which of these is magnum opus of chaucer ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which work of William Wordsworth is generally considered to be his magnum opus ?

   A. Laodamia
   B. The Prelude
   C. Guide to the Lakes
   D. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

2. Which poem is considered Wordsworth’s magnum opus ?

   A. “Lyrical Ballads”
   B. “The Prelude”
   C. “We Are Seven”
   D. “Lines Written in Early Spring”

3. chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?

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

4. chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which sin ?

   A. Lust
   B. Corruption
   C. Theft
   D. Gluttony

5. from which language the name ”chaucer” has been driven ?

   A. french
   B. latin
   C. italian
   D. English

6. Where did chaucer bury ?

   A. westminster abbey
   B. kent church
   C. chapel at windsor
   D. none of the above

7. How many languages did chaucer know ?

   A. 2
   B. 4
   C. 1
   D. 5

8. 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.

9. 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. Chrétien de Troyes

10. In Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women, how many legends are there?

    A. 7
    B. 8
    C. 9
    D. None of these

    Submitted by: Sohail Ahmed Kalhoro