Describe book production in the medieval process as explained in your course notes.

In Gawain and the Green Knight, what is the purpose of the beheading incident?

According to your Unit 1 Course Notes, what is the time period of Old English?

“But he was lyk a maister or a pope” best describes which character?

How many original copies of Beowulf exist today?

Submit your multiple choice answers and ask your professor for the essay portion of this exam. Choose ONE of the following questions to answer as full as possible in an essay. It is expected for you to write about the literature that you have read in that unit; use examples as specifically as possibly from each piece of literature. DO NOT use outside research to answer these questions—your answers should be based on class notes and reading assignments. Please just use your own insights supported with examples from the assigned readings. 1. Trace the development of the English language from its earliest known form and the development of English literature beginning with Beowulf. What does literature teach us about the society in which it was created? 2. Discuss the religious tension illustrated in Beowulf and then explain the causes of the tension. Give specific examples from the poem of this tension. 3. Discuss the original oral nature of Beowulf. In what ways can you tell that it was an oral art form? Give examples. 4. What role do women play in the poem? What does the treatment of women tell about the society? Give examples.  

“A fat swan loved he best of any roast.” best describes which Canterbury character in a line taken from Chaucer’s General Prologue?

What percentage of your final grade is the homework?

In the Wife of Bathe’s Tale, what crime has the knight committed in the Wife’s tale?

What was the Anglo-Saxon historian who acted, sang tales and poetic praises for heroes and their families to record the history of the tribe called?