Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?

   A. courtly ideals of the good life
   B. carpe diem
   C. loyalty to the king
   D. pious devotion to religious virtues

2. Who is termed as “The Morning Star of Renaissance” ?

   A. Spenser
   B. John Gower
   C. Geoffrey Chaucer
   D. Langland

3. Fill in the blank. ____________ is remembered as the “Morning Star of the Reformation.”

   A. John Donne
   B. John Dryden
   C. John Wycliffe
   D. Johan Gutenberg

4. I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking ?

   A. Brown
   B. Brom Bones
   C. Rip
   D. Dupin

5. The poem “In Flanders Fields” was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?

   A. The Franco-Prussian War
   B. The American Civil War
   C. World War I
   D. World War II

6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?

   A. The Legend of Good Women
   B. The House of Fame
   C. The Book of Duchess
   D. Troilus and Criseyde

7. The home of Chaucer’s royal patron and friend, John of Gaunt, was burned duringthe Peasants’ Revolt of 138. What events led to this revolt ?

   A. Government policies were incorrectly based on the idea that the rich would help the poor survive.
   B. The high rates of the poll tax were considered unfair.
   C. Peasants were jointly united against the pattern of upper-class harassments
   D. All of these answers

8. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

9. ‘The Age of Chaucer’ ranges from_______________?

   A. 1340-1385
   B. 1240-1300
   C. 1340-1400
   D. 1340-1399

10. Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest ?

    A. comic figures
    B. historical figures
    C. romantic figures
    D. tragic figures