The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?

Related Mcqs:

1. William Blake’s /Songs of ‘counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’ ?

   A. Love
   B. childhood
   C. Inexperience
   D. Innocence

2. 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

3. The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?

   A. Lacking in freshness and originality
   B. Saddened
   C. Double meaning
   D. Blue-eyed

4. William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” explores ________________?

   A. The loss of childhood and discovery of the adult world
   B. The fall of Satan
   C. The life of Blake
   D. The history of London

5. Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?

   A. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping England’s economy.
   B. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
   C. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
   D. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience.

6. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?

   A. Sexuality
   B. Criticism of the queen
   C. Murder
   D. Witchcraft

7. Who wrote Canterbury Tales ?

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

8. 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

9. “Tales from Shakespeare” is written by________________?

   A. Shakespeare
   B. Lamb
   C. Lawrence
   D. Mary Anne Evans

10. The Canterbury Tales is written by ___________?

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

    Submitted by: Ali Hassan