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    TEST PAPER ON AGE OF CHAUCER (PART-2)


    Q1. Who was the King when battle of Poitiers took place?

    (a). Edward III


    (b). James II
    (c). Edward the Black
    (d). Henry V

    Q2. Which is not the feature of the Age of Chaucer?

    (a). Usage of heroic couplet in poetry


    (b). Transition from descriptive to narrative
    (c). Writing about nature as a beloved
    (d). Shift from tribal languages to a standard language

    Q3. Who is considered as the leader of the group called ‘Lollards’?

    (a). Geoffrey Chaucer


    (b). William Langland
    (c). John Wycliffe
    (d). John Occleve

    Q4. Which group was assuring people towards the corrupt state of churches during the age of
    Chaucer?

    (a). Realists
    (b). Post-modernists
    (c). Lollards
    (d). Romantics

    Q5. Which King’s court was joined by Geoffrey Chaucer?

    (a). Edward III


    (b). Richard II
    (c). Henry IV
    (d). Henry V

    Q6. When did Prologue to Canterbury Tales get published?

    (a). 1378
    (b). 1380
    (c). 1384
    (d). 1388

    Q7. Which King of England made English the language of the court?

    (a). Edward II
    (b). Edward III
    (c). Richard II
    (d). Henry IV

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    Q8. Chaucer’s pension was stopped by which King?

    (a). Edward II
    (b). Edward III
    (c). Richard II
    (d). Henry IV

    Q9. Chaucer’s career is divided into which of these three phases?

    (a). French, Latin, Spanish


    (b). French, Italian, German
    (c). French, Latin, English
    (d). Italian, Spanish, English

    Q10. Phillipa Roit was the sister of the wife of which English Prince and statesman?

    (a). John of Eltham


    (b). John of Gaunt
    (c). John Darcy
    (d). John Clifford

    Q11. Which work does not belong to Chaucer’s French period?

    (a). The Book of the Duchess


    (b). The Romaunt of Rose
    (c). The Borough
    (d). An ABC

    Q12. Where did the Duchess Blanche belong to?

    (a). Yorkshire
    (b). Lancaster
    (c). Gaunt
    (d). Canterbury

    Q13. Who is lamenting the death of his wife in the poem “The Book of Duchess” by Geoffrey
    Chaucer?

    (a). Knight
    (b). King
    (c). Duke
    (d). None of the above

    Q14. In which month did Chaucer’s Pilgrims go on their pilgrimage?

    (a). April
    (b). May
    (c). January
    (d). August

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    Q15. Who was the inspiration behind the work ‘Romaunt of the Rose’?

    (i) Jean De Meung & Philip Sidney


    (ii) Guilleme De Lorris
    (iii) Jean De Meung
    (iv) Guilleme de Lorris and John of Gaunt
    (a). i only
    (b). ii & ii
    (c). iii only
    (d). i & iv

    Q16. What were the words of the knight while lamenting the loss of his wife in ‘The Book of
    Duchess’?

    (a). best, fair, white


    (b). god, fair, white
    (c). good, fair, white
    (d). good, better, white

    Q17. Which Italian writers influenced Chaucer during his diplomatic visits?

    (a). Dante, Boccacio, Petrarch


    (b). Calvino, Dante, Petrarch
    (c). Machiavelli, Pasolini, Dante
    (d). Calvino, Machiavelli, Dante

    Q18. Who was the influential source behind “The House of Fame”?

    (a). Dante’s Divine Comedy


    (b). Boccaccio’s The Decameron
    (c). Calvino’s Italian Folktales
    (d). Pasolini’s Teorema

    Q19. Who is the father of renaissance & humanism?

    (a). Dante
    (b). Boccaccio
    (c). Petrarch
    (d). Pasolini

    Q20. ‘The Parlement of Foules’ was written to celebrate whose marriage to Anne of Bohemia?

    (a). Richard II
    (b). Henry IV
    (c). James I
    (d). James II

    Q21. What is the rhyme scheme of the Rhyme royal stanza?


    (a). ABABBCC
    (b). ABABABC
    (c). ABABBBC
    (d). ABBACCC

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    Q22. Which work of Chaucer has been called the ‘first modern novel’?

    (a). The House of Fame


    (b). The legend of Good Women
    (c). Troilus and Criseyde
    (d). An ABC

    Q23. Rhyme royal stanza has been approved by which British King?

    (a). Richard II
    (b). Henry IV
    (c). Edward III
    (d). James II

    Q24. What is the term called when a poet reverts his ideas given in a former poem?

    (a). Simile
    (b). Palinode
    (c). Synecdoche
    (d). Enjambment

    Q25. Which character is the first comical character in English literature?

    (a). Pandarus
    (b). Wonder-woman
    (c). Elemandus
    (d). Obelix

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