CHAUCER - SHAKESPEARE PART II

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS - PART II

               1. The Testament of Squyer Meldrum by Sir David Lyndsay is a?

               2. which poem is called the sequel of the Chaucer’s Troilus and Cryseyde?

               3. Who is considered the chief among the Scottish Chaucerian Poets?

               4. Which poem of Dunbar is written in the celebration of the marriage of James IV?

               5. In which poem John Skelton addressed to Wolsey?

               6. John Skelton’s The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummyng is known for its?

               7. John Skelton’s Magnificence is a?

              8. Skeltonics is a form of?

              9. Who was the poet friend of Chaucer?

10. Story of Thebes, which is considered the supposed addition of The Canterbury Tales, is written by?

11. In which form Thomas Hoccleve’s La Male Regle is written?

12. Which poem is written in the edification of Henry V?

13. Who is the writer of The Passetyme of Pleasure?

14. Alexander Barclay’s Certayne Ecloges is the collection of?

15. Who introduced the first printing machine in England in 1476?

16. The religious book The Ways of Perfect Religion is written by?

17. Sir Thomas More’s Latin work Utopia’s English translation came out in?

18. Which poem of Spenser was written in the honour of his own marriage?

19. Which poem of Spenser was written in the honour of marriage?

20. How many Petrarchan sonnets are in Spenser’s Amoretti?

21. Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is a?

22. The first instalment of The Faerie Queene was published in 1589. In which year its second instalment was published?

23. Spenser introduced the Spenserian stanza. It consists of ?

24. Prince Arthur is a character in?

25. Who introduced couplet ending in Petrarchan sonnet?

26. Sir Thomas Wyatt contributed his poems in?

27. Earl of Surrey introduced?

28. Who introduced Poulter’s Measure in English poetry?

29. Who is called the Earl of Surrey?

30. Dorset’s poems was appeared in?

31. Which term is coined by George Gascoigne?

32. Gascoigne composed The Steele Glass (1576) in?

33. The first prose comedy Supposes (1566) is written by?

34. How many sonnets are in Sir Philp Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella?

35. Sidney’s Arcadia is similar to?

36. Sir Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie (1595) is provoked by?

37. Who is the writer of The Man in the Moon?

38.  Samuel Daniel’s Delia (1592) is a?

39. The Complaynt of Rosamund (1592) is considered a romance, is written by?

40. The first poem in English to use heroic couplet is?

41. The author of The Piers the Plowman is?

42. Which poem written by Gower in English?

43. Which poem of Gower is in French?

44. Which poem of Gower is in Latin?

45. Who is called the father of English prose?

46. Dream allegory was a popular poetic form during the?

47. Which Chaucerian wrote a sequel to Troilus and Cryseyde?

48. The Golden Targe was written by?

49. “Why Come Ye Not to Court?” is a satire on?

50. Who is the author of The Falls of Princess?

51. Alexander Barclay is known for?

52. Who wrote in prose The Historie of Richard III?

53. Everyman is a well-known medieval drama by?

54. Gorboduc, the first English tragedy, is dated?

55. The first English comedy, Ralph Roister Doister (1551), was written by?

56. The Shepeards Calendar was written by?

57. Spenser’s satirical poem is?

58. What is the genre used in Faerie Queene?

59. Who is the over-all hero of The Faerie Queene?

60. The Spenserian stanza consists of?

61. Duessa is a character in?

62. The Tottel’s Miscellany was published in?

63. Wyatt introduced in the Petrarchan sonnet?

64. The credit for introducing “Poulter’s Measure” in English poetry goes to?

65. Who introduced ‘blank verse’ in English poetry?

66. Myrroure for Magistrates (1563)  is the work of?

67. Thomas Campion was a contemporary of?

68. Which work of Daniel is a romance?

69. Which Elizabethan anthology of poetry contains poem on the death of Sidney?

70. The first tragedy Gorboduc was later entitled?

71. In his Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney defends?

72. The correct title of William Langland’s whole poem is?

73. There is a reference of Malvern Hills in?

74. The chief weapon of Langland’s allegory is?

75. A beautiful lady, Holy church appears in which work?

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

77. In Langland’s Piers the Plowman, Piers plowman first appears in?

78. How many cantos are there in Langland’s Piers the Plowman?

79. The first canto of Piers the Plowman deals with?

80. Gower was a contemporary of?

81. Which work deals with the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381?

82. In Vox Clamantis, the author divides people into three classes?

83. Gower’s last writing Triate, dealing with the theme of?

84. Who translated Higden’s Polychronicon?

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

86. Wycliff and the Lollards began Reformation in England in?

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

88. The first theologian to distribute leaflets and pamphlets to the people was?

89. Who were Lollards?

90. Wycliff’s The Bible is a translation of?

91. Which year John Wycliff rendered the Bible into English?

92. The life span of Thomas Occleve, a consistent follower of Chaucer is?

93. Regement of Princes is a work of?

94. which poet wrote a famous poem mourning the death of Chaucer?

95. The use of the pastoral of satire for court life was first used by?

96. Who translated the work of the German poet Sebastian Brant entitled The Ship of Fools?

97. Which poet introduced ‘Eclogues’ (pastoral poems) to England?

98. Who was the first English poet to choose a German subject?

99. The Ship of Fools a translation from German has been written by?

100. Which English Chaucerian has written The Pastime of Pleasure?