How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Good Women ?
(A) Six
(B) Seven
(C) Eight
(D) Nine
Answer: D
How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living ?
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhood ottery
(B) By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
(C) By pardoning those who stole property or committeed other crimes
(D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
Answer: B
When Chaucer describes the Friar as a “noble pillar of order”, he is using
(A) Irony
(B) Simile
(C) Understatement
(D) Personification
Answer: (A)
John Dryden described a major English poet as “a rough diamond, and must first be polished ere he shines …..” Identify him:
(1) Geoffrey Chaucer
(2) John Gower
(3) George Herbert
(4) Robert Ilerrick
Answer: 1
Chaucer’s first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of …………….
(1) Duchess of Malfi
(2) Duchess of Lancaster
(3) Duchess of Scotland
(4) Duchess of Paris
Answer: 2
Chaucer satirizes the Monk because the Monk:
(1) is too concerned with courtesy and matters of etiquette
(2) cheats the poor peasants by selling them false religious relics
(3) courts favour of wealthy people but spends no time with poor people
(4) spends too much time hunting and too little time on religious duty
Answer: 4
What narrative perspective does Chaucer employ in the opening of “The General Prologue”?
(1) A first-person “I”
(2) Omniscience
(3) Third person
(4) Free indirect discourse
Answer: 1
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which
they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the three estates?
(1) Nobility, church and commoners
(2) Royalty, nobility and peasantry
(3) Royalists, republicans and peasants
(4) Country, city and commons
Answer: 1
The seven deadly sins are sought to be portrayed in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Which of the following sins is not covered by Chaucer ?
I. Jealousy
II. Envy
III. Lust
IV. Homicide
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I & II
(2) I & III
(3) I & IV
(4) III & IV
Answer: 3
Which of the following is true of The Canterbury Tales ?
1. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates Sir Thopas Tale only.
2. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates The Tale of Melibee only.
3. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates Sir Thopas Tale and The Tale of Melibee .
4. Chaucer, the pilgrim does attempt to narrate an unnamed tale but abruptly stops due to the intervention of the other pilgrims.
Answer: 3
One of the less noticed and acknowledged distinction of The Canterbury Tales is that
1. instead of revealing England’s divisions, it reveled in its diversity.
2. it upheld the idea that we cannot divorce poetry from knowledge because poetry itself is an object of knowledge
3. it alerted us to the term auctor, someone who is both ‘an originator, or one who gives increase’, the best description for Chaucer himself.
4. it married domesticity to divinity, the baker’s Loaf with the bread of life.
Answer: 1
Matthew Arnold’s “touchstones” were “short passages, even single lines” of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. Tn his “Study of Poetry” Arnold cited “touchstones” from such non-English poets as Homer and Dante and also from the English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call “not one of the great classics” in the list below?
(1) Chaucer
(2) Sidney
(3) Spenser
(4) Donne
Answer: 1
One of the most flexible metres, ________is a five foot line. It was introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century and has since then become the commonest of metres in English poetry.
1. Iambic
2. Trochaic
3. Hexameter
4. Pentameter
Answer: 4
She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,
Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve,
In the ‘Prologue’ Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as:
I. crude and vulgar
II. outspoken and boastfully licentious
III. a witness to masculine oppression
IV. bubbling with vitality
Find the correct combination according to the code:
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) I, III and IV are correct.
(D) II, III and IV are correct.
Answer: (B)