in which language the stories of Canterbury tale are written ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. The Canterbury Tales is written by ___________?

   A. John Gower
   B. Julian of Norwich
   C. Geoffrey Chaucer
   D. William Langland

   Submitted by: Ali Hassan

3. T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?

   A. “The Dead”
   B. “The Surrealist Manifesto”
   C. “The Heart of Darkness”
   D. “To the Lighthouse”

4. It is possible to write down spoken language and read aloud the written material. This property of language is called______________ ?

   A. Duality of structure
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. Transference.

5. 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

6. Who wrote Canterbury Tales ?

   A. Geoffrey Chaucer
   B. Dick Whittington
   C. Thomas Lancaster
   D. King Richard II

7. When did Geoffrey Chaucer start working on The Canterbury Tales ?

   A. Early 1370s
   B. In 1364
   C. Early 1380s
   D. In 1376

8. Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” ?

   A. The court of Richard II
   B. The church
   C. The military
   D. The literary tradition

9. What does Chaucer write concerning the devastating effect of the Black Death upon English social, cultural, and economic life in “The Canterbury Tales” ?

   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.

10. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?

    A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
    B. The common people were still essentially pagan.
    C. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
    D. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.