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Thursday 17 2025

Quiz: Anglo-Saxon & Middle English Period

Anglo-Saxon & Middle English Quiz

Quiz: Anglo-Saxon & Middle English Period

1. Which work is considered the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons?




2. Who is known as the father of English prose for his translations?




3. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first compiled during the reign of?




4. Who wrote “Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum”?




5. Which Anglo-Saxon poet is associated with religious hymns and was an illiterate cowherd?




6. Which poem is an elegy lamenting the loss of a lord and companions?




7. Which Norman king’s reign marks the beginning of the Middle English period?




8. Which Middle English work is written by Geoffrey Chaucer?




9. Which Middle English allegory was written by William Langland?




10. Which language heavily influenced Middle English vocabulary after 1066?




11. Which Middle English romance tells the story of a beheading challenge?




12. Which Middle English author was called the “Father of English Poetry”?




13. Which text is an example of Middle English prose by Sir Thomas Malory?




14. Which Middle English poet also wrote in Latin and French?




15. Which Middle English poem is written in alliterative verse and part of the Pearl Manuscript?




16. Who is the dreamer in “Piers Plowman”?




17. Which Middle English poet was a contemporary of Chaucer?




18. Which text is a debate poem between two birds in Middle English?




19. Which Middle English dialect became the basis for Standard English?




20. Which work is an early Middle English chronicle of Britain?




21. Who translated Boethius’s *Consolation of Philosophy* into Old English?




22. Which Middle English religious prose work is written for anchoresses?




23. Which poem is a lament by a wife separated from her husband in Anglo-Saxon literature?




24. *Ormulum* is a Middle English work focused on what?




25. *Pearl* is an allegorical poem written in which Middle English dialect?




26. Which Middle English poet wrote *Confessio Amantis*?




27. The Anglo-Norman period introduced which major influence into English?




28. Which Anglo-Saxon homilist was Archbishop of York?




29. Which Middle English poet is sometimes called the “moral Gower”?




30. Which poem reflects the transient nature of life in Anglo-Saxon elegy?




31. Which Middle English romance features a Danish hero?




32. Which Anglo-Saxon saint wrote hymns in Latin?




33. Which Middle English poet is known for *Laureate* style courtly poetry?




34. *Cursor Mundi* is a Middle English text about?




35. Which work by Chaucer is a dream vision?




36. Which Middle English text is a prose chronicle of history?




37. Which Middle English poet lamented the death of Chaucer?




38. Which Middle English poem is a Breton lai?




39. Which Anglo-Saxon poem describes the Crucifixion from the Cross’s viewpoint?




40. Which Middle English text contains Arthurian legends in prose?




41. Which Middle English poem is a dialogue between husband and wife?




42. Which Middle English poet wrote *Troilus and Criseyde*?




43. Which Middle English text was written by Robert Mannyng?




44. Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England?




45. Which Middle English poem mourns the death of a child?




46. Who wrote *House of Fame*?




47. Which Middle English work describes visions of the afterlife?




48. Which Anglo-Saxon king defeated the Vikings at Edington?




49. Which Middle English poet wrote *Complaint of Venus*?




50. Which Middle English poem is part of the *Alliterative Revival*?




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