A. hundred years’ war
B. Black death
C. Peasant revolt
D. none of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?
A. 1374 to 1385
B. 1350 to 1360
C. 1360 to 1400
D. none of the above - in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French ?
A. 1360
B. 1357
C. 1378
D. none of the above - The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection – a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball – a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives – and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an “insurrection” ?
A. An act or instance of beginning
B. An of revolting against civil authority
C. The state of one risen from the dead
D. The condition of being stopped - Which writer spent more than twelve years imprisoned in the Tower of London ?
A. Sir Thomas More
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. John Milton - When did Geoffrey Chaucer start working on The Canterbury Tales ?
A. Early 1370s
B. In 1364
C. Early 1380s
D. In 1376 - 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 - Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?
A. The House of Fame
B. The Book of the Duchess
C. Troilus and Criseyde
D. The Legend of Good Women - In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born ?
A. 1343
B. 1336
C. 1432
D. 1347 - Where did chaucer bury ?
A. westminster abbey
B. kent church
C. chapel at windsor
D. none of the above - How many languages did chaucer know ?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 1
D. 5
