s - Q2
What was the influence of Germanic tribes on British culture?
Introduced Roman legal systems
Established Celtic Christianity
Brought Old English language and warrior-ethos traditions
Popularized Greek philosophy
120s - Q3
What signs of the invasion of Germanic tribes remain in Modern English?
Latin-derived scientific terms
Celtic grammatical structures
French loanwords about governance
Place names ending in -ham (e.g., Birmingham)
120s - Q4
How were Germanic legends preserved? Who wrote them down?
Norman scribes after 1066
Roman historians like Tacitus
Viking skalds in runicin scriptions
Oral transmission by scops; later recorded by Christian monks
120s - Q5
The most famous Old English poem and its main characters:
The Seafarer – sailors and storms
The Wanderer – a lonely exile
The Dream of the Rood –Christ and the Cross
Beowulf– Beowulf, Grendel, Hrothgar
120s - Q6
When was Beowulf written? Who is its author?
7th century; Bede
5th century; King Alfred
8th–11th century; anonymous
12th century; Geoffrey Chaucer
120s - Q7
Beowulf’s plot and setting:
A hero battles Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon in 6th-century Scandinavia
Viking raids on Anglo-Saxon monasteries
A knight’s quest for the Holy Grail in Arthurian Britain
A tragic love story in Norman England
120s - Q8
Lifestyle in Beowulf’s era:
Urban trade centers with merchant guilds
Industrial mining and metalwork
Monastic scholarship and manuscript production
Agricultural communities focused on farming, feasting, and warfare
120s - Q9
Why is Beowulf socially/historically significant?
It reflects pre-Christian Germanic values and Old English linguistic roots
It documents the Norman Conquest
It inspired Shakespeare’s tragedies
It critiques medieval feudalism
120s - Q10
Key linguistic feature of Beowulf:
Iambic pentameter
Prose narrative
Rhyming couplets
Alliterative verse
120s - Q11
The Norman Duke who led the Conquest and their language:
William the Conqueror; Old Norman French
Henry II; Latin
Rollo; Middle English
Harold Godwinson; Old Norse
120s - Q12
Battle of Hastings: Date and outcome:
878 – Treaty of Wedmore
1066 –Norman conquest of England
1016 – Viking victory
1215 – Signing of Magna Carta
120s - Q13
Post-Conquest languages (12th–13th centuries) and linguistic impact:
Anglo-Saxon, Gaelic, Danish; simplified grammar
Middle English, Dutch, Welsh; loss of inflections
Celtic, Latin, Old Norse; Celtic revival
Old English, Old Norman French, Latin; English absorbed French vocabulary
120s - Q14
Danish influence on Old English:
Development of rhyming poetry
Introduction of Romanesque architecture
Simplification of grammatical inflections
Adoption of French courtly love themes
120s - Q15
Two major fields of English poetry:
Alliterative and rhyming
Religious and secular
Lyric and dramatic
Epic and sonnet
120s