Chaucer MCQs [English Literature& Authors] dfgdfgdfg

1. “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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Which was the closest contemporary of Chaucer?

(A) John Gower

(B) Wyclif

(C) William Langland

(D) John Barbour

6. ____ called Chaucer “the Father of English Poetry”?

(A) Dryden

(B) Spenser

(C) Sidney

(D) Arnold

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

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Dryden

(C) Pope

(D) Coleridge

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

(A) January

(B) April

(C) March

(D) February

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

(A) 27

(B) 40

(C) 30

(D) 29

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

(A) One

(B) Two

(C) Seven

(D) Three

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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

(A) Dante

(B) Virgil

(C) Homer

(D) Ovid

17. Between which sets of dates did Chaucer live?

(A) 1348-1410

(B) 1329-1330

(C) 1340-1400

(D) 1349-1400

18. 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

19. Who mentioned Chaucer as “The Well of English Undefiled”?

(A) Dryden

(B) Sidney

(C) Pope

(D) Spenser

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

(A) Addison

(B) Spenser

(C) Dryden

(D) Matthew Arnold

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

(A) I. A. Richards

(B) Lowes

(C) F.R. Leavis

(D) Walter Pater

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

(A) Dryden

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) T.S. Eliot

(D) Ben Jonson

23. “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

24. Total ______ ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?

(A) Three

(B) Eight

(C) Seven

(D) Six

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

(A) Five

(B) Three

(C) Two

(D) Four