1What English was in use from the 12th to 15th centuries?
Middle English
2What is the name of an epic of Old English, dating from as early as the 8th century?
Beowulf
3With who did Beowulf have his last battle?
With a dragon
4Who are the earliest-known English poets?
Caedmon and Cynewulf
5Who wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People?
Bede the Venerable
6____ began under Alfred the Great's auspices in the 9th century.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
7Which English poet is considered the "father of English literature"?
Geoffrey Chaucer
8Geoffrey Chaucer is best know for ____.
Canterbury Tales
9Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to be buried in ____ in Westminster Abbey.
The Poet's Corner
10Who established the first printing press in London in 1476?
William Caxton
11In ____ the main characters' primary quest is to obtain the mythical Holy Grail.
The Arthurian legends
12What is the Holy Grail?
a cup believed to have been used by Jesus Christ at the meal before his death
13Who wrote the "Utopia"?
Sir Thomas More
14Where is Robin Hood said to have lived?
In Sherwood Forest near Nottingham
15Who was Robin Hood's enemy?
The Sheriff of Nottingham
16The Shepheardes Calender, The Faerie Queene and Epithalamion were written by ____.
Edmund Spenser
17Who wrote Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Tamburlaine the Great?
Christopher Marlowe
18Where was William Shakespeare born?
Stratford-upon-Avon
19When did William Shakespeare join the Chamberlain's Men?
1588
20How many plays did Shakespeare write for the London stage?
36
21What is the name of Shakespeare's longest play?
Hamlet