CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE: OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART I

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE: OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART I

1. Who was the poet first buried in Poet’s corner in Westminster Abbey?

2. Which dialect is used by Chaucer?

3. Life span of Chaucer?

4. Chaucer lived during the reigns of:

5. In which century Chaucer belongs?

6. Which poem written by Chaucer is considered the first novel in English?

7. Which poem of Chaucer is unfinished?

8. Whose reign Chaucer died?

9. In which three languages Chaucer wrote?

10. Who was the closest contemporary of Chaucer?

11. In which century The Hundred Years War began?

12. The Hundred Years War was fought between?

13.  In what genre   Beowulf was written?

14. Who is the author of Beowulf?

15. In which century did Norman Conquest take place?

16. Black Death is the name given to?

17. The War of Roses can be traced in the works of?

18. Who is called ‘the morning star of the Reformation’?

19. Dryden said, “Here indeed is God’s Plenty” for which works of Chaucer?

20. Chaucer’s The Romaunt of the Rose is based on?

21. The Romaunt of the Rose is written in?

22. Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde has taken the source from Boccaccio, which is dedicated to?

23. Which poem is the first known attempt in English to use the heroic couplet?

24. Which is the first English novel in verse?

25. Who called Chaucer “the Father of English Poetry”?

26. Who described Chaucer as “the well of English undefiled”?

27. “with Chaucer is born our real poetry”. Who said this?

28. “Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns”. Who said this?

29. “Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language”. Whose view this?

30. If Chaucer is the Father of English Poetry, he is the Grandfather of the English Novel.” Who observes this ?

31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer was indebted to?

32. Where do the pilgrims of the Canterbury Tales meet in London?

33. How many tales are to be told by each pilgrim?

34. The pilgrims are going to visit the tomb of?

35. Where is the tomb of the saint situated?

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

37. What is the name of the Inn where the pilgrims assemble for the night?

38. What is the real name of the Host at the Inn?

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

40. How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the Knighthood class?

41. How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales?

42. How many women characters are portrayed in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales?

43. How many tales are in the Canterbury Tales?

44. In which tale of Chaucer, a daughter is killed by her father?

45. Which tale deals with two young Theban warriors?

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

47. The writer who gave the first full expression of ‘the English sense of humour’ was?

48. Who translated Romance of the Rose, a French work into English?

49. How many pilgrims represent the military profession?

50. Who has been called ‘the morning star of the Renaissance’?

51. Which work of Chaucer was an allegory on the death of Blanche, the wife of his patron?

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

53. Who tells the story of January and May in Pro. To the Can. Tales?

54. Which chaucer’s work has the backdrop of Trojan War?

55. In which work of Chaucer the character Pandare appears?

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

57. In which genre that“Miller’s” and “Reeve’s Tales” come under?

58. One of the figures in the Prologue is Wife of Bath. What is Bath?

59. ‘He was as fresh as the month of May’. Whom does this line refer in Prologue?

60. Chaucer went on abroad for?

61. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is supposed to have been written in the year?

62. “His voice was merrier than the organ’s tone.
  In Church on solemn mass days loudly blown”.
 These lines have been taken from?

63. Which work of Chaucer is considered unveiling the 14^th century England?

64. In which work Chaucer has first used the heroic couplet?

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

66. What does the Wife of Bath affect?

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

68. How many sons In Nun’s Priest’s Tale, the poor widow has?

69. Chanticleer was the name of the?

70. In which tale the character Pertelote appears?

71. In which tale Kenelphus, the noble king of Mercia appears in?

72. Whose wife was Andromache?

73. Who tells the first tale in Prologue?

74. Who tells the last tale in Prologue?

75. Which colour usually is used by Yeoman to wear coat?

76. Which character in Prologue is fond of hunting and riding?

77. Which character liked most the fat roasted swan?

78. In which work of Chaucer the influence of Dante’s Divine Commedia is obvious?

79. Which of Chaucer’s works celebrates Saint Valentine’s Day?

80. Which of Chaucer’s work is a satire on human marital relationships?

81.   In Prologue, the rocks of Britanny appears in?

82. The verse in Prologue to the Canterbury Tales consists of ?

83. Chaucer was elected a knight of the shire for Kent in?

84. Chaucer’s Book of Blanche of Duchesse was written to commemorate?

85. Chaucer celebrated some princely betrothal in which of his work?

86. For his Troilus and Cryseyde, Chaucer took the source from?

87. Which language had an indelible impact on Chaucer?

88. Which is chaucer’s prose work?

89. What is Chaucer’s earliest work?

90. Which work of Chaucer is called ‘psychological novel’?

91. The Rhyme Royal is used by

92. Chaucer has used the technique of mock-heroic in?

93. Which poem of Gower is written in French?

94. Who was the first Scottish poet?

95. Sir John Mandeville translated a French book Travels in?

96. Which book in English is translated by John Wycliff, who is called the father of English prose?

97. For which book Caxton says, “Out of certeyn books of frensshe”?

98. Sir Thomas Malory composed Morte d’Arthur in 1469. In which year was it published?

99. Who was the king among the Scottish poets?

            100. James I composed his The Kings Quair in?