1.The Canterbury Tales (Middle English Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. In 1389 , Chaucer be a__________?
a).Controller of customs
b).Justice of the peace
c).Clerk of the King’s works
d).Bureaucrat
springline's Correct option: c).Clerk of the King’s works
2.The Canterbury tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral . The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn. Which place the Tabard Inn was located in ?
a).Shrine of Saint
b).Southwark
c).Saint Thomas Becket
d).Canterbury
springline's Correct option: b).Southwark
3.Middle English was a form of the English Language spoken after the Norman conquest (1066) until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Scholarly opinion varies, but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period , when Middle English was spoken as being from the years of _______?
a).1150 - 1600
b).1100 - 1500
c).1200 - 1800
d).1150 - 1500
springline's Correct option: d).1150 - 1500
4.The Middle English period (about 1470) aided by the invention of Printing Press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439, a standard based on the London dialects, had become established. Since that time, Middle English was succeeded in England by Early Modern English, which lasted until about 1650. Scots developed concurrently from a variant of the Dialect (prevalent in northern England and spoken in southeast Scotland ).What is the name of the Dialect which developed by Scots?
a).Chancery Standard Dialect
b).Northumbrian Dialect
c).Cockney
d).Mercian Dialect
springline's Correct option: b).Northumbrian Dialect
5.The Decameron, a collection of short stories written by Boccaccio. Decameron, which reflects literally Italian Tradition. Boccaccio’s Decameron, which Chaucer may have read during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in the year of ?
a).1370
b).1371
c).1372
d).1374
springline's Correct option: c).1372
6.The Gawain Poet, is the name given to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English. The language of the poems shows that the poet was a contemporary of Geoffery Chaucer , John Gower, William Langland , who are sometimes (following the suggestion of academic John Burrow) collectively called as ________?
a).Ricardian Poets
b).Lake Poets
c).Richardian poets
d).Pearl Poets
springline's Correct option: a).Ricardian Poets
7.Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. Although Troilus is a character from ?
a).Ancient Latin Literature
b).Ancient Arabian stories
c).Canadian Literature
d).Ancient Greek Literature
springline's Correct option: d).Ancient Greek Literature
8.The prologue to the Canterbury tales which was written by Chaucer. In this work at the end of the section, the Host proposes that the group ride together and entertain one another with stories. They were 858 lines in this work.'The best sentence and moost solaas' this line come with the line of _______?
a).line 789
b). line 816
c).line 758
d).line 556
springline's Correct option: a).line 789
9.The epic poem Teseida full title Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia,( or 'The Theseid, Concerning the Nuptials of Emily') by Giovanni Boccaccio is the source of the tale, although Chaucer makes many significant diversions from that poem. The Teseida has 9,896 lines in twelve books .whose tale has only 2,250 lines—though it is still one of the longest poems in the Tales of Canterbury ?
a).Host’s tale
b).Knight’s tale
c).Wife of Bath ‘s tale
d).Parson’s tale
springline's Correct option: b).Knight’s tale
10.'The Squire's Tale' is a tale in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. It is unfinished, perhaps deliberately, and comes first in group , followed by the Franklin’s interruption, prologue and tale. The Squire is the Knight ‘s son, a novice warrior and lover with more enthusiasm than experience. His tale is an _____?
a).Epic Comedy
b).Epic Tragedy
c).Epic Romance
d).Mock Epic
springline's Correct option: c).Epic Romance
11.Hagiography which is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, and by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world religious. In Canterbury tales ,who told the tale about of the life of Saint Cecilia ?
a).Nun
b).The Second Nun
c).Cook
d).Monk
springline's Correct option: b).The Second Nun
12.'The Nun's Priest's Tale' (Middle English: The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, Chauntecleer and Pertelote) is one of The Canterbury Tales by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. It is a beast fable and mock epic based on an incident in the Reynard cycle. The story of Chanticleer and the Fox became further popularised in Britain through this meaning , and it was composed in ________?
a).1390s
b).1380s
c).1378s
d).1382s
springline's Correct option: a).1390s
13.One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c. 1706–1721), which rendered the title as __________?
a).The Arabian Night’s Stories
b).The Arabian Night’s Entertainment
c).The Arabian Night’s tales
d).The Arabian Folk tales
springline's Correct option: b).The Arabian Night’s Entertainment
14.The Tale of Gamelyn is a romance written in c. 1350 in a dialect of Middle English, considered part of the Matter of England It is presented in a style of rhymed couplets and described by Skeat as 'the older and longer kind of ballad' and by Ramsey as a 'rough and ready romance. 'This 900-line romance is set during the reign of ________?
a).Richard II
b).Edward I
c).Richard I
d).Edward II
springline's Correct option: b).Edward I
15.whose tale is the first tale of Group E (Fragment IV) in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and it is preceded by The Summoner's Tale and followed by The Merchant's Tale ?
