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

, A daughter is killed by her father in ____ written by Chaucer.

(a) “The Monk’s Tale”

(b) “The Clerk’s Tale”

(d) “The Physician’s Tale”

Question’s Answer: “The Physician’s Tale”

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

(a) Langland

(b) Gower

(d) Chaucer

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

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

(a) “The Friar’s Tale”

(b) “The Squire’s Tale”

(d) “The Knight’s Tale”.

Question’s Answer: “The Knight’s Tale”.

Who translated Higden’s Polychronicon?

(a) John of Trevisa

(b) John Wyclif

(d) Langland

Question’s Answer: John Wyclif

The Voyage and Travels of Sir Mandeville was written in John

(a) 1354

(b) 1389

(d) 1356

Question’s Answer: 1377

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

(a) Chaucer

(b) John Wyclif

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: John Wyclif

Wyclif’s The Bible is a of

(a) Greek Texts

(b) Hebrew Texts

(d) Arabic Texts

Question’s Answer: Latin Texts

Which year John Wyclif rendered the Bible into English?

(a) 1280

(b) 1480

(d) 1380

Question’s Answer: 1380

Who is known as ‘father of English prose”?

(a) John Gower

(b) Langland

(d) John Wyclif

Question’s Answer: John Wyclif

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

(a) John Wyclif

(b) William Langland

(d) Hilton

Question’s Answer: John Wyclif

Who is known as ‘Morning Star of Reformation”?

(a) Chaucer

(b) Langland

(d) Malory

Question’s Answer: John Wyclif

What was the period of John Wyclif?

(a) 1400 to 1440

(b) 1290 to 1340

(d) 1324 to 1384

Question’s Answer: 1324 to 1384

Who were Lollards?

(a) The followers of Wyclif

(b) Poor priests of the Roman Catholic Church

(d) The pilgrims of Chaucer’s Age

Question’s Answer: The followers of Wyclif

_____ called the Morning Star of the Renaissance”.

(a) Langland

(b) Gower

(d) Chaucer

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the

military profession?

(a) 8

(b) 3

(d) 4

Question’s Answer: 3

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

(a) The Hous of Fame

(b) Canterbury Tales

(d) Troilus and Cryseyde

Question’s Answer: Canterbury Tales

Chaucer’s _____ was an allegory on the death of Blanche, the

wife of his patron.

(a) The Hous of Fame

(b) The Parliament of Fouls

(d) The Book of the Duchess

Question’s Answer: The Book of the Duchess

To which shrine are the pilgrims going?

(a) Shrine of St. Agnes at Canterbury

(b) Shrine of St. Lucas of Jerusalem

(d) Shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury

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

In whose story, the character of Griselda appears?

(a) “The Miller’s Tale”

(b) “The Reeve’s Tale”

(d) “The Friar’s Tale”

Question’s Answer: “The Clerk’s Tale”

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

(a) Fabliau

(b) Sermon

(d) Romance

Question’s Answer: Fabliau

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

(a) The Wife of Bath

(b) The Merchant

(d) The Friar

Question’s Answer: The Merchant

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

(a) The Parliament of Fowls

(b) The Book of the Duchess

(d) The Hous of Fame

Question’s Answer: Troilus and Cryseyde

Pandare, who is a Chaucerian character appears in

(a) The Hous of Fame

(b) Troilus and Cryseyde

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Troilus and Cryseyde

Who has uttered these lines?

‘No hadde I er now, my swete herte deere,

Ben yold, ywis, I were now nought

heere!

(a) Diomede

(b) Troilus

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Cryseyde

One of the portraits in the Prologue is that of Wife of Bath. ‘Bath’ is

(a) The Christian name of the lady

(b) The surname of the lady

(d) The name of the town

Question’s Answer: Fabliau

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is supposed to been written in

(a) 1386

(b) 1389

(d) 1387

Question’s Answer: 1387

‘He was as fresh as the month of May!

This line occurs in the Prologue. This statement is refers to which of the following?

(a) Friar

(b) Squire

(d) Franklin

Question’s Answer: Squire

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

(a) The Canterbury Tales

(b) Legende of Good Women

(d) The Book of the Duchess

Question’s Answer: The Canterbury Tales

In the Prologue which character has a forked beard?

