A. Priests died in great numbers.
B. Rent prices increased because of the market boom.
C. The upper classes were burdened by their monopoly of scarce resources.
D. Chaucer wrote no direct descriptions.
Related Mcqs:
- The Canterbury Tales is an unfinished work, wherein each pilgrim was supposed to tell more than one tale. How many tales did Chaucer originally envision each pilgrim telling ?
A. four
B. six
C. two
D. one - Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” ?
A. The court of Richard II
B. The church
C. The military
D. The literary tradition - When did Geoffrey Chaucer start working on The Canterbury Tales ?
A. Early 1370s
B. In 1364
C. Early 1380s
D. In 1376 - Which of the following characters from “The Canterbury Tales” might represent the rising middle class of the 14th century ?
A. The merchant
B. The knight
C. The prioress
D. The plowman - Where were the pilgrims going in the Canterbury tales ?
A. To the shrine of st. Peter at Canterbury cathedral
B. To the shrine of saint thomas becket at canterbury cathedral
C. both A and B
D. None of these - Who wrote Canterbury Tales ?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Dick Whittington
C. Thomas Lancaster
D. King Richard II - Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?
A. The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.
B. “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
C. In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
D. The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death. - The Canterbury Tales is written by ___________?
A. John Gower
B. Julian of Norwich
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. William LanglandSubmitted by: Ali Hassan
- “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact - It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?
A. A bird
B. A small mountain lake
C. A wide river
D. A high cliff
