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English Literature CLEP I (Anglo-Saxon to the Interregnum) - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 269 times
- The average score is 12 of 27
Answer Stats
| Period | Title | Type | Author | Answer | % Correct |
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| Anglo-Saxon (c. 750) | "_____" | Epic Poem | Anonymous | Beowulf | 93%
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| Medieval (c. 1386) | "The _______ _____" | Poem made up of 24 stories in verse and prose | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | 91%
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| Tudor (1516) | "_____"; full title translated from Latin: "Of a republic's best state and of the new island ______" | Fiction, political philosophy, humanism | Sir Thomas More | Utopia | 71%
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| Elizabethan (c. 1590-1596) | "The Faerie Queene" | Epic allegorical poem | Edmund Spenser | 68%
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| Elizabethan (c. 1580s) | "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" and "Dr. Faustus" | Poem, Drama | Christopher Marlowe | 65%
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| Anglo-Saxon (731) | "Ecclesiastical History of the British Nation" | Historical Nonfiction | Venerable Bede | 62%
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| Medieval (c. 14th cen.) | "Sir ____ and the ____ _____" | Alliterative Arthurian Poem | usually attributed to the Pearl Poet | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 60%
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| Jacobean (c. 1609-1631) | "Death Be Not Proud", "Go and Catch a Falling Star", "The Canonization", and "The Flea" | Metaphysical Poetry | Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____ | John Donne | 55%
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| Medieval (c. 1469) | "Le Morte Darthur" | Arthurian prose | Sir ____ _____ | Sir Thomas Malory | 55%
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| Jacobean (c. 1605-1610) | "Volpone, or The Fox" and "The Alchemist" | Drama, "Comedy of Humors" | Ben Jonson | 47%
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| Medieval (c. 1369-1380s) | "Troilus and Criseyde", "The House of Fame", and "The Book of the Duchess" | Poems from the author's French and Italian style periods | Geoffrey Chaucer | 46%
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| Interregnum (c. 1640s) | "To His Coy Mistress" | Metaphysical Poem | Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____ | Andrew Marvell | 45%
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| Medieval (c. 1470) | "______"; characters include: Death, Good Deeds, and Kindred | Allegorical morality play | Anonymous | Everyman | 38%
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| Elizabethan (c. 1577-1585) | "Arcadia" a pastoral romance; and "The Defence of Poesy" a literary criticism | Prose | Sir Philip Sidney | 38%
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| Anglo-Saxon (840-c.900) | Translations into English, including "Ecclesiastical History...", directed writing of "The Ango-Saxon Chronicle" | Old English Translations | King Alfred | 37%
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| Jacobean (c. 1612 - 1625) | "Of Marriage and Single Life", "Of Truth", and "Of Riches" | Essays, philosophy | Francis Bacon | 36%
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| Medieval (c. 1370-1390) | "Piers Plowman"; full title "The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman" | Alliterative Allegorical Poem | William Langland | 35%
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| Elizabethan (c.1580-90s) | "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" and "Farewell, False Love" | Poetry | Sir Walter Raleigh | 28%
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| Elizabethan (c. 1580-1584) | "______ and ______" | Sequence of Petrarchan Sonnets | Sir Philip Sidney | Astrophel and Stella | 27%
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| Jacobean (c. 1620-1633) | "The Collar" and "Virtue" | Metaphysical Poetry | Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____ | George Herbert | 25%
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| Caroline Age (1642 & 1649) | "To Althea, from Prison" and "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" | Poetry | Cavelier Poet: _____ ______ | Richard Lovelace | 25%
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| Caroline Age (1648) | "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time" | Carpe Diem Poem | Cavelier Poet: ______ _______ | Robert Herrick | 25%
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| Jacobean (1611) | "The King James Version" | Bible in English vernacular | based heavily on the translations by _____ _____ | William Tyndale | 24%
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| Caroline Age (1637) | "______", written in memory of Milton's friend, Edward King, who drowned at sea | Pastoral Elegy | John Milton | Lycidas | 23%
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| Anglo-Saxon (c. 9th cen.) | "Dream of the Rood" | Christian/Dream Poem | Cynewulf | 21%
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| Caroline Age (c. 1630s) | "Song: Why so pale and wan fond lover?", "The Constant Lover", and "Ballad Upon a Wedding" | Poetry, drama | Cavelier Poet: Sir ___ _______ | Sir John Suckling | 19%
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| Caroline Age (c. 1630s) | "An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne" | Elegy | Cavelier Poet: _____ ____ | Thomas Carew | 15%
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