Multiple choice questions- Chaucer

Some Mcqs from chaucer & prologue:

1)      Who introduced the heroic couplet into English?

Ans: Chaucer (in the Legend of Good Women)

2)      Who wrote the Book of Duchess?

Ans: Chaucer

3)      Who is referred to as ‘fusion tunic’?

Ans: Knight

4)      Madame Eglantine also known as?

Ans: Prioress

5)      Father of English poetry is?

Ans: Chaucer

6)      Whose name is Huberd?

Ans: Friar

7)      Who is described as ‘Epicurus Son’?

Ans: Franklin

8)      During Chaucer’s period medicine was connected with

Ans: Astronomy

9)      Who called Chaucer as the father of English Poetry?

Ans: Dryden

10)  How many Pilgrims are there in Canterbury Tales?

Ans: 30 (including Chaucer)

11)  Which is the first in Canterbury Tales?

Ans: The Knight’s Tale

12)  The Pilgrims went for a pilgrimage to Canterbury in the month of

Ans: April

13)  29 Pilgrims came to Tabard Inn at

Ans: Early in the morning

14)  How many battle were fought by knight?

Ans: 15

15)  What is the name of the nun?

Ans: Madame Eglantine

16)  The Nun speaks _____ fluently

Ans: French

17)  The young Squire who appears in the Canterbury Tales is the son of _______

Ans: The Knight

18)  The Yeoman attended on or served whom?

Ans: The Knight

19)  Who is fond of hunting?

Ans: The Monk

20)  A sailor appears in the prologue to Canterbury Tale. The sailor ship name was

Ans: Maudelayne

21)  Who was deaf among the following?

Ans: Wife of Bath

22)  How many times Wife of bath married?

Ans: 5 times

23)  How many times Wife of bath went to Jerusalem?

Ans: 3 times

24)  Which are the tales in “Canterbury Tales” were written in Prose?

Ans: The Parson’s Tale and Melibus Tale

25)  What are the tales told by Chaucer?

Ans: The Tale of Sir Thopas and The Tale of Melibee

26)  Which is the longest tale?

Ans: Parson’s Tale

27)  The Shortest tale is?

Ans: Yeoman ????

28)  Who was Parson’s brother?

Ans: Plowman

29)  Who always rode last in the group of pilgrims?

Ans: Reeve (He is a Carpenter)

30)  The pilgrims Stayed at

Ans: Tabard Inn

31)  The host asked the pilgrims to tell ____ stories when they go to Canterbury

Ans: Two

32)  Who proposed that every pilgrim should tell two stories?

Ans: The Host

33)  Who opposed the proposal of the Host?

Ans: No one

34)  The Pilgrims started their pilgrimage at

Ans: Morning

35)  “Therefore he loved Gold in special”. The word ‘he’ refers to whom?

Ans: The Doctor

36)  Number of pilgrims including the narration or in the prologue conterbury tales are

Ans: 30

37)  How many completed tales are there in the Canterbury Tales?

Ans: 24

38)  What type of Dialect Chaucer used in his work?

Ans: East Midland Dialect

39)  Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?

Ans: To worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket

40)  What does the Squire wear?

Ans: Cloth embroidered with flowers

41)  Who marries Emelye in the Knight’s Tale?

Ans: Palamon

42)  According to the Wife of Bath, what do women most desire?

Ans: Sovereignty over their husbands

43)  What does Chanticleer dream?

Ans: That he will be taken away by an orange, houndlike creature

44)  Who are the three men searching for in the Pardoner’s Tale?

Ans: Death

45)  Who is branded by a red-hot poker in the Miller’s Tale?

Ans: Nicholas

46)  Who gives the brand to the Nicholas?

Ans: Absolon

47)  Which of the following tales is a fabliau?

Ans: The Miller’s Tale

48)  Which pilgrim has a forked beard?

Ans: The Merchant

49)  What is the moral of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?

Ans: Never trust a flatterer.

50)  What is the Wife of Bath’s Prologue about?

Ans: Her life with her five different husbands

51)  When does The Canterbury Tales take place?

Ans: In the late fourteenth century

52)  For which social classes did Chaucer write?

Ans: All levels of society

53)  What was Chaucer’s profession?

Ans: Civil servant

54)  How many Canterbury Tales are there?

Ans: 24

55)  What is a romance?

Ans: A story of knights, ladies, quests, and love

56)  Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval sermon?

Ans: The Pardoner’s Tale

57)  Which pilgrims are most richly attired?

Ans: Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician, Franklin

58)  Which tales take place in the Orient?

Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale and the Squire’s Tale

59)  Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All”?

Ans: The Prioress

60)  At what time of year does the pilgrimage take place?

Ans: In the height of spring

61)  Which characters are connected to the Church?

Ans: The Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the Summoner, and the Pardoner

62)  Which tale is about a talking falcon?

Ans: The Squire’s Tale

63)  Which tales are about the patient suffering of women?

Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale (Exile of Custance), the Clerk’s Tale (Ordeal of Griselda), and the Physician’s Tale (Mercy killing of Virginia)

64)  Why does the Pardoner upset the Host?

Ans: The Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the pilgrims, after he has already told them that he cheats people.

65)  In which year Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales?

Ans: 1387 to 1400

66)  Who did Arcite who won the fight with Palamon die?

Ans: He fell from the Horse Riding

67)  Who imprisoned Arcite and Palamon?

Ans: Theseus, the duke of Athens

68)  The characters John and Alayn appear in the story of _______

Ans: The Reeve’s Tale

69)  The Perkyn who drinks heavily and stays with his friend’s house and his wife who is a prostitute appears in the tale of _________

Ans: The Cook’s Tales

70)  Who had Ulcer on his face (shin)?

Ans: The Cook

71)  The conversion of muslims to chrisitians takes place in the story of _________

Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale.

72)  What is the name of the mother of Sultan who is killed by her Sultan in the tale of the man of Law?

Ans: Hermengyld

73)  What is the name of the mother of Alla, the King of Northumberland who is killed by her son Alla?

Ans: Donegild

74)  Who is the son born to All and Custance?

Ans: Mauricius

75)  How many lines the prologue of Canterbury Tales has?

Ans: 858 lines

76)  Which are the unfinished Tales of Canterbury Tales?

Ans: The Cook’s Tale and Squire’s Tale

77)  Who is Mrs. Sweetbriar?

Ans: Madame Eglantine

78)  The clerk of oxford had twenty books which were written by ________

Ans: Aristotle

79)  Who says of Chaucer “Here is God’s Plenty”?

Ans: Dryden

80)  Who criticizes Canterbury Tales as Portrait Gallary?

Ans: Dryden

81)  Who says of Chaucer, “He must have been a man of most wonderful comprehensive soul?

Ans: Dryden

82)  Who called Chaucer as the father of English poetry?

Ans: Dryden

83)  Who called Chaucer as the father of our splendid English Poetry?

Ans: Matthew Arnold

84)  Who called Chaucer as a perpetual fountain of good sense?

Ans: Matthew Arnold

85)  Who says of Chaucer, “He will be read far more generally than he is read now”

Ans: Matthew Arnold

86)  Who said that Chaucer lacks high seriousness?

Ans: Matthew Arnold