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MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

Name: _____________________________________________
Year and Section: _____________________ Date: ________________

General Instructions:
Follow the directions given in each type of test.
Cheating in any form is strictly prohibited.
Erasure or alteration (in any form) means WRONG.
Finish answering the exam in one hour.
Break a leg! God Speed!

Test I. Multiple Choice (Items 1-20)

Direction: Read the questions carefully and choose the correct answer. Write the letter of your choice
before the number.

___1. It is the reason why there was a definite decline of French language while the English language
rises as a chief language during mid-14 th – mid-15th century.
A. The Rise of the People
B. The Hundred Years’ War of the English and French
C. Norman nobility declared allegiance to France
D. The Canterbury Tales
___2. He is the father of English poetry.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. William Langland
C. John Wycliffe
D. The Canterbury Tales
___3. Which is different in the following Ballads?
A. Robin Hood and the Monk
B.The Hunting of the Cheviot
C. The Battle of Harlaw
D. Sir Patrick Spens
___4. It is the earliest surviving Robin Hood text.
A. Robin Hood and the Monkey
B. Robin Hood
C. Robin Hood Jr. and the Monk
D. Robin Hood and the Monk
___5. It is a band consists of a “seven score” group of fellow outlawed yeomen.
A. Mary Men
B. Merry Men
C. Merry Women
D. Merry Christmas
___6. It is a poem that tells a story, usually in four line stanzas called quatrains.
A. Baldad
B. Romance
C. Prose
D. Ballad

___7. It is a narrative written in prose or verse and concerned with adventure, courtly love and chivalry.
A. Ballad
B. Canterbury Tales
C. Legend
D. Arthurian Romance
___8.The guardian of Holy Grail who suffered from a wound that would not heal.
A. King Fisher
B. Arthurian Knights
C. King Arthur
D. Fisher King
___9. He was a member of the Saxon nobility called Robin of Loxely.
A. Robin Bood
B. King Arthur
C. King Arthar
D. Robin Hood
___10. Which of the following Ballads is different?
A. The Uniquiet Grave
B. Kemp Owen
C. Thomas Rhymer
D. Child Waters
___11. This is a kind of play which has Biblical motives.
A. Mystery Play
B. Morality Play
C. Interludes
D. Renaissance Drama
___12.He set up the first English printing press in 1476.
A. William Caxton
B. Sir Thomas Malory
C. Wycliffe
D. Langland
___13. He is responsible in translating the Bible from Latin to vernacular English.
A. Sir Thomas Malory
B. John Wycliffe
C. William Langland
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
___14. Which of the following ballads is different?
A. Fair Annie
B. Young Beichan
C. Child Waters
D. Robin Hood
___15. He was a medieval, mythological figure who was the head of the Kingdom Camelot and the
Knights of the Round Table.
A. King Arthar
B. Geoffrey of Monmouth
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. King Arthur
___16. He was King Arthur’s earliest “biographer”, and one of the most important authors of twelfth-
century Britain.
A. Geoffrey of Mamouth
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Geoffrey of Monmouth
d. William Langland
___17. It is an object sought by the Knights of Arthurian legend as a part of quest that particularly from
the 13th century and had Christian meaning.
A. The Holy Grial
B. The Holy Grail
C. The Holy Trail
D. The Crucifix
___18. It is the most wide-spread and influential form of romance that emerged during the Middle Ages.
A. Ballad
B. Arthurian Romance
C. Romance
D. Fiction
___19. It is a narrative genre in literature that involves a mysterious, adventurous, or spiritual storyline
where the focus is on a quest that involves bravery and strong values.
A. Fiction
B. Non-Fiction
C. Ballad
D. Romance
___20. It is a long poem or a collection of stories in verse. The story is about a party of pilgrims, the poet
among them, traveling to Canterbury to visit the grave of Thomas a Becket.
A. The Vision of Pier’s Plowman
B. The Rise of the People
C. The Ballad
D. The Canterbury Tales

II. True or False (Items 21-30)

Direction: Write T before the number if the statement is correct. If the statement is false, write Fand the
rightwordbefore the numberto make the statement correct.
__________21.The Canterbury Tales is a short poem, or a collection of stories in verse.
__________22. Geoffrey Chaucer is the “Father of English Prose”.
__________23. The Rise of the People refers to the Rise of the Middle Class.
___________24. John Wycliffe also become a priest but used his position to speak out against what he
saw at corruption and heresy in the Catholic Church.
__________25. The poem “The Vision of Pier’s Plowman” depicts a time in history associated with major
upheaval as corruption existed both among statesman and within the church.
_______26. John Wycliffe was an English protestant theologian in the 1300’s known best for his role in
translating the Bible into vernacular English.
______ 27. The Vision of Pier’s Plowman revolves around a series of dream-visions or “pleasures”
meaning “steps” in Latin.
_______28. Geoffrey Chaucer originally planned to have over 100 stories be part of Canterbury tales but
only 24 tales made it into the actual publication.
_______29. The Vision of Pier’s Plowman is an allegorical narrative poem by William Shakespeare.
_______30.In 1382, John Wycliffe translated the Latin Vulgate into French Language.

Test III. Identification

Direction: Identify what is asked and write your answer before the number.

____31. Dream-vision by Geoffrey Chaucer, written in the 1380s. The fourth and final work of the genre
that Chaucer composed. In the “Prologue” the god of love is angry at Chaucer for writing about so many
women who betray men.

____32. A poem which has 699 lines and has the form of a dream vision of the narrator. This poem is
one of the first references to the idea that St. Valentine’s Day was a special day for lovers.

____33. This is the story of Robin and Little John fighting with a proud potter in “Weinberg”, who has
refused to pay a penny of passage for crossing their territory.

____34. One of the 24 stories of Canterbury Tales. It is a story of a young man and known as mighty and
rich. He has a wife named Prudence and a daughter who was called Sophie. One day, old enemies break
their houses as they beat the protagonist’s wife and grievously injured their daughter.

____35. They are the followers of John Wycliffe. They were an anticlerical group who were committed in
opposing the institutionalized Catholic Church.

____36. He was the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and “the first finder of English
Language”.

____37. The occupation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s father.

____38. - 39. These two tales of Canterbury Tales are accurate examples of the rising Middle Class.

____40. The system that the Middle Class people break free during the pilgrimage to Canterbury.
IV. Essay

Direction. Explain the following quotes from “Canterbury Tales” with five sentences only (5 points each.)

41. “It seems to me that poverty is an eyeglass through which one may see his true friends.”
-Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales”

42. “Earn what you can since everything for sale.”

-Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

43. “We know little of the things for which we pray.”

-Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

44. “The man who has no wife is no Cuckold.”

-Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

45. “Time and tide wait for no man. He was as fresh as is the month of May. The life so short, the crafts
so long to learn.”
-Geoffrey Chaucer