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ENG IV
Period Overview Test – Study Guide
Anglo Saxon/Medieval to Restoration
Directions:
As we study each period in British history, you will be reading the corresponding chapter
overviews in your textbook. You will then be tested over the information. Use this guide to take
notes and to study for your test. Do not just copy down a sentence from the book. Instead, think
about the significance of each concept, person, or question given. That way you have a deeper
understanding of the period as a whole and will be better prepared for the test.
**Completion of this guide is worth one daily grade. Your study guide will be handed in on the
date of the test. Only handwritten work will be accepted
Due dates:
Anglo Saxon / Medieval: November 4th/5th
Renaissance: November 8th/11th
Restoration: November 14th/15th
Test Date: November 20th/21st
The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Period (pages 18-37)
Explain the significance of each of these terms or people, or answer the question.
1. What years encompass this time period? _________________________
2. This time period is also known as ________________________
3. Julius Cesar
4. King Arthur
5. Angles and Saxons
6. Old English (see yellow box on page 27)
7. Vikings
8. Alfred the Great
9. Edward the Confessor
10. Norman Conquest
11. wyrd
12. Why did Christianity appeal to the Anglo Saxons?
13. Augustine
14. monasteries
15. epic poems (see pages 38-39 in your book)
16. mead hall
17. scops
18. oral art form
19. Beowulf
20. lyric poems
21. Exeter Book (see pages 102-103)
22. Doomsday Book
23. William the Conqueror
24. Magna Carta
25. Hundred Year's War
26. Black Death
27. War of the Roses
28. What was the hierarchy of power under the feudal system?
29. chivalry
30. courtly love
31. Geoffrey Chaucer
32. ballads (see pages 216-217 in your book)
33. romances (see pages 228-229 in your book)
34. Middle English (see yellow box on page 32 of your textbook)
35. Describe the role of literature in this time period. Mention at least one specific text by title.
**This is not simple regurgitation of facts. You’ll have to think critically. (minimum 2
sentences).
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The Renaissance Period (pages 292-311)
1. What years encompass this time period? _________________________
2. The second half of the Renaissance period is also known as
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3. Sir Thomas More
4. Henry VII
5. Catherine of Aragon
6. Henry VIII
7. The Protestant Reformation
8. Church of England
9. Anne Boleyn
10. Puritans
11. Bloody Mary
12. Elizabeth I
13. Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh (additional information on page 312)
14. James I
15. Oliver Cromwell
16. Renaissance Man
17. How did the printing press affect British culture at this time?
18. Pastoral (additional information on page 313)
19. Elizabethan views on nature
20. Compare medieval theater to Elizabethan theater.
21. Ben Johnson (additional information on page 524)
22. Macbeth
23. humanism
24. Utopia
25. King James Bible (additional information on page 480-481)
26. John Milton (additional information on page 488)
27. John Donne (additional information on page 516)
28. Pilgrim’s Progress (additional information on page 504-505)
29. Cavalier poets
30. Metaphysical poetry (additional information on pages 514-515)
31. The great vowel shift (see yellow box page 305)
What contributions did Shakespeare make to the English Language and literature at this time?
List at least 3 significant contributions (other than titles of specific plays written). Include the
page number where you found the information. Additional information is available on pages 324,
342-347)
32. ________________________________________________________________________
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33. ________________________________________________________________________
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34. ________________________________________________________________________
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The Restoration Period (pages 560-577)
1. What years encompass this time period? _________________________
2. The Restoration period is also known as _________________________
3. Why is this period called “The Restoration?”
4. comedies of manners
5. Great Fire of London
6. Whigs
7. Tories
8. William and Mary
9. The Glorious Revolution
10. English Bill of Rights
11. Robert Walpole
12. Seven Year’s War
13. Sir Isaac Newton
14. John Locke
15. Middle class
16. The Tatler and The Spectator
17. Daniel Defoe (additional information page 592)
18. Neoclassicism
19. Augustan Age
20. satire (additional information pages 608-609)
21. Jonathan Swift (additional information page 620)
22. Samuel Johnson (additional information page 670)
23. Language standardization (see yellow box page 368)
24. salons and bluestockings
25. Charlotte Smith (additional information page 700)
26. Fanny Burney (additional information page 706)
27. Mary Wollstonecraft (additional information page 718)
28. Development of the essay (page 576-577)
29. Read “The Poor and Their Betters” on pages 742-743. Answer the multiple choice
questions that follow.
1. _____
6. _____
11. _____
2. _____
7. _____
12. _____
3. _____
8. _____
13. _____
4. _____
9. _____
14. _____
5. _____
10._____
15. _____
30. How is this piece typical of the time period? List 2 ideas.
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Terms to know for the test: (be able to define these AND identify them if given a passage). Look
through your notes, assignments, and the Handbook of Literary Terms in the red-edged pages of
your textbook to help you review.
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Kenning
Tone
Imagery
Characterization
Satire
Sonnet
Stanza
Octave
Sestet
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Quatrain
Couplet
Rhyme Scheme
Speaker
Lyrics
Stanza
Shift
Neoclassicism