A. The Legend of Good Women
B. The House of Fame
C. The Book of Duchess
D. Troilus and Criseyde
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster ?
A. The House of Fame
B. The Book of the Duchess
C. Troilus and Criseyde
D. The Legend of Good Women - What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees” ?
A. They both address the theme of death.
B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.
C. They are both set in rural New England.
D. All of these answers - what did Chaucer’s wife use to do ?
A. lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut
B. nurse of royal court
C. governess to Henry IV
D. none of the above - Which is the first extant poem of John Keats, which is written in the year 1814 when when was 19 years of age ?
A. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
B. Ode on a Grecian Urn
C. Ode to a Skylark
D. An Imitation of Spenser - John Keats would probably NOT have written a poem celebrating _______________?
A. The beauty of the natural world
B. The pains of love
C. Political and philosophical conservatism
D. The nature of artistic creation - 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 - 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 - Complete the following statement. Chaucer wrote his elegiac poem, “The Book of the Duchess,” to praise the young Duchess of Lancaster who tragically died of___________________?
A. the Black Plague.
B. unrequited love for John of Gaunt.
C. drowning in the Thames.
D. childbirth. - 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.