a).The pardon’s tale
b).The clerk’s tale
c).Monk’s tale
d).squire’s tale
springline's Correct option: b).The clerk’s tale
16.William Langland the presumed author of a work of Middle English alliterative verse generally known as Piers Plowman, an allegory with a complex variety of religious themes. Robert Crowley's 1550 edition of Piers Plowman promoted the idea that Langland was a follower of __________?.
a).John Wycliffe
b).Geoffrey Chaucer
c).John Gawain
d).Plato
springline's Correct option: a).John Wycliffe
17.William Caxton as an English merchant, diplomat, and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, and as a printer was the first English retailer of printed books. The first version of The Canterbury Tales to be published in print was William Caxton's edition in the year of ________?
a).1487
b).1476
c).1473
d).1480
springline's Correct option: b).1476
18.The Prick of Conscience is a Middle English poem dating from the first half of the fourteenth century promoting penitential reflection. It is, in terms of the number of surviving manuscripts, the best attested poem written in English before print, with over 130 known copies. The text is divided into _____?
a).Four section
b).Seven section
c).Five section
d).six section
springline's Correct option: b).Seven section
19.In Canterbury Tales which has planned to conduct 120 stories by the pilgrims. Whose story is a third story of told in The Canterbury tales of Chaucer?
a).Miller’s tale
b).Cook’s tale
c).Reeve’s tale
d).squire’s tale
springline's Correct option: c).Reeve’s tale
20.Geoffery Chaucer presumably never finished 'The Cook's Tale' although some scholars argue that Chaucer deliberately left the tale unfinished. The story starts telling of an apprentice named Perkyn (a.k.a. Perkin) who is fond of drinking and dancing. The cook’s tale breaks off after ________?
a).48 lines
b).58 lines
c).50 lines
d).61 lines
springline's Correct option: b).58 lines
21.The Manciple who is a one of the pilgrims in Canterbury tales. He works at Inn of court. He is smart and frugal .What is the tale, he told in the Canterbury tales of Chaucer ?
a).White Crow tale
b).A Merry tale
c).Loath of some lady tale
d).Evil of Marriage
springline's Correct option: a).White Crow tale
22.The Friar who is one of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. The Friar a man who seduces young girl and he carries knives and Pins in his sleeves. What is the real of The Friar’s?
a).Orewald
b).Alyson
c).Hubert
d).Robyn
springline's Correct option: c).Hubert
23.The Monk is one of the Pilgrims of Canterbury tales. The Monk who loves hunting , and glutton . The Monk's Tale' is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Monk's tale to the other pilgrims is a collection of 17 short stories. The theme of the stories are______?
a).Comedy
b).Tragedy
c).Romantic Tragedy
d).Romantic Comedy
springline's Correct option: b).Tragedy
24.The 'tale', which is the longest of all the surviving contributions by Chaucer's pilgrims, is in fact neither a story nor a poem, but a long and unrelieved prose treatise on penance. Who’s story a final tale of Poetic cycle in Canterbury Tales of Chaucer?
a).The summoner’s tale
b).The Miller’s tale
c).A Parson’s tale
d).The Parson’s tale
springline's Correct option: c).A Parson’s tale
25.The clerk’s tale is preceded by The Summoner's Tale and followed by The Merchant's Tale. The Clerk of Oxford (modern Oxford) is a student of what would nowadays be considered philosophy or theology. He tells the tale of _______?
a).A Merry tale
b).Loath of some lady tale
c).Evil of Marriage
d).Griselda
springline's Correct option: d).Griselda
26.The Book of the Duchess, is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, 'An ABC', and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Based on the themes and title of the poem. The Book of Duches also known as ________?
a).The Death of Horse
b).The Deth of Blaunche
c).The Deth of Duchess
d).The Death Empire
springline's Correct option: b).The Deth of Blaunche
27.In Canterbury tales , The Wife of Bath's tale, spoken by one who had been married over ten times, argues that women are morally identical to men who have also had more than one spouse. Double standards for men and women were common and deeply rooted in culture. What is the theme of wife of Bath’s tale?
a).Marriage
b).Male domination
c).Sexuality
d).Feminism
springline's Correct option: c).Sexuality
28.The Physician's Tale' is one of The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century. It is a domestic drama about the relationship between a daughter and her father. The Physician’s Tale is based on a tale from
a).Roman Historian Livy
b).Boccaccio’s one of the tale
c).Tale of Constance
d).Folktale
springline's Correct option: a).Roman Historian Livy
29.In Canterbury Tales ,The parson’s tale tends to appear near the end of most manuscripts of the poem, and the prologue to the final tale, 'The Parson's Tale', makes it clear it was intended as the penultimate story in the collection. Whose tale have a purchasing agent for a law court, tells a fable about Phoebus Apollo and his pet crow?
a).The Miller’s tale
b).The Manciple’s tale
c).Pardoner’s tale
d).Reeve’s tale
springline's Correct option: b).The Manciple’s tale
30.The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. Who planned to told the tales of Sir Thopas and Tale of Melibee ?
a).The Man of Law’s tale
b).The Shipman’s tale
c).Narrator’s tale
d).Host’s tale
springline's Correct option: c).Narrator’s tale