MIDDLE ENGLISH(UPTO CHAUCER): Do you know the answers to these???

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1.  Who wrote Brut? When?

2.  Who was Lazamon?

3.  What is the chief source of Lazamon’s Brut?

4.  What is the Story of England about?

5.  Who wrote Handlyng Synne? On which work is it based?

6.  In which dialect is Ormulum written? What is the metre of the work?

7.   What is the Cursor Mundi?

8.  Name the alliterative poems of the ME period? In which dialect is it written?

9.  Name any two romances dealing with English history?

10.   Which work is considered to be the finest of all English romances?

11.    What is the the theme of Ancrene Riwle?

12.            When did Richard II ascend the throne of England? Which dynasty was he founder of?

13.       Who was the first poet to be buried in West Minister Abbey? What is this place called?

14.  What is the source of The Romaunt of the Rose?

15.   Name any two works from Chaucer’s French phase.

16.    Name any two works from Chaucer’s Italian phase.

17.  How many tales are there in The Legend of Good Women? What was the initial plan?

18.    Which is the first known attempt in English poem to use heroic couplet?

19.  How many pilgrims were there in The Canterbury Tales?

20.     How many tales of The Canterbury Tales did Chaucer complete and how many were left partly complete?                                                                                                                                                        .  .Which are the two prose tales in The Canterbury Tales?

22.   In which meter was The Canterbury Tales written? What is it also known as?

23.State any two features of Chaucer’s poetry.

2  4 . What is the full title of Langland’s poem?

25. Name a few allegorical figures of Piers Plowman.

26. Which are the three-chief works of John Gower?

2 7. Who wrote Morte d’Arthur?

28 . Name any two popular ballads of the ME period.

29.    Name some letter writers of the ME period.

30.        Which is the earliest example of an alliterative poem written in 1352?

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