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MULTIPLE CHOICE SOLVED QUESTIONS ENGLISH LITERATURE

1. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?

(A) Virgil

(B) Fetronius

(D) Homer

2. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?

(A) Allen Tate

(B) J. C. Ransom

(D) F. R Leavis

3. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third

sections from?

(A) Baudelaire

(B) Irving Babbit

(D) Laforgue

4. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land?

(A) Oedipus

(B) Grail Legend of Fisher King

(D) Sysyphus

5. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?

(A) brother

(B) brother-in-Jaw

(D) cousin

6. Estella is the daughter of?

(A) Joe Gargery

(B) Abel Magwitch .

(D) Bentley Drumnile

7. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?

(A) Sesame and Lilies

(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture

(D) Fors Clavigera

8. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

(A) Catholicism

(B) Protestantism

(D) Buddhism

9. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?

(A) boisterous humour

(B) humour and pathos

(D) stream of consciousness

10. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?

(A) The Bible

(B) The Irish mythology

(D) The Greek mythology

11. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?

(A God

(B) Satan

(D) Eve

12. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?

(A)Susan

(B)Jane

(C)Gertrude

(D) Emily

13. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?

(A)Ralph and Jack

(B) Simon and Eric

(D) Simon and Jack

14.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a

(A) lawyer

(B) postman

(C)Judge

(D) School teacher

15. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?

‘To Carthage then I came’

(A) Buddha

(B) Tiresias

(D) Augustine

16. The following lines are an example……… of image.

‘The river sweats

Oil and tar’

(A) visual

(B) kinetic

(D) sensual

17. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?

(A) Vanity Fair

(B) Middlemarch

(D) Oliver Twist

18. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?

(A) Mars

(B) Hercules

(D) Bacchus

19. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?

(A)Hopkins

(B)Tennyson

(C)Browning

(D)Wordsworth

20.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?

(A) Browning

(B) Tennyson

(D) Rossetti

21.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?

(A) The Tempest

(B) Henry IV, Pt I

(D) Twelfth Night

22. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’

occurs in?

(A) Act II, Scene I

(B) Act III, Scene III

(D) Act III, Scene I

23. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor

(A) Alonso

(B) Ariel

(D) Stephano

24. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?

(A) Or, What is you Will

(B) Or, What you Will

(D) Or, What you Think

25. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.

Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?

(A) The Tempest

(B) Hamlet

(D) Twelfth Night

26. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

(A) Earl of Northumberland

(B) Earl of March

(D) Earl of Worcester

27. Paradise Lost was originally written in?

(A) ten books

(B) eleven books

(D) eight books

28. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?

(A) Darcy

(B) Wickham

(D) Charles Bingley

29. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) P.B.Shelley

(D) John Keats

30. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?

(A) Philip Pirrip

(B) Filip Pirip

(C)Philip Pip

(D) Philips Pirip

31. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?

(A)Mexico

(B) Italy

(C)France

(D) Germany

32. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?

(A) The Inheritors

(B) Lord of the Flies

(D) Pyramid

33.Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?

(A) Mrs. Morel

(B) Annie

(D) Clara Dawes

34. Vanity Fair is a novel by?

(A) Jane Austen

(B) Charles Dickens

(D) Thomas Hardy

35. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?

(A) Milton

(B) Coleridge

(D) Johnson

36. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?

(A) The White Peacock

(B) The Trespasser

(D) Women in Love

37. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?

(A) Nature

(B) Dorothy

(D) Wye

38. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British

Romantics?

(A) Keats

(B) Wordsworth

(D) Byron

39. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?

(A) Work Without Hope

(B) Frost at Midnight

(D) Youth and Age

40. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—

(A) P. B. Shelley

(B) Charles Lamb

(D) Coleridge

41. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?

(A) Leigh Hunt

(B) Milton

(D) Thomas Chatterton

42. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?

(A) 1823

(B) 1826

(D) 1833

43. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?

(A) Keats

(B) Coleridge

(D) Wordsworth

44.Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School,

London?

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) William Wordsworth

(D) S. T. Coleridge

45. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?

(A) Tennyson

(8) Charles Lamb

(D) T. S. Eliot

46. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?

(A) A. H. Hallam

(B) Edward King

(D) P. B. Shelley

47. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?

