1) The Hundred Years’ War in 14th and 15th century made a strenuous effort to rule the kingdom of
A:) Spain
B:) France
C:) Italy
D:) Ireland
springline's Correct option: B
2) In the revival of learning, who remarked Chaucer as “The Morning Star of the Renaissance”?
A:) William Langland
B:) Marlowe
C:) Edward Albert
D:) John Skelton
springline's Correct option: C
3) Chaucer first uses rhyme royal in
A:) Troilus and Criseyde
B:) Parliament of Fowls
C:) The Legend of Good Women
D:) A Treatise on the Astrophel
springline's Correct option: A
4) The 14th century author to be known as “Pearl Poet”
A:) Sir William Gower
B:) Sir Gawan
C:) Geoffrey Chaucer
D:) Sir John Pearl
springline's Correct option: C
5) Chaucer was instigated by the pilgrim ………… and ………. of The Divine Comedy, who were one of the sources for the Canterbury Tales
A:) Virgil and Ovid
B:) Virgil and Dante
C:) Dante and Alighieri
D:) Dante and Ovid
springline's Correct option: B
6) Lollardly is a religious movement by
A:) Dante
B:) Chaucer
C:) Wycliff
D:) Boccaccio
springline's Correct option: C
7) It happened for the pilgrims to locate Southwark, to seek the blessing of the Archbishop. Where did the pilgrims accommodate themselves?
A:) Inn
B:) Stable
C:) Mansion
D:) Lodge
springline's Correct option: A
8) The pilgrims in the hostelry were aroused by a rooster. Who is the rooster in the prologue?
A:) Cook
B:) Chaucer
C:) Host
D:) Prioress
springline's Correct option: C
9) Identify the correct statement of Miller.
A:) fire-red face
B:) had concubine for twelve months
C:) participates in wrestling matches
D:) children afraid of his swollen eyelids
springline's Correct option: C
10) Match the correct pair.
A:) Flanders – Miller
B:) Lord of Balat – Squire
C:) Secretary – Nun
D:) Beaver hat – Merchant
springline's Correct option: D
11) The Squire as his father, The Knight took expeditions to various countries and among them where did his successful cavalry expeditions take place?
A:) Flanders, Luthania and Russia
B:) Artois, Picardy and Flanders
C:) Morocco, Russia and Picardy
D:) Picardy, Luthania and Russia
springline's Correct option: B
12) Which pilgrim is compared as fresh as month of May?
A:) Squire
B:) Wife of Bath
C:) Prioress
D:) Monk
springline's Correct option: A
13) Whose sleep is analogous to a nightingale?
A:) Knight
B:) Miller
C:) Squire
D:) Reeve
springline's Correct option: C
14) “A sheaf of peacock arrows, bright and keen,
He carried under his belt very properly”. Who is he?
A:) Miller
B:) Yeoman
C:) Summoner
D:) Knight
springline's Correct option: B
15) Madam Eglantine, who always has emotion in animals, spoke French of
A:) Startford at Bow
B:) Startford at Warwick
C:) Startford at Evesham
D:) Startford at Avon
springline's Correct option: A
16) The Prioress fed her hounds with
A:) Meat soup, chicken bones and milk
B:) Meat soup, chicken bones and bread
C:) White bread, milk and meat
D:) Brown bread, milk and meat
springline's Correct option: C
17) The wimple pleated fair forehead of the prioress is assumed to be
A:) 10 inches
B:) 8 inches
C:) 9 inches
D:) 6 inches
springline's Correct option: C
18) This virile man has fine horses in his stable and one could hear his horse’s bridle as loud as chapel bell. Whose horse it was?
A:) Knight
B:) Monk
C:) Miller
D:) Squire
springline's Correct option: B
19) Who is this ecclesiastical pilgrim whose eye was glisten like a furnace under a cauldron?
A:) Reeve
B:) Summoner
C:) Prioress
D:) Monk
springline's Correct option: D
20) What was the absolution given by the Friar to the sinner’s who doesn’t weep and pray
A:) to afford silver to the poor friars
B:) to afford gold to the poor friars
C:) to afford bronze to the poor friars
D:) to afford currencies to the poor friars
springline's Correct option: A
21) The Friar’s hood was full of pins and …………
A:) Cutleries
B:) Knives
C:) Sticks
D:) Blades
springline's Correct option: B
22) Among the pilgrims the Squire and the Friar were estimable at playing musical instruments. The Squire is well experienced in fluting and what is that musical instrument, the Friar is good at? A:) Rote
B:) Flute
C:) Sasando
D:) Zither
springline's Correct option: A
23) Whose neck is white as lily flowers?