(a) Monk

(b) Friar

(d) Squire

Question’s Answer: Merchant

The Wife of Bath was

(a) Lame

(b) Blind

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Deaf

Which work of Chaucer bears close resemblance to Dante’s Divine Comedy?

(a) The Parliament of Fouls

(b) The Hous of Fame

(d) The Canterbury Tales Women

Question’s Answer: The Hous of Fame

In ___ Chaucer has first used the heroic couplet.

(a) Troilus and Cryseyde

(b) Legende of Good Women

(d) The Hous of Fame

Question’s Answer: Legende of Good Women

Chaucer’s _____ entitles him to the claim of being called ‘the Father of English Poetry”.

(a) The Book of the Duchess

(b) The Parliament of Fouls

(d) The Hous of Fame

Question’s Answer: The Canterbury Tales

In the Prologue children were afraid of whose face

(a) Miller

(b) Ploughman

(d) Summoner

Question’s Answer: Summoner

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

(a) Three

(b) Two

(d) Five

Question’s Answer: Two

Andromache was the wife of

(a) Kenelphus

(b) Hector

(d) Macrobius

Question’s Answer: Hector

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

(a) March

(b) June

(d) April

Question’s Answer: April

Chanticleer was the name of which of the following?

(a) Sheep

(b) Sow

(d) Cow

Question’s Answer: Cock

Who is the author of the Richard, the Redeless?

(a) Chaucer

(b) Langland

(d) Gower

Question’s Answer: Langland

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

(a) The vision of Seven Deadly Sins

(b) The vision of Man’s Moral and Spiritual Life

(d) The vision of a Field Full of Folks

Question’s Answer: The vision of a Field Full of Folks

Gower was a contemporary of

(a) Spenser

(b) Shakespeare

(d) Chaucer

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

The life span of Gower is

(a) 1335-1410

(b) 1330-1405

(d) 1332-1408

Question’s Answer: 1325-1408

‘In whose hands is wickedness: and their right hand is full of gifts.” The line has been taken from

(a) Morte d’ Arthur

(b) The Canterbury Tales

(d) Piers the Plowman

Question’s Answer: Piers the Plowman

John Barbour’s “Bruce” a poem that deal with the scheme

(a) National

(b) political

(d) Moral

Question’s Answer: National

Confessio Amantis is a great English work written by

(a) William Langland

(b) Geoffrey Chaucer

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: John Gower

The character Pertelote appears in which of the following tale?

(a) “Canterbury Tales”

(b) “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”

(d) “Pardoner’s Tale”:

Question’s Answer: “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”

Kenelphus, the noble king of Mercia,has been referred in which of the following tale?

(a) “Pardoner’s Tale”

(b) “Monk’s Tale”

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”

Chaucer’s early period (French Period) ranges from

(a) 1365-1375

(b) 1360-1370

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: 1360-1370

Chaucer’s Boke of Blanche the Duchesse was written to

commemorate the death of Blanche of Lancaster, first wife of John of Gaunt

(a) 1370

(b) 1369

(d) 1372

Question’s Answer: 1369

Chaucer celebrated some princely betrothal in which of his work?

(a) The Hous of Fame

(b) Legende of Good Women

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Parliament of Fouls

Which is the Chaucer’s middle or Italian period?

(a) 1375 to 1390

(b) 1370 to 1385

(d) 1385 to 1400

Question’s Answer: 1370 to 1385

Chaucer was elected a knight of the shire for Kent in

(a) 1385

(b) 1388

(d) 1386

Question’s Answer: 1386

For his Troilus and Cryseyde, Chaucer owes to

(a) Dante

(b) Boccaccio

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Boccaccio

Which tale of Chaucer is based in part on a notable French sermon of Friar Laurens.

(a) “Friar’s Tale”

(b) “Pardoner’s Tale”

(d) “Monk’s Tale” ”

Question’s Answer: “Parson’s. Tale”

_____ translated Romance of the Rose, a French work into English.

(a) Malory

(b) Chaucer

(d) Gower

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

Gower’s last writing Traite, dealing with the theme of love and marriage was written in

(a) 1399

(b) 1398

(d) 1400

Question’s Answer: 1397

The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville was originally written in

(a) Latin

(b) Spanish

(d) French

Question’s Answer: French

Wyclif and the Lollards began Reformation in England in

(a) 1478

(b) 1477

(d) 1377

Question’s Answer: 1377

Who is the author of Troilus and Cryseyde?