(A) Robert Browning

(B) John Keble

(D) J. H. Newman

48. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..”?

(A) Chastelard

(B) A Song of Italy

(D) Songs before Sunrise

49. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?

(A) six lectures

(B) five lectures

(D) seven lectures

50. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?

(A) Johnson

(B) Cromwell

(D) Luther

51. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner?

(A) The Stones of Venice

(B) The Two Paths

(D) Modem Painters

52. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?

(A) Charles Dickens

(B) Anthony Trollope

(D) B. Disraeli

53. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’—

(A) Tennyson

(B) Browning

(D) D. G. Rossetti

54. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?

(A) Spenserian Stanza

(B) Ballad

(D) Rhyme Royal

55. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?

(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt

(B) William Shakespeare

(D) Milton

56. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?

(A) The Pre-Raphaelites

(B) Ruskin

(D) Matthew Arnold

57. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”

(A) Oxymoron

(B) Metaphor

(D) Synecdoche

58. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?

(A) Sailing to Byzantium

(B) Byzantium

(D) Leda and the Swan

59. Who is Pip’s friend in London?

(A) Pumblechook

(B) Herbert Pocket

(D) Jaggers

60. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?

(A) A teacher

(B) A clerk

(D) A dentist

1)One of Marlowe's earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem 'Pharsalia', written by which Roman poet?

a)Ovid

b)Lucan

c)Virgil

d)Horace

2) Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' begins with the line "Come live with me and be my love"; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line?

a)William Shakespeare

b)Thomas Kyd

c)John Dryden

d)John Donne

3)In Marlowe's play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta?

a)Lazarus

b)Solomon

c)Barabas

d)Shylock

4)How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil?

a)16

b)20

c)24

d)28

5) Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe?

a)Henry V

b)Richard III

c)Edward II

d)John

6)One of Marlowe's most famous poems was an account of which lovers?

a)Anthony and Cleopatra

b)Hero and Leander

c)Troilus and Cressida

d)Apollo and Hyacinth

7) Marlowe's play 'Tamburlaine the Great' was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?

a)Zhu Yuanzhang

b)Genghis Khan

c)Timur

d)Kublai Khan

8)What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?

a)The Massacre at Berlin

b)The Massacre at Rome

c)The Massacre at Copenhagen

d)The Massacre at Paris

9)In the title of Marlowe's play, of where was Dido the Queen?

a)Troy

b)Carthage

c)Sparta

d)Persia

10)Christopher Marlowe was England's first official Poet Laureate.

a)True

b)False (It was John Dryden-appointed in 1670)

Jacobean Era

1)In literature, some of Shakespeare's most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ________.

a)William Shakespeare

b)Ben Jonson

c)Ben Jonson folios

d)English Renaissance theatre

2)What proceeded Jacobean era?

a)Elizabethan Era

b)Caroline era

c)Victorian era

d)Jacobean Era

3)The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620–1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ________ in London in 1625.

a)Cholera

b)Tuberculosis

c)Bubonic plague

d)Plague (disease)

4)The word "Jacobean" is derived from the ________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James.

a)Samaritan Hebrew language

b)Biblical Hebrew

c)Mishnaic Hebrew

d)Hebrew language

5)The Jacobean era succeeds the ________ and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period.

a)Elizabethan era

b)English Reformation

c)England

d)Tudor period

6)Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the ______, which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era.

a)William Shakespeare

b)Ben Jonson

c)Masque

d)A Midsummer Night's Dream

7)the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem.

a)Iliad

b)Odyssey

c)Beowulf

d)Canterbury Tales

8)What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?

a)1592-1608

b)1603-1625

c)1607-1627

d)1608-1639

9)Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by?

a)Sir Walter Scot

b)Christopher Marlow

c)Ben Johnson

d)George Herbert

10)The foremost poet of Jacobean era was?

a)John Milton

b)Charles Bacon

c)John Donne

d)Herbert Spencer

11)"The Jacobean Era" refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries?

a) Jordan

b) England

c)Malaysia

d)Tunisia

>>>The foremost poets of the Jacobean era, Ben Jonson and John Donne, are regarded as the originators of two diverse poetic traditions—the Cavalier and the metaphysical.

