Chaucer MCQs [English Literature& Authors]

Collection of important MCQs on Chaucer

“He was as fresh as the month of May.” This line is part of the Prologue. This line refers to _______ .

(A) Squire

(B) Franklin

(D) None of these

Question’s Answer: Squire

Which work is not a work of Chaucer?

(A) The House of Fame

(B) The Legend of Good Women

(D) Romaunt of the Rose

Question’s Answer: The Owl and the Nightingale

Which is Chaucer’s prose work?

(A) Treatise on the Astrolabe

(B) The Legend of Good Women

(D) The House of Fame

Question’s Answer: Treatise on the Astrolabe

Who is the writer of a famous poem mourning the death of Chaucer?

(A) William Dunwar in The Thistle and the Rose

(B) Lydgate in Falles of Princes

(D) Occleve in The Governail of Princes

Question’s Answer: Occleve in The Governail of Princes

Which was the closest contemporary of Chaucer ?

(A) John Gower

(B) Wyclif

(D) John Barbour

Question’s Answer: William Langland

____ called Chaucer “the Father of English Poetry”?

(A) Dryden

(B) Spenser

(D) Arnold

Question’s Answer: Dryden

______ says about Chaucer’s ‘Characters-“Here is God’s Plenty.”

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Dryden

(D) Coleridge

Question’s Answer: Dryden

In which month did Chaucer’s pilgrims go on their pilgrimage?

(A) January

(B) April

(D) February

Question’s Answer: April

How many pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are going on the pilgrimage?

(A) 27

(B) 40

(D) 29

Question’s Answer: 29

How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the knighthood class?

(A) One

(B) Two

(D) Three

Question’s Answer: Three

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

(A) The Christian name of the lady

(B) The name of the town to which she belonged

(D) The surname of the lady

Question’s Answer: The name of the town to which she belonged

It is believed that the Host at the Inn was a real man. Who is the Host?

(A) Henry Bailly

(B) Hoary Bailly

(D) Harry Bailly

Question’s Answer: Harry Bailly

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

(A) Southwark Inn

(B) Temple Inn

(D) Tabard Inn

Question’s Answer: Tabard Inn

To which shrine are the pilgrims going?

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

(B) Shrine of St. Lucas at Jerusalem

(D) Shrine of St. Mark in Southwark

Question’s Answer: Shrine of St. Thomas a’ Becket at Canterbury

One of the Tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is in prose.

(A) The Pardoner’s Tale

(B) The Knight’s Tale

(D) The Parson’s Tale

Question’s Answer: The Parson’s Tale

Chaucer was not indebted for his sources to one of the following, Identify him:

(A) Dante

(B) Virgil

(D) Ovid

Question’s Answer: Homer

Between which sets of dates did Chaucer live ?

(A) 1348-1410

(B) 1329-1330

(D) 1349-1400

Question’s Answer: 1340-1400

Chaucer lived during the reigns of ___.

(A) Edward 3, Richard 2, and Henry 4

(B) Edward 3 and Henry 4

(D) None of these

Question’s Answer: Eward 3, Richard 2, and Henry 4

Who mention Chaucer as “The Well of English Undefiled”?

(A) Dryden

(B) Sidney

(D) Spenser

Question’s Answer: Spenser

“With Chaucer is born our real poetry.” Who has that opinion?

(A) Addison

(B) Spenser

(D) Matthew Arnold

Question’s Answer: Matthew Arnold

“Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language.” ________ makes this observation?

(A) 1. A. Richards

(B) Lowes

(D) Walter Pater

Question’s Answer: Lowes

“Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns.” Who has that opinion?

(A) Dryden

(B) Matthew Arnold

(D) Ben Jonson

Question’s Answer: Matthew Arnold

“If Chaucer is the Father of English Poetry, he is the Grandfather of the English Novel ”

Who makes this remark?

(A) GK Chesterton

(B) Ruskin

(D) Coleridge

Question’s Answer: GK Chesterton

Total ______ ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?

(A) Three

(B) Eight

(D) Six

Question’s Answer: Eight

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

(A) Five

(B) Three

(D) Four

Question’s Answer: Three

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