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
(C) Doctor of Physic
(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
(C) The Owl and the Nightingale
(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
(C) Troylus and Cryseyde
(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
(C) James I of Scotland in The King’s Quair
(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
(C) William Langland
(D) John Barbour
Question’s Answer: William Langland
____ called Chaucer “the Father of English Poetry”?
(A) Dryden
(B) Spenser
(C) Sidney
(D) Arnold
Question’s Answer: Dryden
______ says about Chaucer’s ‘Characters-“Here is God’s Plenty.”
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Dryden
(C) Pope
(D) Coleridge
Question’s Answer: Dryden
In which month did Chaucer’s pilgrims go on their pilgrimage?
(A) January
(B) April
(C) March
(D) February
Question’s Answer: April
How many pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are going on the pilgrimage?
(A) 27
(B) 40
(C) 30
(D) 29
Question’s Answer: 29
How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the knighthood class?
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) seven
(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
(C) The name of her husband
(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
(C) Horney 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
(C) St. Becket 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
(C) Shrine of St.Agnes at Canterbury
(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
(C) The Monk’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
(C) Homer
(D) Ovid
Question’s Answer: Homer
Between which sets of dates did Chaucer live ?
(A) 1348-1410
(B) 1329-1330
(C) 1340-1400
(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
(C) Richard 2 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
(C) Pope
(D) Spenser
Question’s Answer: Spenser
“With Chaucer is born our real poetry.” Who has that opinion?
(A) Addison
(B) Spenser
(C) Dryden
(D) Matthew Arnold
Question’s Answer: Matthew Arnold
“Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language.” Â ________ Â makes this observation?
(A) 1. A. Richards
(B) Lowes
(C) F.R. Leavis
(D) Walter Pater
Question’s Answer: Lowes
“Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns.” Who has that opinion?
(A) Dryden
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) T.S. Eliot
(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
(C) Walter Pater
(D) Coleridge
Question’s Answer: GK Chesterton
Total ______ Â ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?
(A) Three
(B) Eight
(C) Seven
(D) Six
Question’s Answer: Eight
How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales?
(A) Five
(B) Three
(C) Two
(D) Four
Question’s Answer: Three
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