Advance Prepration For NET

1 - Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

a) Rudyard Kipling

b) John Keats

c) Lewis Carroll

d) H G Wells

The Correct Option is – c) Lewis Carroll

2 - How many lines does a sonnet have?

a) 10

b) 12

c) 14

d) They vary

The Correct option is – c) 14

3 - Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?

a) Browning

b) Marx

c) Shakespeare

d) Kipling

The Correct option is – c) Shakespeare

4 - Name the book which opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'?

a) The Railway Children

b) Winnie the Poo

c) Jungle book

d) Peter Pan

The Correct option is – d) Peter Pan

5 - Which is the first Harry Potter book?

a) HP and the Goblet of Fire

b) HP and the Philosopher’s Stone

c) HP and the Chamber of Secrets

The Correct options – b) HP and the Philosopher’s Stone

6- In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written?

a) 14th

b) 15th

c) 16th

d) 17th

The Correct option is – 14th

7 - What nationality was Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of 'Treasure Island'?

a) Scottish

b) Welsh

c) Irish

d) French

The Correct option is – Scottish

8 - 'Jane Eyre' was written by which Bronte sister?

a) Anne

b) Charlotte

c) Emily

The Correct option is – Charlotte

9 - What is the book 'Lord of the Flies' about?

a) A round trip around the USA

b) A swarm of killer flies

c) Schoolboys on the desert island

The correct options is - Schoolboys on the desert island

10 - In the book' The Lord of the Rings', who or what is Bilbo?

a) Dwarf

b) Wizard

c) Hobbit

d) Troll

The Correct option is – Hobbit

11 - Who wrote the crime novel "Ten Little Niggers"?

a) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

b) Irvine Welsh

c) Agatha Christie

d) Emile Zola

The Correct option is – c) Agatha Christie

12. Which of the following writers in his 'Prefaces' revolted against the institution of Marriage?

a) George Bernard Shaw

b) Robert Frost

c) Virginia Woolf

d) Walt Whitman.

13. 'Mending Wall' is a poem by:

a) Emily Dickinson

b) Robert Frost

c) Walt Whitman

d) Edgar Allan Poe.

14.. An exclamatory song (often) addressed to a dead person, in the middle of a poem, may be referred to as:

a) Elegy

b) Ode

c) Aria

d) Apostrophe.

15. Which of the following writers tried to combat 'smasmodic tendencies' in poetry?

a) Arnold

b) Brooks

c) Coleridge

d) Derrida.

16.. In which following literary ages, can Tennyson be rightly classified?

a) Neo-classicism

b) Romantic

c) Victorian

d) Modern.

17.. Which of the following Victorian poets laid stress on 'Spiritual Development'?

a) Christina Rosetty

b) Tennyson

c) Browning

d) Arnold.

18. Which of the following writers experimented with 'living in woods and working with own hands'?

a) Henry David Thoreau

b) Henry Jones

c) Hawthorne

d) Walt Whitman.

19. 'The Hairy Ape' - author is?

a) Ernst Hemingway

b) S.T. Coleridge

c) R.W. Emerson

d) Eugene O`neil.

20. Which of the following writer's famous novel supports the theme of 'Art for Art's sake'?

a) Jane Austen

b) Herman Malville

c) Ernst Hemingway

d) Somerset Maugham.

21. Which of the following authors did not write about 'Sea-faring life'?

a) Ernst Hemingway

b) S.T. Coleridge

c) R.W. Emerson

d) Herman Malville.

Q.1Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement ?

a) Robert Browning

b) John Keble

c) E. B. Pusey

d) J. H. Newman

Q.2 W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem .

a) Sailing to Byzantium

b) Byzantium

c) The Second Coming

d) Leda and the Swan

Q.3 Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Pt I contains his

a) senecan attitude

b) patriotism

c) love of nature

d) platonic ideals

Q.144 Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen ?

a) Sense and Sensibility

b) Mansfield Park

c) Sandition

d) Persuasion

Q.4 Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in Great Expectations ?

a) She was poor

b) She was arrogant

c) Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom

d) She was unwilling to marry

Q.5 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a

a) Picaresque novel

b) Gothic novel

c) Domestic novel

d) Historical novel

Q.6 Who is Pip’s friend in London ?

