Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?

   A. hundred years’ war
   B. Black death
   C. Peasant revolt
   D. none of the above

2. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?

   A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
   B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
   C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
   D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.

3. Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in one’s untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?

   A. Long processionals
   B. Mourning clothes
   C. Strict simplicity
   D. Tolling of church bells

4. It was about this time that I conceiv’d the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wish’d to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of more difficulty than I had imagined. … I included under Thirteen names of Virtues all that at that time occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable, and annex’d to each a short Precept, which fully express’d the Extent I gave to its Meaning ?

   A. Samson Occcum
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. Mayflower Compact

5. in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French ?

   A. 1360
   B. 1357
   C. 1378
   D. none of the above

6. how many children chaucer had ?

   A. 4
   B. 1
   C. 0
   D. 2

7. Chaucer became a member of Parliament in_______________?

   A. 1386
   B. 1300
   C. 1343
   D. none of the above

8. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the \flowering\of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?

   A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
   B. the Gawain poet
   C. the Beowulf poet
   D. Chr´tien de Troyes

9. Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces, which of these was not in his charge ?

   A. Westminster Palace
   B. Tower of London
   C. St. George’s chapel at Windsor
   D. Buckingham Palace

10. Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as______________?

    A. Chaucer’s corner
    B. poet’s corner
    C. legend’s corner
    D. none of the above