Top 80+ Solved British Literature from Chaucer MCQ Questions Answer

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Q. Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

a. oscar wilde

b. sir gawain

c. geoffrey chaucer

d. william shakespeare

  • c. geoffrey chaucer

Q. In the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the parson's brother is the

a. doctor

b. knight

c. oxford cleric

d. plowman

  • d. plowman

Q. The Canterbury Tales is structured as a

a. parody

b. folk ballad

c. melodrama

d. frame story

  • d. frame story

Q. In the opening lines of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the narrator

a. criticises chivalry

b. attacks the corruption in the church

c. rejoices in the renewing cycle of life

d. establishes the ideal of the renaissance man

  • c. rejoices in the renewing cycle of life

Q. In the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's characters are

a. on a religious pilgrimage

b. part of a wedding party

c. in a riding club

d. on their way to the holy land

  • a. on a religious pilgrimage

Q. Chaucer's wife of Bath is

a. shy

b. patient

c. independent

d. humourless

  • c. independent

Q. Immediately prior to joining the others in the pilgrimage to Canterbury, the knight had

a. been at court

b. gone to visit his rural estate

c. been engaged in battles overseas

d. bought new clothes for the pilgrimage

  • c. been engaged in battles overseas

Q. In describing the friar as "a noble pillar to his Order", Chaucer uses

a. epigram

b. irony

c. inversion

d. apostrophe

  • b. irony

Q. The sonnet is addressed to a ____

a. young man

b. young woman

c. old man

d. beautiful girl

  • a. young man

Q. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

a. 123

b. 148

c. 188

d. 154

  • d. 154

Q. Shakespeare's sonnets were published in ____

a. 1611

b. 1609

c. 1599

d. 1623

  • b. 1609

Q. Who was the publisher of Shakespeare's sonnets?

a. richard burbage

b. cuthbert burbage

c. thomas thorpe

d. henry wriothesley

  • c. thomas thorpe
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