A:) Friar
B:) Monk
C:) Miller
D:) Squire
springline's Correct option: A
24) What is the meaning of “in principo”
A:) In the end
B:) In the pain
C:) In the beginning
D:) in the pleasure
springline's Correct option: C
25) The Clerk, Oxford University student spends all his savings in buying books. How many books he had in the head of his bed?
A:) Thirty
B:) Five
C:) Hundred
D:) Twenty
springline's Correct option: D
26) Whose beard is as white as daisy?
A:) Miller
B:) Franklin
C:) Knight
D:) Squire
springline's Correct option: B
27) Who is the son of the Greek Philosopher Epicurus who believed the world is the combination of atoms?
A:) Reeve
B:) Sergeant
C:) Franklin
D:) Haberdasher
springline's Correct option: C
28) Franklin is called Saint Julian in his country. Who is Saint Julian?
A:) Patron of hospitality
B:) Patron of humour
C:) Patron of humility
D:) Patron of courtesy
springline's Correct option: A
29) Whose house is snowed with food and drinks?
A:) Shipman
B:) Franklin
C:) Miller
D:) Merchant
springline's Correct option: B
30) “For all I know, he is from Dartmouth”. Who is he?
A:) The Merchant
B:) Miller
C:) Shipman
D:) Reeve
springline's Correct option: C
31) The man knew tricks in trade steals wine from Bordeaux, when the merchants are asleep. Who is he?
A:) Merchant
B:) Shipman
C:) Miller
D:) Pardoner
springline's Correct option: B
32) Which country is known as Hull of Cartagena
A:) Mediterranean Sea
B:) England
C:) Spain
D:) Germany
springline's Correct option: C
33) The Shipman is familiar with all the harbors from Gotland to the Cape of Finisterre. What is the name of his ship?
A:) Maudelayne
B:) Caligula
C:) Argonaute
D:) Phobe
springline's Correct option: A
34) Who believed gold in creating a new impulse for malady?
A:) Dyer
B:) Host
C:) Doctor
D:) Sergeant
springline's Correct option: C
35) The good wife of bath skilled in cloth making surpassed the cloths from Ghent and ……….
A:) Saint James
B:) Ypress
C:) Morocco
D:) Ghana
springline's Correct option: B
36) The worthy woman all her life the wife of bath made her travelling to Jerusalem ____ times.
A:) Two
B:) Three
C:) Five
D:) Ten
springline's Correct option: B
37) Name the country not visited by the wife of bath.
A:) Luthania
B:) Cologne
C:) Rome
D:) Boulogne
springline's Correct option: A
38) Who rode in the Tabard with a mare?
A:) Miller
B:) Plowman
C:) Sergeant
D:) Parson
springline's Correct option: B
39) This chronic man, secretly very rich and knew how to please his lord. Who is he?
A:) Parson
B:) Monk
C:) Reeve
D:) Summoner
springline's Correct option: C
40) Name the money minded pilgrim called sheriff and auditor of taxes.
A:) Doctor
B:) Sergeant
C:) Franklin
D:) Shipman
springline's Correct option: C
41) Chaucer was captured by ________during the Hundred Years’ War but quickly released on ransom.
A:) the Germans
B:) the French
C:) the Irish
D:) the Scots
springline's Correct option: B
42) The Prologue to Canterbury Tales begins with_____________, with the contrasting symbolism of pagan sexual energy and Christian spiritual rebirth.
A:) a famous description of summer
B:) a famous description of spring
C:) a description of the characters of the Tale
D:) a description of the inn they stay in
springline's Correct option: B
43) The Prologue to Canterbury Tales sets up the frame story that holds the rest
of the tales together. It is loosely in the form of an estates satire which is ___________
A:) a satirical analysis of the religion of England of that time
B:) a satirical description of the different set of people in different states
C:) a satirical analysis of the different estates of society
D:) a mockery on the people of the various states of England
springline's Correct option: C
44) Which among the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is false?
A:) Chaucer is one of the pilgrims in the Tales.
B:) The Tales is a satire about the estates.
C:) In Chaucer's time society had changed, and people were not as easily classified among estates, which is one reason why a satire about the estates was possible.
