Paper :- CC – 102, Unit :- 1 Topic :- Introduction to the age of Chaucer (1) Who introduced the heroic couplet into English? Ans: Chaucer (2) Who wrote the Book of Duchess? Ans: Chaucer (3) Who is Father of English poetry ? Ans: Chaucer (4) During Chaucer’s period medicine was connected with Ans: Astronomy (5) Who called Chaucer as the father of English Poetry? Ans: Dryden (6) How many Pilgrims are there in Canterbury Tales? Ans: 30 (including Chaucer) (7) Which is the first in Canterbury Tales? Ans: The Knight’s Tale (8) The Pilgrims went for a pilgrimage to Canterbury in the month of Ans: April (9) 29 Pilgrims came to Tabard Inn at Ans: Early in the morning (10) The pilgrims Stayed at Ans: Tabard Inn (11) The host asked the pilgrims to tell ____ stories when they go to Canterbury Ans: Two (12) Who proposed that every pilgrim should tell two stories? Ans: The Host (13) Who opposed the proposal of the Host? Ans: No one (14) The Pilgrims started their pilgrimage at Ans: Morning (15) How many completed tales are there in the Canterbury Tales? Ans: 24 (16) What type of Dialect Chaucer used in his work? Ans: East Midland Dialect (17) Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury? Ans: To worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket (18) Who are the three men searching for in the Pardoner’s Tale? Ans: Death (20) For which social classes did Chaucer write? Ans: All levels of society (21) What was Chaucer’s profession? Ans: Civil servant (22) How many Canterbury Tales are there? Ans: 24 (23) What is a romance? Ans: A story of knights, ladies, quests, and love (24) Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval sermon? Ans: The Pardoner’s Tale (25) In which year Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales? Ans: 1387 to 1400 (26) How many lines the prologue of Canterbury Tales has? Ans: 858 lines (27) Which are the unfinished Tales of Canterbury Tales? Ans: The Cook’s Tale and Squire’s Tale (28) Who criticizes Canterbury Tales as Portrait Gallary? Ans: Dryden (29) Who says of Chaucer, “He must have been a man of most wonderful comprehensive soul? Ans: Dryden (30) Who called Chaucer as the father of English poetry? Ans: Dryden (31) Who said that Chaucer lacks high seriousness? Ans: Matthew Arnold (32) Who called Chaucer as a perpetual fountain of good sense? Ans: Matthew Arnold (33) Who called Chaucer as the father of our splendid English Poetry? Ans: Matthew Arnold (34) The Black Death is also called ________. [A] the great plague [B] the great flood [C] the great droughtli [D] the great revolt (35) The Book of Duchess by Chaucer is a _______ [A] Allegory [B] Lyrical Story [C] Narrative [D] None of the above (36).Which dialect became Standard english? [A] The Northern [B] East Midland [C] West Midland [D] The Southern (37) Troilus and criseydle by Chaucer shows great influence of filostrato by ________. [A] Dante [B] De L.rries [C] De Meung [D] Boccaccio (38) The very idea of the the Canterbury tales is belived to have been taken from Boccaccio's [A] Decameron [B] Filostarto [C] Confessio Amentis. [D] None of the above (39). Who remarked that Chaucer's found English a dialect and left it a language"? [A] Legouis. [B] Hadow. [C] Lang. [D] Lowes (40). Chaucer used octave rhyme of the eight syllabic line rhyming in couplets in ___________. [A] The prologue [B] The Canterbury Tales [C] The Book of the Duchess [D] None of the above (41). In Prologue and Canterbury Tales Chaucer employed the __________. [A] Ottava Rhyme [B] Rhyme Royal [C] Heroic Couplet [D] None of the above (42). Who among the following has been called The Morning Star of Renaissance? [A] Shakespeare [B] Spenser [C] Chaucer [D] Marlowe (43). The Character of Criseyde is _____________. [A] a superficial portrait of a haughty woman [B] a physiological study of a complex woman [C] The true representative of a typical medieval woman [D] The true representative of a typical medieval woman (44). In the Canterbury Tales the fictional inn where the pilgrims meet is ___________. [A] Canterbury [B] Tabard [C] Wessex Hall [D] None of the above (45) Who is regarded as the first translator of the bible into English? [A] Thomas More [B] John Wycliffe [C] William Tyndale [D] None of the above (46) Williaim Caxton Setup the first printing press of England in 1475 in __________. [A] London [B] New South Wales [C] Scotland [D] Westminster (47) Who introduced sonnet form to England? [A] Petrarch [B] Wyatt [C] Spenser [D] None of the above (48) Who called Spenser 'The Poets' poet"? [A] Bacon [B] Johnson [C] Lamb [D] None of the Above (49) When did Geoffrey Chaucer start working on The Canterbury Tales? (A) Early 1370s (B) In 1364 (C) Early 1380s (D) In 1376 (50) Which is the first major work of Geoffrey Chaucer? (A) Troilus and Criseyde (B) The Canterbury Tales (C) The Book of the Duchess (D) The House of Fame (51) In which year did Chaucer fought in Hundred Years' War between France and England? (A) 1374 (B) 1359 (C) 1367 (D) 1382 (52) In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born? (A) 1343 (B) 