MCQs – The Age of Chaucer in Early Period of English Literature

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: April 19, 2025

35
Score: 0
Attempted: 0/35
Subscribe
1. A daughter is killed by her father in ____ written by Chaucer.



2. Who gave the first full expression of ‘the English sense of humour’?



3. In Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” which tale deals with two young Theban warriors?



4. The Voyage and Travels of Sir Mandeville was written in John



5. One of the first Englishmen to challenge the authority of the Catholic Church was



6. Wyclif’s The Bible is a of



7. Which year John Wyclif rendered the Bible into English?



8. Who is known as ‘father of English prose’?



9. Who was the first theologian to distribute leaflets and pamphlets to the people?



10. Who is known as ‘Morning Star of Reformation’?



11. What was the period of John Wyclif?



12. Who were Lollards?



13. How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the military profession?



14. Which works of Chaucer does not belong to Chaucer’s ‘Italian Period’?



15. Chaucer’s _____ was an allegory on the death of Blanche, the wife of his patron.



16. To which shrine are the pilgrims going?



17. In whose story, the character of Griselda appears?



18. “Miller’s” and “Reeve’s Tales” are the examples of



19. Who tells the story of January and May in Chaucer’s Prologue, to The Canterbury Tales?



20. Which of Chaucer’s work has the Trojan War as its background?



21. Pandare, who is a Chaucerian character appears in



22. Who has uttered these lines? ‘No hadde I er now, my swete herte deere, Ben yold, ywis, I were now nought heere!’



23. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is supposed to have been written in



24. ‘He was as fresh as the month of May!’ This line occurs in the Prologue. This statement refers to which of the following?



25. The idea of which work of Chaucer Boccaccio’s has been taken from Decamenon?



26. In the Prologue which character has a forked beard?



27. The Wife of Bath was



28. In ___ Chaucer has first used the heroic couplet.



29. In the Prologue children were afraid of whose face?



30. In Nun’s Priest’s Tale, the poor widow had______daughters.



31. Andromache was the wife of



32. In the first line of the Prologue which month has been referred to/by Chaucer?



33. Chanticleer was the name of which of the following?



34. Who is the author of the Richard, the Redeless?



35. In Piers the Plowman Langland saw a series of visions. What was the first vision that he saw?



 

English literature MCQs

Famous English Authors MCQs

  1. William Wordsworth MCQs
  2. William Shakespeare MCQs
  3. Robert Browning MCQs
  4. W B Yeats MCQs
  5. Edmund Spenser MCQs
  6. Chaucer MCQs
  7. John Milton MCQs
  8. S T Coleridge MCQs
  9. Lord Byron MCQs
  10. PB Shelley MCQs
  11. John Dryden MCQs
  12. John Keats MCQs
  13. Charles Dicken MCQs
  14. Alfred Lord Tennyson MCQs
  15. Charles Lamb MCQs
  16. D.H Lawrence MCQs
  17. Thomas Hardy MCQs
  18. Matthew Arnold MCQs
  19. John Galsworthy MCQs
  20. George Bernard Shaw MCQs
  21. T.S Eliot MCQs
  22. Ben Jonson MCQs
  23. Francis Bacon MCQs
  24. Alexander Pope MCQs
  25. Oliver Goldsmith MCQs
  26. Joseph Addison MCQs
  27. Dr Samuel Johnson MCQs
  28. Henry Fielding MCQs
  29. Sir Walter Scott MCQs
  30. Jane Austen MCQs
  31. Dr. Samuel Johnson MCQs
  32. English Comedy MCQs (Oliver Goldsmith)
  33. Alexander Pope MCQs (Neo-Classical Age of English Poetry)
  34. Daniel Defoe MCQs
  35. Dr. Jonathan Swift MCQs
  36. Richard Steele MCQs
  37. English Drama MCQs
  38. Elizabethan Drama MCQs [14th to 17th century]
  39. Elizabethan Prose MCQs

More English Literature MCQs

  1. English Poetry MCQs
  2. History of English Literature MCQs
  3. Sentimental Novels MCQs
  4. Sentimental Poetry MCQs
  5. Legends Of English Literature MCQs
  6. English Literature Important Multiple Choice Questions Answers
  7. Sons And Lovers by D H Lawrence MCQs 
  8. The Waste Land, A Poem by T. S. Eliot MCQs
  9. Drama Origin MCQs
  10. English Pros MCQs
  11. Non-Dramtic Poets Of The Elizabethan Age MCQs
  12. The Cavalier Poets of 17th-century MCQs
  13. Metaphysical Poets of 17th century MCQs
  14. Renaissance Period of 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries MCQs
  15. Puritan Poet MCQs
  16. Restoration Comedy by William Congreve & Wycherley MCQs
  17. Satire MCQs – Renaissance Period by John Dryden
  18. English Essayists MCQs
  19. Romantic Period of Romantic Poets MCQs
  20. English language MCQs
  21. English Humour MCQs [American Literature]
  22. Early Writers of American Literature MCQs
  23. History of American Literature MCQs
  24. American Prose MCQs [English Realism ]
  25. American English Critics
  26. New Englanders Authors MCQs
  27. MCQs on American Literature After Independence
  28. American Playwrights MCQs
  29. New American Poetry MCQs
  30. British English Critics MCQs
  31. Ancient English literature MCQs
  32. Important English Literature MCQs for Public Service Commission
  33. English Literature Repeated Important MCQs
  34. CSS English Literature MCQs
  35. History of Early Period MCQs 
  36. The Anglo-Saxon period MCQs
  37. The Age of Chaucer in the Early Period MCQs
  38. The Anglo-Norman Period of French Writers MCQs 
  39. Metrical Romances MCQ (Anglo-Saxon Period)
  40. Revival of Learning MCQs (1400-1550)
  41. Applied Linguistics MCQs
  42. Language Change MCQs

English Comprehension & Composition MCQs

Download Book

10,000+ English MCQs Homepage

Related Posts:

All Copyrights Reserved 2025 Reserved by T4Tutorials