1. What was the life span of Thomas Occleve, a consistent follower of Chaucer?
(A) 1360-1440
(B) 1390-1395
(C) 1370-1450
() 1380-1440
2. Regement of Princes is a work of
(A) Thomas Hoccleve
(B) John Lydgate
(C) John Walton
(D) Alexander Barclay
3. Who of the following poets wrote a famous poem mourning the death of Chaucer?
(A) James I of Scotland in ‘The King’s Quair’
(B) Lydgate in ‘Falles of Princes’
(C) Occleve in ‘The Governail of Princes’
(D) William Dunbar in ‘The Thistle and the Rose’
4. The life span of Alexander Barclay is
(A) 1470-1547
(B) 1475-1552
(C) 1465-1550
(D) 1480-1555
5. The use of the pastoral of satire for court life, etc. was first used by
(A) Stephen Hawes
(B) Barclay
(C) John Skelton
(D) None of A, B, and C
6. Who translated the work of the German poet Sebastian Brant entitled ‘The Ship of Fools’?
(A) John Skelton
(B) Thomas Occleve
(C) Alexander Barclay
(D) None of A, B, and C
7. ______ was the poet who introduced ‘Eclogues’ (pastoral poems) to England.
(A) John Skelton
(B) Alexander Barclay
(C) Gawin Douglas
(D) Robert Henryson
8. Who was the first English poet to choose a German subject?
(A) Stephen Hawes
(B) Alexander Barclay
(C) John Skelton
(D) None of A, B, and C
9. The Ship of Fools, a translation from German has been written by
(A) Alexander Barclay
(B) Robert Henryson
(C) Stephen Hawes
(D) Thomas Occleve
10. Who is the author of ‘Example of Virtue’?
(A) William Nevill
(B) William Caxton
(C) Stephen Hawes
(D) Alexander Barclay
11. ______ was the English Chaucerian who has written ‘The Pastime of Pleasure’.
(A) Thomas Occleve
(B) Stephen Hawes
(C) John Skelton
(D) Alexander Barclay
12. Who is the author of ‘The Fall of Prince’?
(A) John Skelton
(B) Occleve
(C) Alexander Barclay
(D) John Lydgate
13. Who made frequent use of tag phrases (like ‘sothly to telle’) in his work?
(A) John Skelton
(B) John Lydgate
(C) William Dunbar
(D) Stephen Hawes
14. Who has the credit of being the most voluminous poet of medieval England?
(A) Thomas Occleve
(B) John Lydgate
(C) Stephen Hawes
(D) Alexander Barclay
15. The life span of John Skelton is
(A) 1450-1519
(B) 1455-1524
(C) 1465-1534
(D) 1460-1529
16. ‘The Bowge of Court’ has been written by
(A) John Skelton
(B) Lydgate
(C) Alexander Barclay
(D) Hawes
17. William Nevill’s “Castell of Pleasure” was published in
(A) 1516
(B) 1517
(C) 1519
(D) 1518
18. Robert Henryson is a Scottish poet of the
(A) 13th century
(B) 15th century
(C) 14th century
(D) 16th century
19. Who is the author of the “King’s Quair”
(A) Robert Henryson
(B) James I of Scotland
(C) Gavin Douglas
(D) William Dunbar
20. Who is known as the Chaucer of Scotland?
(A) Robert Henryson
(B) William Dunbar
(C) John Lydgate
(D) Gavin Douglas
21. Who is considered to be the greatest of the Scottish Chaucerians?
(A) Gavin Douglas
(B) Robert Henryson
(C) William Dunbar
(D) King James I
22. Which work of Dunbar deals with the union of two countries – England and Scotland?
(A) “The Golden Targe”
(B) “The Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins”
(C) “The Thistle and the Rose”
(D) “The Two Married Women and the Widow”
23. Which work of the Scottish Chaucerian imitates Chaucer’s Mouse of Fame?
(A) Douglas’ “King Hart”
(B) Henryson’s “Treatment of Cresseid”
(C) Dunbar’s “The Thistle and the Rose”
(D) Douglas’ “The Palace of Honour”