1336 (C) 1432 (D) 1347 (53) Who was the king when Geoffrey Chaucer was born? (A) David II (B) Edward III (C) Richard II (D) Edward II (54) Geoffrey Chaucer is also known as: (A) The reformer of English language (B) The poet of English language (C) The father of English literature (D) The father of English language (55) Which of Chaucer's works is associated with Valentine's Day? (A) The Book of the Duchess (B) The Canterbury Tales (C) Parlement of Foules (D) The Canterbury Tales Unit :- 1 Elizabethan Poetry Elizabethan Age (1) Which age is regarded as the golden age of English literature ? Ans :- Elizabethan Age (2) The Elizabethan Age was from what period in the time ? Ans :- 1558 - 1603 (3) Renaissance is a Ans :- French word (4) Meaning of Renaissance is Ans :- Rebirth, Revival and Reawakening (5) Renaissance first came to -- Ans :- Italy (6) Sir Thomas Wyatt brought which form from Italy ? Ans :- Sonnet Form (7) Earl of Surrey introduced Ans :- Blank verse (8) Who is called the Earl of Surrey ? Ans :- Henry Howard (9) which is the first pure English comedy ? Ans :- Ralph Rooster Doister (10) The first English comedy ' Ralph Rooster Doister ' is written by ? Ans :- Nicholas Udall (11) The first English comedy ' Ralph Rooster Doister ' is written in & published in ? Ans :- Written in 1552 & published in 1567 (12) The first English tragedy is ? Ans :- Gorboduc (13) The first English tragedy is written by ? Ans :- Thomas Sackville & Thomas Norton (14) The first English tragedy is written in ? Ans :- 1561 (15) Thomas Moore's ' Utopia ' was written in ? Ans :- 1516 (1) Who is the Elizabethan Era named after? (A) Elizabeth Taylor (B) Queen Elizabeth I (C) Elizabeth Arden (D) Elizabeth Hurley (2) What form of fine art is the Elizabethan Era most famous for? (A) Literature (B) Painting (C) Ballet (D) Theatre (3) What famous writer from the Elizabethan Era is considered by many to be the greatest writer of the English language? (A) Charles Dickens (B) Jane Austen (C) William Shakespeare (D) Emily Bronte (4) What type of plays were performed at the English theatre? (A) History plays (B) Comedies (C) Tragedies (D) All of the above (5) Which of the following was NOT a body of the government of England during the Elizabethan Era? (A) House of Lords (B) Monarch (C) House of Commons (D) Senate (6) What was it that Queen Elizabeth said she was married to? (A) Parliament (B) Her country (C) The theatre (D) The church (7) When did the Elizabethan Era take place? (A) 1066 to 1112 (B) 1153 to 1250 (C) 1300 to 1450 (D) 1558 to 1603 (8) Who was the mother of Elizabeth I? (A) Catherine of Aragon (B) Jane Seymour (C) Catherine Howard (D) Anne Boleyn (9) In what year did England and Spain fight a famous sea battle? (a)1500 (b)1588 (c)1600 (d)1575 (10) What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign? (a) The Anglican Church (b) The Roman Catholic Church (c) Calvinism (d) The Lutheran Church (11) What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer? (a) Blank verse (b) The sonnet (c) Trochaic Heptameter (d) Free-flow verse (12) Which work did Edmund Spenser author? (a) The Castle of Perseverance (b) The Double (c) The Metamorphoses (d) The Faerie Queene (13) )Which of the following was Elizabeth known as? (a) Unintelligent (b) Rude (c) Stingy (d) Fanatic (14) Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret? (a) French (b) Gaelic (c) Esperanto (d) Welsh (15) What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeth’s court? (a) Swimming (b) Gambling (c) Jousting (d) Backgammon (16) Which of the following disciplines most fascinated Elizabeth? (a) Philology (b) Alchemy (c) Zoology (d) Astrology (17) Elizabeth’s reign was longer than that of any other Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she reigned? (a) 35 (b) 40 (c) 45 (d) 50 (18) )The term for the reaction against corruption in the Catholic Church was known as: (a)The Protestant Revolution (b)The Protestant Reformation (c)The Protestant Restoration (d)The Protestant Resolution (19) What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning of a sonnet (a)Octave (b)Volta (c)Iambic Pentameter (d)Petrarchan (20) Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal family? (a) Windsor (b) Stuart (c) Tudor (d) Plantagenet (21) Shakespeare was writing during the Elizabethan Era which encompasses which of the following time periods? (A) 1500 – 1660 (B) 450 – 1500 (C) 1600 – 1750 (D) 1750- 1850 (22) Shakespeare wrote sonnets primarly in a highly structured poetic format called (A) anapestic hexameter (B) iambic pentameter (C) iambic tetrameter (D) sextets (23) Which of the following most clearly explains the difference between prose and poetry (A) Prose is spoken in mainly in meters while poetry is spoken in blank verse (B) Prose is mainly spoken by kings in plays while peasants speak in poetry (C) Prose is written language not spoken in a metrical unit while poetry is written in rhythm and structure (D) None of the above (24) Shakespeare mostly wrote all of the following types of plays except for (A) satirical comedies.