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British Literature

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    Literature?
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  • Who is the author of Beowulf?
    We don’t know
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  • What is Beowulf about?
    About a hero who kills a monster and becomes a king
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  • Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales?
    Geoffrey Chaucer
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  • What do you remember about Geoffrey Chaucer?
    A busy man, from a wealthy family, a poet, buried in Westminster Abbey
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  • How many stories are in the Canterbury Tales?
    24
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  • What are the stories in the Canterbury Tales about?
    About unusual/strange characters
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  • What is the Pardoner’s Tale about?
    About a pardoner who sells fake pardons for the sins people commit
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  • What is the moral of The Pardoner’s Tale?
    greed is the root of all evils
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  • Who was Thomas Becket?
    The Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered in the Cathedral
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  • What do you know about the year 1476?
    William Caxton, printing press
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  • What do you know about the year 1066?
    The Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror
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  • Who is the father of English poetry?
    Geoffrey Chaucer
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  • What is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about?
    About life, language and history of the Anglo-Saxons
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