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Some examples from this set of practice questions
1.
What was a crucial aspect of the Norman Conquest?
Answer: The conqueror placed his men in all positions of power.
2.
What happened to literature after the loss of Normandy in 1204?
Answer: led to an interest in non-Norman southern and Breton French forms of literature, such as lyrics, romances, lais, fabliaux and fables
3.
Why did the Chancery Standard become the standard?
Answer: Because William Caxton adopted it and he set up his printing press in Westminster rather than London
4.
What is comitatus?
Answer: the lord and his loyal band of warriors
5.
How did standard Old English derive its strength?
Answer: The military, economic and political dominance of the area in which it originated = Wessex
6.
Explain what a fabliaux is?
Answer: - Short tales set in an urban setting - Low culture: jokes about sex, food, shit - Aided by a trickster or helper to gain object at cost of someone else - Romance themes are abused in fabliaux
7.
What are the three main branches of literature?
Answer: poetry, prose fiction and drama
8.
What are the five major dialects of Middle English?
Answer: - northern - midland - east anglian - south eastern - south western
9.
What are two roughly distinguishable principles of selection in histories?
Answer: - for the author to follow a topic chronologically - deals comprehensively with a single complex of events
10.
What is a possible modern distinction of the middle ages?
Answer: - Early middle ages - high middle ages - late middle ages
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