(a) Shakespeare

(b) Virgil

(d) Langland

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

The life span of Geoffrey Chaucer is

(a) 1330-1400

(b) 1330-1410

(d) 1340-1400

Question’s Answer: 1340-1400

Who is called the Father of English”,poetry?

(a) Shakespeare

(b) Chaucer

(d) Langland

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

Which language had an indelibleb impact on Chaucer?..

(a) Roman

(b) Greek

(d) Latin

Question’s Answer: Latin

Chaucer lived during the reigns of

(a) Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV

(b) Edward ill and Henry IV

(d) Edward ill and Richard II

Question’s Answer: Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV

The verse in The Canterbury Tales consists of

(a) Rhymed couplets

(b) Alliterative lines

(d) Alternative lines rhyming

Question’s Answer: Rhymed couplets

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

(a) 55

(b) 21

(d) 29

Question’s Answer: 29

The Canterbury Tales is

(a) Lyrical

(b) Allegorical

(d) Ironical

Question’s Answer: Allegorical

The rocks of Britanny feature in Chaucer’s

(a) “Miller’s Tale”

(b) “Wife of Bath’s Tale”

(d) “Parson’s Tale”

Question’s Answer: “Franklin’s Tale”

How many women characters figure. in the Prologue?

(a) 3

(b) 2

(d) 4

Question’s Answer: 3

While Chaucer was in Italy he came into contact with the work of

(a) Dante

(b) Boccaccio

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

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

(a) January

(b) April

(d) February

Question’s Answer: April

When Chaucer visited Italy?

(a) 1375 to 1376

(b) 1374 to 1375

(d) 1376 to 1377

Question’s Answer: 1372 to 1373

What kind of book is the Book of the Duchess?

(a) Epic

(b) Satire

(d) Ballad

Question’s Answer: Allegory

How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?

(a) 11

(b) 4

(d) 7

Question’s Answer: 8

Name the inn where the pilgrims assemble for the night

(a) Temple Inn

(b) Southwark Inn

(d) St. Becket Inn is Chaucer’s

Question’s Answer: Tabard Inn

The Hous of Fame is written by

(a) Malory

(b) Chaucer

(d) Wyclif

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

Legende of Good Women is written in

(a) 1365

(b) 1398

(d) 1395

Question’s Answer: 1385

Which prose work?

(a) Troilus and Cryseyde

(b) Legende of Good Women

(d) Treatise on the Astrolabe

Question’s Answer: Treatise on the Astrolabe

The ‘Rhyme Royal’ is used by which of the following?

(a) Langland

(b) Malory

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

Chaucer has used the technique of mock-heroic in which of the following?

(a) The Hous of Fame

(b) The Canterbury Tales

(d) Pardoner’s Tale

Question’s Answer: The Canterbury Tale

Chaucer was not indebted for his sources to one of the following

Identify him.

(a) Homer

(b) Virgil

(d) Ovid

Question’s Answer: Homer

Chaucer’s earliest work is

(a) Prologue to the Canterbury

(b) Troilus and Cryseyde

(d) Nun’s Priest’s Tale Tales

Question’s Answer: The Book of the Duchess

There is a reference of Goddess Venus in

(a) Legende of Good Women

(b) Troilus and Cryseyde

(d) The Parliament of Fouls

Question’s Answer: The Parliament of Fouls

Which work of Chaucer is called ‘a psychological novel?

(a) Troilus and Cryseyde

(b) The Canterbury Tales

(d) The Hous of Fame

Question’s Answer: Troilus and Cryseyde

When the First version of Langland’s Piers the, Plowman was written?

(a) 1373

(b) 1364

(d) 1362

Question’s Answer: 1362

A beautiful lady, Holy Church appears in which work?

