1. What can you tell about Britons and their language? 2

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1. 
What can you tell about Britons and their language? 
2. 
When was Britain conquered by Rome and what was its result? 
3. 
Why did Angles, Saxons and Jutes fight with one another? 
4. 
What can you tell about “scribes”? 
5. 
Why is the Anglo-Saxon poem “Beowulf”called the foundation-stone of all British 
poetry? 
6. 
Name the main heroes of the poem “Beowulf”. 
7. 
Characterize Beowulf. 
8. 
Why did Wiglaf put the blame for Beowulf’s death on cowardly earls? 
9. 
What had Herot symbolized before the coming of Grendel? After? 
10. Does the poem “Beowulf” remind you of any Russian or Uzbek epic poems?
11. 
In what languages did communication go in England in Norman period? 
12. 
What were the tales and verse in Norman period about? 
13. 
What did the term “romance” mean in the medieval period? 
14. What can you tell about Romances which were composed in the 12-13th centuries? 
15. 
Who collected the romances of King Arthur and what were they about? 
16. What is the difference between fables and fabliaux? 
17. 
How was the protest against Catholic Church and the growth of national feeling reflected 
in English literature? 
18. What do you know about William Langland’s best poem? 
19. How many periods can be distinguished in Geoffrey Chaucer’s literary work? 
20. 
Why is Chaucer’s famous “The Canterbury Tales” still of great value to the world 
literature? 
21. 
Why might we consider The Canterbury Tales as a microcosm of the medievalsociety? 
22. 
Why do you think Chaucer chose a competition as the unifying thread to thestories?