a) Pumblechook

b) Herbert Pocket

c) Bentley Drummle

d) Jaggers

Q.7 The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the

a) Puritan movement

b) Romantic revival

c) Neo-classical age

d) Metaphysical school

Q.8 The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is

a) Queen Victoria’s coronation

b) Industrial Revolution

c) Women’s Education and Rights

d) Rise of Democracy

Q.9 Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to theWest Wind’ ?

a) Rime royal

b) Ottava rima

c) Terza rima

d) Spenserian Stanza

Q.10 What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night ?

a) Or, What is you Will

b) Or, What you Will

c) Or, What you Like It

d) Or, What you Think

Q.11 ‘O, you are sick of self-love.’ Who is referred to in these words in Twelfth Night ?

a) Orsino

b) Sir Andrew

c) Sir Toby

d) Malvolio

Q.12 Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson : ‘‘Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.’’

a) Oxymoron

b) Metaphor

c) Simile

d) Synecdoche

Q.13 Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet

a) P. B. Shelley

b) Charles Lamb

c) Hazlitt

d) Coleridge

Q.14 Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations ?

a) Philip Pirrip

b) Filip Pirip

c) Philip Pip

d) Philips Pirip

Q.15 Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of

a) Milton

b) Coleridge

c) Keats

d) Johnson

Q.16 ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ is a quotation from

a) Milton

b) William Shakespeare

c) T. S. Eliot

d) Ruskin

Q.17 The novel The Power and the Glory is set in

a) Mexico

b) Italy

c) France

d) Germany

Q.18. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?

a) Mars

b) Hercules

c) Zeus

d) Bacchus

Q.19 Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a

a) lawyer

b) postman

c) judge

d) school teacher

Q.20 Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to

a) Leigh Hunt

b) Milton

c) Shakespeare

d) Thomas Chatterton

Q.21 Estella is the daughter of

a) Joe Gargery

b) Abel Magwitch

c) Miss Havisham

d) Bentley Drummle

Q.22 D. G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of .

a) Keats

b) Byron

c) Shelley

d) Wordsworth

Q.23 Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’ ?

a) Keats

b) Coleridge

c) Southey

d) Wordsworth

Q.24. Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?

a) Kimberley — Diamond

b) Havana — Meat packing

c) Milan — Silk

d) Sheffield — Cutlery

Q.25. Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream ?

a) Kubla Khan

b) Christabel

c) The Ancient Mariner

d) Ode on the Departing Year

Q.26. ‘The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.’ This line occurs in

a) Hamlet

b) Henry IV, Pt I

c) The Tempest

d) Twelfth Night

Q.27 ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line occurs in the poem

a) Immortality Ode

b) Tintern Abbey

c) The Second Coming

d) Leda and the Swan

Q.28 Wordsworth calls himself ‘a Worshipper of Nature’ in his poem

a) Immortality Ode

b) Tintern Abbey

c) The Prelude

d) The Solitary Reaper

Q.29. Vanity Fair is a novel by

a) Jane Austen

b) Charles Dickens

c) W. M. Thackeray

d) Thomas Hardy

Q.30 The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the

a) French Revolution

b) Glorious Revolution of 1688

c) Reformation

d) Oxford Movement

Q.31. Essays of Elia are

a) full of didactic sermonising

b) practically autobiographical fragments

c) remarkable for their aphoristic style

d) satirical and critical

Q.32. ‘My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect.’’ Who wrote this ?

a) Graham Greene

b) D. H. Lawrence

c) Charles Dickens

d) Jane Austen

Q.33. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures

a) Great Expectations

b) The Power and the Glory

c) Lord of the Flies

d) Pride and Prejudice

Q.34. ‘The better part of valour is discretion’ occurs in Shakespeare’s

a) Hamlet

b) Twelfth Night

c) The Tempest

d) Henry IV, Pt I

Q.35. Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel Great Expectations ?

a) Direct or epic method

b) Documentary method

c) Stream of Consciousness technique

d) Autobiographical method

Q.36 Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is included in

a) Dramatis Personae

b) Dramatic Idyls

c) Asolando

d) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country

Q.37. ‘Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale’. Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night ?

a) Duke Orsino

b) Malvolio

c) Sir Andrew Aguecheek

d) Sir Toby Belch

Q.38. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I ?

a) Earl of Northumberland

b) Earl of March

c) Earl of Douglas

d) Earl of Worcester

Q.39. Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims, ‘Brave, new, world !’ ?

