Friday, 1 October 2021

Multiple- choice Questions on Chaucer

 1. Between which sets of dates did Chaucer live?

(A) 1340-1400

(b) 1345-1400

(C) 1348-1400

 (D) 1349-1400 Ans: (A) 1340-1400                      

2. Chaucer lived during the reigns of—

(A) Edward III and Richard II

 (B) Edward III and Henry IV

(C) Richard II and Henry IV

(D) Edward III, Richard II, and Henry IV.  Ans:  Edward III, Richard II, and Henry IV          

3. Which of the following was the closest contemporary of Chaucer?

(A) John Gower

 (B) William Langland

 (C) Wyclif

(D) John Barbour.   Ans:  (B) William Langland

4. Who called Chaucer “the Father of English Poetry”?

(A) Sidney

(B) Spenser

(C) Dryden

(D) Arnold   Ans:

5. Who described Chaucer as “The Well of English Undefiled”?

(A) Dryden

 (B) Spenser

 (C) Pope

 (D) Sidney   Ans: B

 6. “With Chaucer is born our real poetry.” Who holds this view?

(A) Matthew Arnold

 (B) Spenser

(C) Dryden

 (D) Addison        Ans: A


7.      Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it Languages? Who makes this

Observation?

(A        . (A.) Richards

(B) F.R. 

 (C) Lowes

 (D) Walter Pater.   Ans: C

8.      "Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns."  Who holds this View?

(A)Dryden

(B)Ben Jonson

 (C) T.S. Eliot

 (D) Matthew Arnold.    Ans: D

9. "if Chaucer is the Father of English Poet, he is the Grandfather of the English Novel." Who makes this remark?

(A) Walter Pater

 (B) Ruskin

 (C) G.K. Chesterton

(D) Coleridge               Ans: C

10. Who says about Chaucer’s ‘Character Here is Gad’s Plenty.”

(A) Dryden

(B) Dr. Johnson

 (C) Pope

(D) Coleridge                        Ans: A

11. In which month did Chaucer’s pilgrims go on their Pilgrimage?

(A) January

(B) February

(C) March

(D) April                     Ans:  D

12. HOW many pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are going on the pilgrimage?

/ (A) 27

 (B) 29

 (C) 30

(D) 31       Ans: B

13. How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the knighthood

Class?

                  (A)One

(B) Two

(C) Three

(D) Four.             Ans: C

14. How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?

(A) Five

 (B) Six

 (C) Seven

 (D) Eight                        Ans: D

15.     How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales?

(A) One

(B) Two

 (C) Three

 (D) Four                 Ans: C

 

 

16. It is believed that the Host at the Inn was a real man. What is the name of the Host?

(A) Henry Baily

(B) Harry Bailly

 (C) Horney Baffly

(D) Hoary Bailly                             Ans: B

17. What is the name of the Inn where the pilgrims assemble for the night?

(A) Southwark Inn

(B) Temple Inn

 (C) Tabard Inn

 (D) St. Becket Inn               Ans: C

18. To which shrine are the pilgrims going?

(A) Shrine of St.Agnes at Canterbury

(B) Shrine of St. Lucas at Jerusalem

(C) Shrine of St. Thomas a’ Becket at Canterbury

(D) Shrine of St. Mark in Southwark.               Ans: C

19, One of the Tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is in prose. Which of the following?

(A) The Pardoner’s Tale

 (B) The Parson’s Tale

(C) The Monk’s Tale

 (D) The Knight’s Tale                 Ans: B

 

20. One of the portraits in the Prologue that of the wife of Bath. What is Bath?

(A) The Christian name of the lady

(B) The surname of the lady

(C) The name of her husband

(D) The name of the town to which she belonged      Ans:   D

21. “He was as fresh as the month of May.” this line occurs in   the Prologue. Whom does this line refer to

(A) Friar

(B) Franklin

 (C) Doctor of Physic

 (D) Squire           Ans:D

22. One of the following works  is not a work of Chaucer. Which one?

(A) The House of Fame (B) The Owl and the Nightingale

(C) The Legend of Good Women (D) Romaunt of the Rose    Ans: B

23. Which of the following is Chaucer’s prose work?

(A) Troylus and Cryseyde

 (B) The Legend of Good Women

(C) Treatise on the.Astrolabe

(D) the House of Fame                 Ans: C

24. Which of the following poets wrote a famous poem mourning the death of Chaucer?

(A) Occleve in The Governail of Princes

(B) Lydgate in Falles of Princes

(C) James I of Scotland in The King’s Quair

(D) William Dunwar in The Thistle and the Rose            Ans: A

25. Chaucer was not indebted for his sources to one of the following, identify him:

(A) Homer

 (B) Virgil

 (C) Dante

  (D) Ovid                  Ans: A

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