Top 50+ Solved History of English Literature 1 MCQ Questions Answer

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Q. Who is considered as the first English poet?

a. chaucer

b. caedmon

c. william langland

d. robert burns

  • b. caedmon

Q. Who is the author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People ?

a. bede

b. chaucer

c. johnson

d. bacon

  • a. bede

Q. Name of the Anglo Saxon epic

a. the wanderer

b. dream of the rood

c. beowulf

d. brut

  • c. beowulf

Q. The Hundred Years of War between………..

a. england and france

b. england and germany

c. france and germany

d. ireland and england

  • a. england and france

Q. In which year the peasant Revolt happened?

a. 1381

b. 1300

c. 1350

d. 1400

  • a. 1381

Q. Who is the author of ‘Piers Plowman’?

a. caedmon

b. bede

c. william langland

d. layamon

  • c. william langland

Q. The earliest surviving English poem

a. king horn

b. piers plowman

c. brut

d. beowulf

  • d. beowulf

Q. Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales?

a. william langland

b. geoffrey chaucer

c. robert burn

d. spenser

  • b. geoffrey chaucer

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

  • 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

  • b. william the duke of normandy

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

  • c. the book of the duchess

Q. When did ‘The General Prologue’ of Canterbury Tales compose?

a. 1387.

b. 1300

c. 1400

d. 1378

  • a. 1387.

Q. The first English Printer, who set up printing press in 1476

a. gower

b. caxton

c. william bailey

d. malory

  • b. caxton

Q. In which year the first printing press was set up in England?

a. 1400

b. 1569

c. 1476

d. 1430

  • c. 1476
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