(a) Langland’s Piers the Plowman

(b) Gower’s Confessio Amantis

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Langland’s Piers the Plowman

The correct title of, William Langland’s whole poem is

(a) The Vision of Piers the Plowman

(b) Piers the Plowman

(d) The Books of Piers the Plowman

Question’s Answer: The Vision of Piers the Plowman

William Langland was born in

(a) 1331

(b) 1334

(d) 1332

Question’s Answer: 1332

There is a reference of Malvern Hills in

(a) The Canterbury Tales

(b) Morte d’ Arthur

(d) The Christ

Question’s Answer: Piers the Plowman

____ is the author of Piers the Plowman.

(a) Langland

(b) Chaucer

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Langland

The chief weapon of Langland’s allegory is

(a) Irony

(b) Satire

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Satire

“In a somer seson, whon soft was the sonne, I shope me in shroudes, as I a shepe were.” These lines have been taken from

(a) Pardoner’s Tale

(b) Piers the Plowman

(d) Parliament of Fouls

Question’s Answer: Piers the Plowman

How many cantos is there in Langland’s Piers the Plowman?

(a) 9

(b) 7

(d) 6

Question’s Answer: 7

The expression ‘a faire felde ful of folke’ appears in

(a) The Canterbury Tales

(b) Pardoner’s Tale

(d) Piers the Plowman

Question’s Answer: Piers the Plowman

Miroir del’ Homme, a French work was proudly written by

(a) Langland

(b) Gower

(d) None of A, B, and C

Which work of Join Gower is Revolt of inspired by the Peasant’s 1881?

(a) Confessio Amantis

(b) Speculum Meditantis

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Vox Clamantis

The first canto of Piers the Plowman deals with

(a) Falsehood

(b) Lady Meed

(d) Seven deadly sins

Question’s Answer: The vision of Holy Church

John Gower pass away in the year

(a) 1407

(b) 1410

(d) 1408

Question’s Answer: 1408

Which work deals with the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381?

(a) Confessio Amantis

(b) Vox Clamantis

(d) Legende of Good Women

Question’s Answer: Vox Clamantis

A French work “Speculum Meditantis “ has been written by ____ .

(a) John Gower

(b) Thomas Occleve

(d) John Skelton

Question’s Answer: John Gower

Who is the author of Vox Clamantis?

(a) Chaucer

(b) Gower

(d) Langland

Question’s Answer: Gower

Vox Clamantis is a dream allegory written in which language?

(a) French

(b) English

(d) Latin

Question’s Answer: Latin

The lines – Under an hill there is a which of the mai noght have… have been taken from

(a) The Canterbury Tales

(b) The Parliament of Fouls

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Confessio Amantis

Which tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is in prose?

(a) “The Monk’s Tale”

(b) “The Parson’s Tale”

(d) “The Knight’s Tale”

Question’s Answer: “The Parson’s Tale”

Which is not a work of Chaucer?

(a) The Hous of Fame

(b) Romaunt of the Rose Women

(d) The Owl and The Nightingale

Question’s Answer: The Owl and The Nightingale

Chaucer on diplomatic missions abroad

(a) From 1365 to 1373

(b) From 1380 to 1388

(d) From 1370 to 1378

Question’s Answer: From 1370 to 1378

“His voice was merrier than the organ’s tone.

In Church on solemn mass days loudly blown.” These lines have been taken from

(a) “Pardoner’s Tale”

(b) “Monk’s Tale”

(d) “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”

Question’s Answer: “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”

Pandarus, the first great comic character in English literature has

been depicted by

(a) John Barbour

(b) Wyclif

(d) Langland

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

Which work of Chaucer is considered to be the epitome of 14th century England?

(a) The Book of the Duchess

(b) The Hous of Fame

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The Canterbury Tales

He found English a dialect and left it

a language Here “he’ stands for

(a) Mandeville

(b) Gower

(d) Chaucer

Question’s Answer: Chaucer

Which is the first English novel in verse?

(a) The Book of the Duchess

(b) The Hous of Fame

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Troilus and Cryseyde

Gower’s Vox Clamantis consists of books.

(a) Eight

(b) Six

(d) Five

Question’s Answer: Five

In Vox, Clamantis, the author divides people into three classes

(a) Doctor, soldier and clerk

(b) Clerk, soldier and businessman

(d) Soldier, teacher, clerk

Question’s Answer: Clerk, soldier, ploughman

Confessio Amantis is a collection of tales in

(a) English monosyllabic couplets

(b) French octosyllabic couplets

(d) French monosyllabic couplets

Question’s Answer: English octosyllabic couplets

Speculum Hominis, a work in French has been written by

(a) Langland

(b) Chaucer

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: John Gower

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