24. Which poem by the Scottish Chaucerian was inspired by Chaucer’s House of Fame?
(A) James’ “The King’s Quair”
(B) Dunbar’s “The Golden Targe”
(C) Douglas’ “The Palace of Honour”
(D) Henryson’s “Robene and Makyne”
25. Who was the first Chaucerian to translate the whole of Virgil into English verse?
(A) King James I
(B) Robert Henryson
(C) William Dunbar
(D) Gavin Douglas
26. The poem “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” has been written by
(A) An anonymous writer
(B) John Skelton
(C) Stephen Hawes
(D) William Dunbar
27. Which work of Skelton is an elaborate set piece in praise of himself?
(A) “Magnificence”
(B) “The Book of Philip Spanuw”
(C) “Garland of Laurel”
(D) “The Bowge of Court”
28. “The Court of Sapience” which dates from about 1470 has been written by
(A) Anonymous author
(B) Lydgate
(C) Dunbar
(D) Occleve
29. In the poem “The Flower and the Leaf” stands for what?
(A) Sweet smell
(B) Happiness
(C) Pleasures of life
(D) Colour
30. Why “Lord Randal” was famous?
(A) Ballad
(B) Allegory
(C) Lyric
(D) Epic
31. The word ‘Ballad’ is derived from the word______which means ‘to dance’.
(A) Ballare
(B) Balled
(C) Ballade
(D) Ballere
32. “The Nut Brown Maid” is a well known
(A) Ballad
(B) Lyric
(C) Satire
(D) Sonnet
33. John Fortescue mainly wrote in
(A) French
(B) English
(C) Latin
(D) Spanish
34. Fortescue praises the constitution of his country in
(A) “De Laudibus Legum Angliae”
(B) “The Governance of England”
(C) “De Natura Legis Naturae”
(D) None of A, B, and C
35. Name the first English printer?
(A) John Dewey
(B) Holinshed
(C) William Caxton
(D) None of A, B, and C
36. When Caxton’s printing press was started?
(A) 1530
(B) 1480
(C) 1476
(D) 1478
37. William Caxton who invented the printing press was basically a
(A) Writer
(B) Doctor
(C) Businessman
(D) Merchant
38. The printing press fixed forever the ______ as the national language of England.
(A) East-midland dialect
(B) Southern dialect
(C) Northern dialect
(D) West-midland dialect
39. Which was the first printed English book?
(A) The Recuyell of the of Jason Historye of Troye
(B) The Boke of Historyes of Jason
(C) Morte d’ Arthur
(D) The Foure Sonnes of Aymon
40. Which book, published by Caxton, had the largest circulation of all his publications?
(A) The Historye of Reynart
(B) The Lyf of Charles the Gredte
(C) Translation of the Golden Legend
(D) Morte d’ Arthur the Foxe
41. Sir Thomas Malory wrote Morte d’ Arthur in
(A) 1469
(B) 1490
(C) 1485
(D) 1495
42. Who has written most of his stories in prison?
(A) Chaucer
(B) Langland
(C) Skelton
(D) Malory
43. Guenevere is the name of a character who appears in
(A) Morte d’ Arthur
(B) Piers the Plowman
(C) The Canterbury Tales
(D) Vox Clamantis
44. Which is the first book in English in poetic prose?
(A) Confessio Amantis
(B) Nun’s Priest’s Tale
(C) Morte d’ Arthur
(D) Vox Clamantis
45. “Praise of Folly” is a famous piece of satire written by
(A) Desiderius Erasmus
(B) Roger Ascham
(C) Sir Thomas More
(D) William Tyndale
46. In Cambridge, the teaching of Greek was given impetus by
(A) Desiderius Erasmus
(B) William Latimer
(C) John Colet
(D) Richard Croke
47. Which work is considered to be ‘the true prologue to the Renaissance”?
(A) Tottel’s Miscellany
(B) More’s Utopia
(C) Aschern’s The Schoobnaster
(D) None of A, B, and C
48. Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (the Kingdom of Nowhere) was originally written in
(A) English
(B) French
(C) Latin
(D) Spanish
49. Who is the writer of “The Schoolmaster”?
(A) Roger Ascham
(B) William Tyndale
(C) Sir Thomas More
(D) Desiderius Erasmus
50. English Prayer Book which was adopted as the official prayer book in 1549 was proudly written by
(A) Tyndale
(B) Roger Ascham
(C) Thomas Cranmer
(D) None of A, B, and C