CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART V

CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS – PART V

1. Tottel’s Miscellany is a collection of ….songs, sonnets and lyrics.

2. Who is the author of Inferno?

3. Sackville’s Induction was written in?

4. The Mirror of Magistrates was written by?

5. Dunbar satirized his law courts in his?

6. Dunbar’s Satire on Edinburgh is an attack on?

7. Elizabeth I succeeded a catholic dictator the name of whom is?

8. The name of the book which deals with the killings by the catholic queen Mary is?

9. Book of Martyrs was written by?

10. Who is of the view that Chaucer is not as great as the classicists?

11. To whom Pope gives the title ‘Defender of the Faith’?

12. Battle of Pavia took place in the year?

13. Thomas More becomes Chancellor in?

14. Which of Lydgate’s works describes the sufferings of the poor?

15. Wyatt’s love sonnets are …in total.

16. Wyatt’s sonnets were published in?

17. Tottel’s Miscellany was published in?

18. Wyatt’s satire were composed in?

19. Why is ‘The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’ called ‘Prologue to Modern Fiction?” Because of its?

20. Robin Hood is known for ?

21. Arnold said, “With him is born our real poetry.” Here who is ‘him’?

22. Who was Aeschylus (525-456 B. C)?

23. How many books are there in Virgil’s Aeneid?

24. Who was Achilles?

25. Shakespeare used the longest word ‘Honerificabilitudinitatibus’ in his play?

26. Who has been called ‘the true child of the Renaissance’.

27. Before 1350, there was a single prose work in English. The name of the book is?

28. The Nut Brown Maid and Ballad of the Cheve chase are two ballads which were popular in …….century.

29. Who is the first writer of the plain style?

30. Who regretted, “I took none heed neither of short nor of long.”

31. Which work of Occleve is partly autobiographical and partly a satire on poverty?

32. Who was the first writer of Middle style?

33. Who was the “morning star of Elizabethan drama”?

34. The first tragedy is said to have been written by?

35. Who is of the view that “Matthew Arnold thinks too much of the uses of literature and too little of its pleasure”.

36. Who founded the Customs?

37. Who said that, “Arnold does not mean seriousness at all.”

38. According to Chesterton, Chaucer’s high seriousness can be seen in his?

39. The war of the Roses appears in the works of ?

40. The war of the Roses is called by that name because?

41. Lyly’s Euphues was based on?

42. Who said, “Chaucer was the earliest of the great moderns.”

43. Who wrote The Dance of the Seven Deadly Synnis?

44. The Coventry Carol Hayle and Comely and Clene are?

45. A carol is a type of ?

46. Carols were developed in the …..century.

47. Who was Calvin?

48. Who introduced Eclogues in England?

49. Eclogues basically had its birth place in?

50. Who influenced Henry Vaughan?

51. Skelton’s Book of Colin Cout was a satire on?

52. Who charged Chaucer “for a fondness for long speeches, for pedantic digressions…”?

53. Who said, “Of all writers of genius Chaucer is the one with whom it is easiest to have a sense of comradeship.”

54. Who said, “When Langland cries aloud in anger threatening the world with hell fire, Chaucer looks on and smiles.”

55. Who was writer of Polychronicon (1350)?

56. Polychronicon was written in?

57. Who translated Polychronicon into English ?

58. Who said, “Chaucer is the first great painter of character because he is the first great observer of it among European writers.”

59. Out of 24 stories of Canterbury Tales, how many stories are complete?

60. Occelve’s A Dialogue with a Friend is a satire on?

61. Skelton’s Book of Colin Clout satirized?

62. Who fell in love with Lady Beaufort?’

63. Who was Lady Beaufort?

64. The Regiment of Princess is a satire on?

65. Barabas is a character from?

66. Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta is about?

67. Dr. Faustus is a tragedy about the pursuit of?

68. Gaveston is a character in?

69. Shakespeare’s historical plays present the history of England from?

70. Which element is found in Lyly’s plays?

71. The Hundred Years’ War was between?

72. Black Death in England broke out during the reign of?

73. The leader of the Peasant’s Revolt was?

74. Who said, “Pray, you now, forget and forgive.”

75. Cordelia is a character in the play?

76. The line “Best men are moulded out of faults’ occurs in the play?

77. Mariana is a character in the play?

78. In the play King Lear, the villain is?

79. The line, “O brave new world” occurs in the play?

80. Who says, “Of all his women, Imogen is most perfect.”

81. Who remarked about Chaucer, “It was easy matter to produce some thousands of his verse, which are lame for want of half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.”

82. Who was known as the “Chaucer of Scotland?”

83. The first play in English with a regular plot, acts and scenes is?

84. Who drank of Chaucer’s ‘well of English’?

85. Shakespeare was regarded as ‘myriad-minded’ by?

86. Who is known as the father of the Independents?

87. Who said, “Geoffery Chaucer is nearer to us than Alexander Pope.”

88. Who is known as the “Translator general” of the Elizabeth?

89. Who said that Chaucer is “ a perpetual fountain of good sense.”

90. The Old Testament was originally written in?

91. The New Testament was originally written in?

92. Spenser’s Mother Hubbard’s Tale is a satire on?

93. The lines, “What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty” are from the play?

94. Don Quixote is a work by?

95. Malvilo is a character from the play?

96. The Authorized Version of the Bible was based on?

97. The Parliament passed Statute against those who attended conventions in the year?

98. Who said, “No Bishop, no king.”

99. Mortimer is a character in a play by Marlowe?

100. The theme of Boccaccio’s Decameron is?