Top 50+ Solved History of English Literature 1 MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who is considered as the first English poet?
a. chaucer
b. caedmon
c. william langland
d. robert burns
Q. Who is the author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People ?
a. bede
b. chaucer
c. johnson
d. bacon
Q. The Hundred Years of War between………..
a. england and france
b. england and germany
c. france and germany
d. ireland and england
Q. Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales?
a. william langland
b. geoffrey chaucer
c. robert burn
d. spenser
Q. The Middle Age was held to begin in England with……………
a. hundred years war
b. peasant revolt
c. black death
d. the norman conquest
Q. Who led The Norman Conquest?
a. james i
b. william the duke of normandy
c. julius caesar
d. william wycliffe
Q. Name of the elegy written by Chaucer on the death of Blanche, the wife of John of Gaunt
a. the house of fame
b. troilus and criseyde
c. the book of the duchess
d. the roman de la rose
Q. The first English Printer, who set up printing press in 1476
a. gower
b. caxton
c. william bailey
d. malory
Q. A short traditional and popular story in verse of unknown authorship is called…………
a. lyric
b. ballad
c. elegy
d. sonnet