‘The Age of Chaucer’ ranges from_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.”

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. John Donne
   C. Abraham Cowley
   D. John Dryden

2. ‘Adela’ is a character from_______________?

   A. A Passage to India
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. Hamlet
   D. Doctor Faustus

3. ’Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter’ is a line from_______________?

   A. Ode on a Grecian Urn
   B. The Prelude
   C. Ode to Autumn
   D. None of these

4. Complete the following sentence. The opening frame narrative of Frankenstein comes from_______________?

   A. Walton, a failed poet who is attempting to discover the North Pole.
   B. the creature, after he has killed Victor Frankenstein.
   C. Victor Frankenstein’s diary.
   D. Mrs. Saville, Frankenstein’s cousin.

5. Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?

   A. 1340 AD
   B. 1341 AD
   C. 1342 AD
   D. 1343 AD

6. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?

   A. Richard III
   B. James 1
   C. Edward III
   D. Henry II

7. The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is its__________________?

   A. urbanity
   B. crudity
   C. triviality
   D. sanctity

8. Modern age is an age of______________?

   A. Pessimism and Cynicism
   B. Conflicts and Controversies
   C. Subjectivity
   D. All of the above

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

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

10. 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