UGC NET English Quiz

Chaucer wrote Romance of the Rose under the influence of

Which work of the Scottish Chaucerian imitates Chaucer’s House of Fame?

Who is known as the connecting link between Chaucer and Spenser

”Amor Vincit Omnia” in Chaucer’s prologue which means

Which of the following tales of Chaucer deals with the Chivalric romance of plasmon and Arcite?

Which of the four chief dialects that flourished in the pre-Chaucerian period become standard English in Chaucer Time

How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the prologue?

Who of the following is called ‘the morning star of the reformation’

The Hundred Years War fought between

The verse of Canterbury Tales consist of ?

Which of Chaucer Works celebrates Saint Valentine Days?

In the Prologue which character is fond of hunting and riding?

In Nun’s Priest’s Tale, the poor widow had —-sons.

The Wife of Bath was

In which of the following work of Chaucer did Pandare appear ?

Which of Chaucer’s work has the Trojan war as its background?

Which work of Chaucer was an allegory on the death of Blanche?

Who has been called the morning star of the Renaissance?

Which of the following Canterbury tale is based in part on a notable French Sermon of Friar Laurens.?

In which tale of Chaucer a daughter is killed by her father ?

Which one of the following writer has no influence on Chaucer's work ?

Which of the following is Chaucer’s prose work?

Which one of the following works is not a work of Chaucer. ?

He was as fresh as the month of may” This line occurs in the Prologue. home does this line refer to?

Which of the following Tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is in prose. ?

To which shrine are the pilgrims going?

What is the name of the Inn where the Pilgrims assemble for the night?

It is believed that the Host at the Inn was a real man. What is the name of the Host?

How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales?

How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?

How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the knighthood class?

How many pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are going on the Pilgrimage?

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

Who says about Chaucer’s Characters ”Here is God’s Plenty”?

If Chaucer is the Father of English poetry, he is the Grandfather of the English Novel” Who makes this remark?

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”Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns” Who holds this view?

"Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language” Who makes this observation?

"With Chaucer is born our real poetry” Who holds this view?

Who described Chaucer as ”The Well of English Undefiled”?

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4-Who called Chaucer ”the father of English poetry”?

In the house of Holinesse in Faerie Queene, Redcross learns repentance and the way to heaven from Dame Caelia and her daughters, who are named :

In “A Letter of the Authors” Edmund Spenser writes that two characters in Faerie Queene represent Queen Elizabeth. Who are they?

I Britomart

II. Cynthia

III. Belphoebe

IV. The Faerie Queene

The right combination according to the code is

In Spenser’s Re Faerie Queene there are the allegorized moral and religious virtues with their counterparts in the vices. Identify the correctly matched set

The Faerie Queene is an epic celebration of Code:

I Queen Elizabeth

II. The Irish Nation

III. The Roman Catholic Church

IV. The Protestant Faith

The correct combination according to the code is:

In relation to Spenser’s Faerie Queene which of the following character virtue link is rightly matched?

The Red cross Knight is Spenser’s Faerie Queene represents :

The Faerie Queene is based on :

The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spenser’s Faerie Queene is represented by the character

In Faerie Queene what is Redcrosse’s reward for slaying the Dragon?

When Fidessa says, “O but I fear the fickle freakes …./ Of fortune false, and oddes of armes in field” (Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 5), this is a fine example of

Edmund Spenser’s Colin Clout’s Come Home Again is a fine example of :

In “A Letter of the Authors” Edmund Spenser writes that two characters in Faerie Queene represent Queen Elizabeth. Who are they?

I Britomart
II. Cynthia
III. Belphoebe
IV. The Faerie Queene

The right combination according to the code is:

Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion is a carefully structured poem carrying __________ corresponding to the .

What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to frame his tale and to describe the relationship between the tale and its readers?

The author of Of The Progress of the Soul is :

Identify the author of the following lines : Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

Who among the following poets compared human tears to “love’s wine”?

Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne’s wife, who died in 1617 ?

Who among the following contemporaries of John Donne wrote the following lines on his death : “Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit/The universal monarch of wit”?

Andrew Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” was written in

What is the delicate balancing act of Andrew Marvell’s “Horation Ode” ?

Which two rivers are mentioned by Andrew Marvell at the beginning of ‘To His Coy Mistress’?

A. The Ganges

B. Thames

C. Humber

D. The Jhelum

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Which one among the following is a set of the Metaphysical Poets?

In the well-known poem “ To his coy mistress”, the word coy means

You will find the following lines in an English poem: Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side Shouldst rubies find; I by the side Of Humber would complain. Which poem? Who is the poet?

“Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime … But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.” Andrew Marvell in these lines emphasizes the theme of

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.” This statement is an example of

Which of the following rivers are mentioned in Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” ?

In Paradise Lost Book IX Milton writes that Adam was overcome with “______” and so ate the forbidden fruit against his “better knowledge”.

The phrase, ‘bottomless perdition’ occurs in Milton’s Paradise Lost in :

 ________ the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th’ Ethereal Sky, With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to Arms. (Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)

Choose the appropriate word:

“That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me.” (Paradise Lost, Book I) What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan?

What is the name of the angel, who, of those who owed allegeance to Satan, dared to protest against his impious doctrine and left his company to return to God (Paradise Lost, Book V)?

The phrase “darkness visible” (Paradise Lost, 1.63) is an example of ……………..

In Paradise Lost Milton presents the action of the fall of man in two stages in Books …?

The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise:

In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in Adam’s side?

Who is the only one of Milton’s contemporaries to be mentioned by name in Paradise Lost?

In paradise lost Milton invokes his ‘heavenly muse’, ‘urania’, at the beginning of which two books?

1. Book I

2. Book IV

3. Book IX

4. Book VII

Choose the correct option:

Which book of Paradise Lost incorporates the speech rhythms of Adam and Eve’s marital quarrel?

In Book 8, Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness to Raphael. What is this flaw?

As Adam and Eve leave Paradise, “hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slow” (Book XII, Paradise Lost) what is their consolation?

Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy ?

Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?

The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning “When I consider how my light is spent…” ends with ……………

John Milton’s description of gold as a “precious bane” (Paradise Lost, Book II) is best described as

From whose work did John Milton take the epigraph to his Areopagitica?