D:) Chaucer is staying at an Inn in North wark before embarking on the journey to Canterbury
springline's Correct option: D
45) In the Prologue to Canterbury Tales, Chaucer introduces each pilgrim in turn, describing their, (1) Professions (2) Social status (3) Family (4) Education (5) Clothing
A:) 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
B:) 1, 2 & 3
C:) 1, 2 & 5
D:) 2, 3 & 4
springline's Correct option: C
46) In the Prologue to Canterbury Tales, to make the time go by more quickly on the journey, each of the company will agree to _____ tell stories on the way there and _____on the way back.
A:) three & two
B:) two & two
C:) two & one
D:) Four & one
springline's Correct option: B
47) In the Prologue to Canterbury Tales, the Host who agrees to judge the stories tells that
the person who tells the best one will win _____________ when they return.
A:) a free meal at the inn
B:) a free stay for a day at the inn
C:) a free drink at the inn
D:) a free ticket to a royal ball
springline's Correct option: A
48) According to the Canterbury Tales, in the Middle Ages there were three main estates, first, second and third—the first estate included _________________
A:) the warrior class
B:) members of working class
C:) members of Aristocracy
D:) members of the clergy and religious orders
springline's Correct option: D
49) According to the Canterbury Tales, in the Middle Ages there were three main estates, first, second and third —the second estate were made up of_____________.
A:) members of the clergy and religious
B:) the nobility
C:) peasants
D:) working women
springline's Correct option: B
50) According to the Canterbury Tales, in the Middle Ages there were three main estates, first, second and third —the third estate were composed of__________.
A:) physicians
B:) farmers
C:) gypsies
D:) traders
springline's Correct option: B
51) Chaucer's individual descriptions of the pilgrims give readers a sense of their________.
A:) characteristics and temperament
B:) social class alone
C:) personalities as well as social class
D:) temperament alone
springline's Correct option: C
52) In the Prologue to Canterbury Tales, who among the following does not suggest for the tale-telling competition?
A:) Chaucer
B:) The Host
C:) Harry Bailey
D:) The Host of the Tabard Inn
springline's Correct option: A
53) In the Prologue to Canterbury Tales, the description of _____________stained, modest clothes show that he truly fights well and is not showy or vain.
A:) The Friar’s
B:) The Squire’s
C:) The Knight’s
D:) The Clerk’s
springline's Correct option: C
54) In the Prologue to Canterbury Tales, The Squire, says the narrator, wants to find favour with his lady. His tunic is embroidered with flowers, as if he had gathered a meadow and sewn it to his clothes, and his gown is short with wide sleeves. The Squire is constantly singing and playing__________.
A:) the mouth-organ
B:) the piano
C:) the flute
D:) the trumpet
springline's Correct option: C
55) In the Prologue to Canterbury Tales, __________is described as a good horseman and rides along with a pack of swift greyhounds. His sleeves are trimmed with expensive squirrel fur, and his hood is fastened with a gold pin into an elaborate knot.
A:) The Shipman
B:) The Monk
C:) The Squire
D:) Franklin
springline's Correct option: B
56) In the Prologue to Canterbury Tales, ___________is a slender, choleric man with a closely cropped beard and stick-thin legs. No auditor can ever catch him: he knows the accounts of his lord’s estate extremely well, and all the farm-managers, herdsmen, and servants fear him.
A:) The Reeve
B:) The Summoner
C:) The Pardoner
D:) The Miller
springline's Correct option: A
57) In the Prologue to Canterbury Tales, which of the following character’s main goal on life is pleasure and delight?
A:) The cook
B:) Guildsmen
C:) Roger de Ware
D:) Franklin
springline's Correct option: D
58) The Wife of Bath, one of the few female pilgrims, is one of Chaucer’s most entertaining and lively characters in The Canterbury Tales. She is proud and quick tempered. Her_______ face and stockings come from medieval stereotypes, a symbol of lust.
A:) rose
B:) red
C:) pale
D:) yellow
springline's Correct option: B
59) Which of the characters in The Canterbury Tales, on his/her way to Sunday mass, wraps his/her head in scarves that the narrator says must weigh ten pounds.
A:) The Second nun
B:) The Man of Laws
C:) The Wife of Bath
D:) The Prioress
springline's Correct option: C
60) According to the Canterbury Tales, in the Middle Ages there were three main estates. Although women were part of these informal social categories, they also had their own estates. Which among the following is not an estate of women? (1) Virgins (2) Wives (3) Girls (4) Widows
A:) 1 & 2
B:) 3 alone
C:) 2 & 3
D:) 4 alone
springline's Correct option: B