a) Ferdinand

b) Antonio

c) Miranda

d) Prospero

Q.40. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work—

a) Charles Dickens

b) W. M. Thackeray

c) Graham Greene

d) D. H. Lawrence

Q.41. Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London ?

a) Charles Lamb

b) William Wordsworth

c) Leigh Hunt

d) S. T. Coleridge

Q.42. Who was Fortinbras ?

a) Claudius’s son

b) Son to the king of Norway

c) Ophelia’s lover

d) Hamlet’s friend

Q.43. Epipsychidion is composed by

a) Coleridge

b) Wordsworth

c) Keats

d) Shelley

Q.44. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with

a) Darcy

b) Wickham

c) William Collins

d) Charles Bingley

Q.45. Who wrote Biographia Literaria ?

a) Byron

b) Shelley

c) Coleridge

d) Lamb

Q.46. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by

a) Catholicism

b) Protestantism

c) Paganism

d) Buddhism

1)In what country is 'Dr Faustus' based?

a)England

b)Italy

c)France

d)Germany

2) When, is it estimated, was 'Dr Faustus' first performed?

a)1594

b)1604

c)1590

d)1593

3) At what famous university is Faustus a scholar?

a)Wittenburg

b)Sorbonne

c)Heidelberg

d)Cambridge

4) Faustus' servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?

a)Bach

b)Schumann

c)Beethoven

d)Wagner

5) Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?

a)Valdes and Cornelius

b)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

c)Troilus and Cressida

d)Pyramus and Thisbe

6) Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of the devil's angels?

a)Mephastophilis

b)beelzebub

c)Aamon

7) What does Faustus promise to the devil in exchange for great knowledge, riches and power for a period of 24 years?

a)his body

b)his house

c)his soul

d)his horse

8) Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus' character at the beginning of the play?

a)kind

b)stupid

c)sensitive

d)arrogant

9) Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers?

a)The Pope

b)The Holy Roman Emperor

c)The King of England

d)The King of France

10) At the end of the play, Faustus is dragged down to hell, begging to repent.

a)True

b)False

1.what was the occupation of Chaucer's father?

a. leather merchant

b.civil servant

c. a vintner

2. Chaucer became a page to which king's daught-in-law?

a. Edward III

b. Richard II

c. Henry IV

3. which of these is not certain about Chaucer?

a. his birth date

b. his death year

c. his father's name

4. which of these kings was not served by Chaucer?

a. Edward III

b. Henry II

c. Richard II

5.what was the duration of hundred year's war?

a.1300 to 1350

b.1337 to 1453

c. 1302 to 1343

6.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

7.one of Chaucer's daughter was............?

a. a musician

b. an astronomer

c. a nun

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

a. 1360

b. 1357

c. 1378

9.chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for..............?

a. beating a friar in a London street

b. for writing poetry against the church

c. for crossing the border of Great Britain

10. Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces,which of these was not in his charge?

a. Westminster Palace

b. Tower of London

c. St. George's chapel at Windsor

d. Buckingham Palace

11. Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during.............?

a. 1374 to 1385

b. 1350 to 1360

c. 1360 to 1400

12. Chaucer was released from legal action by ........................ in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction?

a. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne

b. Philippa de Roet of Flanders

c. Agnes de Copton

13. Chaucer became a member of Parliament in...........?

a. 1386

b. 1300

c. 1343

14. Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as.........?

a. Chaucer's corner

b. poet's corner

c. legend's corner

15. what was chaucer's profession?

a. a poet

b. a merchant

c. a civil servant

1. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry

rhyme scheme
meter
alliteration

2. The repetition of similar ending sounds

alliteration
onomatopoiea
rhyme

3. Applying human qualities to non-human things

personification
onomatopoeia
alliteration

4. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

rhyme
onomatopoeia
alliteration

5. A comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as

metaphor
simile
personification

6. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

metaphor
simile
personification

7. Using words or letters to imitate sounds

alliteration
simile
onomatopoeia

8. a description that appeals to one of the five senses

imagery
personification
metaphor

9. A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters

lyric
free verse
narrative

10. A poem with no meter or rhyme

lyric
free verse
narrative

11. A poem that generally has meter and rhyme

lyric
free verse
narrative

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