Wednesday 2 December 2020

Geoffrey Chaucer important MCQs

                           Geoffrey Chaucer 
                            Multiple-Choice questions Chaucer

1. One of the Tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is in prose. Which of the following ?
(A) The Knight's Tale
(B) The Pardoner's Tale
(C) The Monk's Tale
(D) The Parson's Tale

Answer : D

2. It is believed that the Host at the Inn was a real man. What is the name of the Host?
(A) Henry Bailly
(B) Harry Bailly
(C) Horney Bailly
(D) Hoary Bailly

Answer : B

3.Who is the closest contemporary of Chaucer ?
(A) John Gower
(B) William Langland
(C) Wycliffe
(D) John Barbour

Answer : C

4.
How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the knighthood class?
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four

Answer : C
5.Who said Geoffrey Chaucer as The Well of English Undefiled ?
(A) Dryden
(B) Spenser
(C) Pope
(D) Sidney

Answer : B

6. With Chaucer is born our real poetry  who hold this view?
(A) Dryden
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) Spenser
(D) Addison

Answer : B

7.Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns who holds this view ?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Ben Jonson
(C) T.S. Eliot
(D) Dryden

Answer : A

8.Chaucer is the Father of English Poetry, he is the Grandfather of the English Novel. "Who makes this remark?
(A) Ruskin
(B) G.K. Chesterton
(C) Coleridge
(D) Walter Pater

Answer : B

9.Who says about Chaucer's 'Characters'-"Here is God's Plenty."
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Dryden
(C) Pope
(D) Coleridge

Answer : B

10.In which month did Chaucer's pilgrims go on their pilgrimage ?
(A) January
(B) February
(C) March
(D) April

Answer : D

11.How many pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are going on the pilgrimage?
(A) 30
(B) 27
(C) 29
(D) 31

Answer : B

12.
Who said Geoffrey  as "the Father of English Poetry" ?
(A) Sidney
(B) Spenser
(C) Dryden
(D) Arnold 

Answer : C

13.How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue ?
(A) Five
(B) Six
(C) Seven
(D) Eight

Answer : D

14.How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales?
(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four

Answer : B

15. Chaucer lived during the reigns of 
(A) Edward I and Henry IV
(B) Edward III, Richard II, and Henry IV
(C) Edward III and Richard II
(D) Richard II and Henry IV 

Answer : B

16. Name  the Inn where the pilgrims gather for the night?
(A) Southwark Inn
(B) Temple Inn
(C) Tabard Inn
(D) St. Becket Ian

Answer : C

17. Which shrine are the pilgrims going to?
(A) Shrine of St.Agnes at Canterbury
(B) Shrine of St. Lucas at Jerusalem
(C) Shrine of St. Thomas a' Becket at Canterbury
(D) Shrine of St. Mark in Southwark

Answer : C

18.
 In which sets of dates did Chaucer live ?

Answer : A

19. One of the portraits in the Prologue is that of the Wife of Bath. What is Bath ?
(A) The Christian name of the lady
(B) The surname of the lady
(C)The name of the town to which she belonged
(D)The name of her husband

Answer : C



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