Statistics for English Literature CLEP I (Anglo-Saxon to the Interregnum)

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Period	Title	Type	Author	Answer	% Correct
Anglo-Saxon (c. 750)	"_____"	Epic Poem	Anonymous	Beowulf	91%
Medieval (c. 1386)	"The _______ _____"	Poem made up of 24 stories in verse and prose	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales	90%
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	69%
Elizabethan (c. 1590-1596)	"The Faerie Queene"	Epic allegorical poem		Edmund Spenser	67%
Elizabethan (c. 1580s)	"The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" and "Dr. Faustus"	Poem, Drama		Christopher Marlowe	61%
Anglo-Saxon (731)	"Ecclesiastical History of the British Nation"	Historical Nonfiction		Venerable Bede	60%
Medieval (c. 14th cen.)	"Sir ____ and the ____ _____"	Alliterative Arthurian Poem	usually attributed to the Pearl Poet	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	58%
Medieval (c. 1469)	"Le Morte Darthur"	Arthurian prose	Sir ____ _____	Sir Thomas Malory	52%
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	51%
Jacobean (c. 1605-1610)	"Volpone, or The Fox" and "The Alchemist"	Drama, "Comedy of Humors"		Ben Jonson	44%
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	42%
Interregnum (c. 1640s)	"To His Coy Mistress"	Metaphysical Poem	Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____	Andrew Marvell	41%
Medieval (c. 1470)	"______"; characters include: Death, Good Deeds, and Kindred	Allegorical morality play	Anonymous	Everyman	34%
Anglo-Saxon (840-c.900)	Translations into English, including "Ecclesiastical History...", directed writing of "The Ango-Saxon Chronicle"	Old English Translations		King Alfred	34%
Elizabethan (c. 1577-1585)	"Arcadia" a pastoral romance; and "The Defence of Poesy" a literary criticism	Prose		Sir Philip Sidney	34%
Jacobean (c. 1612 - 1625)	"Of Marriage and Single Life", "Of Truth", and "Of Riches"	Essays, philosophy		Francis Bacon	32%
Medieval (c. 1370-1390)	"Piers Plowman"; full title "The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman"	Alliterative Allegorical Poem		William Langland	30%
Elizabethan (c.1580-90s)	"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" and "Farewell, False Love"	Poetry		Sir Walter Raleigh	23%
Elizabethan (c. 1580-1584)	"______ and ______"	Sequence of Petrarchan Sonnets	Sir Philip Sidney	Astrophel and Stella	21%
Caroline Age (1642 & 1649)	"To Althea, from Prison" and "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"	Poetry	Cavelier Poet: _____ ______	Richard Lovelace	21%
Jacobean (1611)	"The King James Version"	Bible in English vernacular	based heavily on the translations by _____ _____	William Tyndale	21%
Jacobean (c. 1620-1633)	"The Collar" and "Virtue"	Metaphysical Poetry	Metaphysical Poet: ____ ____	George Herbert	20%
Caroline Age (1648)	"To the Virgins to Make Much of Time"	Carpe Diem Poem	Cavelier Poet: ______ _______	Robert Herrick	19%
Caroline Age (1637)	"______", written in memory of Milton's friend, Edward King, who drowned at sea	Pastoral Elegy	John Milton	Lycidas	18%
Anglo-Saxon (c. 9th cen.)	"Dream of the Rood"	Christian/Dream Poem		Cynewulf	17%
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	14%
Caroline Age (c. 1630s)	"An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne"	Elegy	Cavelier Poet: _____ ____	Thomas Carew	9%