1. Between which sets of dates did Chaucer live?
(A) 1340-1400
(b) 1345-1400
(C) 1348-1400
(D) 1349-1400 Ans:
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:
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.
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
10. Who says about Chaucer’s ‘Character Here is Gad’s Plenty.”
(A) Dryden
(B) Dr. Johnson
(C) Pope
(D) Coleridge
11. In which month did Chaucer’s pilgrims go on their Pilgrimage?
(A) January
(B) February
(C) March
(D) April
12. HOW many pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are going on the pilgrimage?
/ (A) 27
(B) 29
(C) 30
(D) 31
13. How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent
the knighthood
Class?
(A)One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four.
14. How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?
(A) Five
(B) Six
(C) Seven
(D) Eight
15. How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales?
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four
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
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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