Unit-I Part-I

1.      Who is considered as the father of English literature?

a.  Geoffrey Chaucer     

b. William Langland    

c. William Shakespeare       

d. John Milton

2.      Which among the following is a work of Geoffrey Chaucer?

a.  The Book of the Duchess              

b. The House of Fame

c.  The Legend of Good Women   

d. All of them

3.      Match the following authors with their works :

                 i.          Geoffrey Chaucer                                   -              (a) Vox Clamantis

                ii.          John Gower                                            -              (b) The Answer to a Poisoned Book

               iii.          Thomas More                                         -              (c) Mother Hubberd’s Tale

               iv.          Edmund Spenser                                    -              (d) Parlement of Foules

a.  (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c          

b. (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c

b.       

c.  (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a        

d. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a

4.      Which among the following book is an elegy of Chaucer for ‘Blanche of Lancaster’?

a.  The Book of the Duchess    

b. The House of Fame

c.  The Legend of Good Women    

d. Troilus and Criseyde

5.      Treatise on the Astrolabe is a work of :

a.  Geoffrey Chaucer  

b. William Langland    

c. William Shakespeare          

d. John Milton

6.      The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy which was derived from the tale of which character in The Canterbury Tales?

a.  The Wife of Bath’s Tale     

b. The Miller’s Tale

c.  The Knight’s Tale   

d. The Manciple’s Tale

7.      In The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims are going to Canterbury to receive the blessings of  :

a.  St. Augustine 

b. St. Thomas Becket       

c. St. Julian                

d. St. Stephen

8.      Match the following lines from The Canterbury Tales  to the character :

           i. ‘He was as fressh as is the month of may’                    -      (a) The Franklin

          ii. ‘amor vincit omnia’                                                          -      (b) The Squire

          iii. ‘Is likned til a fissh that is waterlees’                            -      (c) The Parson

          iv. ‘Seint julian he was in his contree’                                -       (d) The Prioress

          v. ‘That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?’                           -      (e) The Monk

a.  (i)-b, (ii)-e, (iii)-d, (iv)-c, (v)-a             

b. (i)-e, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c, (v)-b

c.  (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-e, (v)-a     

d. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-e, (iv)-a, (v)-c

9.      Match the following characters form The Canterbury Tales suitably :

                 i.          The Prioress                                            -             (a) Maudelayne

                ii.          The Friar                                                  -             (b) Madame Eglantine

               iii.          The Shipman                                          -              (c) Harry Bailey

               iv.          The Host                                                  -              (d) Hubert

a.  (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c           

b. (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c

c.  (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a            

d. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a

10.   The allegorical narrative poem ‘ Piers Plowman’ was written by :
                        a.  John Gower
                        b. William Langland
                        c. Geoffrey Chaucer
                        d. Pearl Poet

11.   ‘Confessio Amantis’ is a long poem by :
                        a. John Gower
                        b. William Langland
                        c. Geoffrey Chaucer
                        d. Pearl Poet

12.   Who is considered as the first English translator of Aesop’s Fables?
                        a.  Thomas Kyd
                        b. Daniel Defoe
                        c. Caxton
                        d. Marlowe

13.   Le Morte d' Arthur (The Death of Arthur) is written by :
                        a.  Thomas Kyd
                        b. Thomas Malory
                        c. Caxton
                        d. Marlowe

14.   Which of the following is true?
                        a.     Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain
                        b.     Iamb is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.
                        c.     A tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet
                        d.    All of them

15.   How many alphabets does the Thomas More’s Utopian have?
                        a.  20
                        b. 21
                        c. 22
                        d. 24

16.   The traveler Raphael Hythlodaeus came in which of the following work?
                        a.  Utopia
                        b. Piers Plowman
                        c. The Canterbury Tales
                        d. The Death of Arthur

17.   Which one is true about Thomas More’s Utopia?
                        a.  Is a fiction and political satire
                        b. Is a frame narrative
                        c.  The capital city of Utopia is Amaurot
                        d. All of them

18.   How many cities are there in the Island ‘Utopia’?
                       a. 20
                       b. 50
                       c. 54
                       d. 48

19.   Who is the first person to introduce printing press into England?
                      a.  Thomas Kyd
                      b. Daniel Defoe
                      c. Caxton
                      d. Marlowe

20.   England’s first printing press was set up in the almonry of the Westminster Abbey Church. Which was the first book printed from there?
                      a. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
                      b. Ovid’s Metamorphoses
                      c.  Le Morte d’Arthur
                      d. Golden Legend

21.   Which was the original title of Le Morte d’Arthur?
                      a.      King Arthur : The Ill-Framed Knight
                      b.      The Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round Table
                      c.      The Death of King Arthur and the Knights
                      d.      The Battle of King Arthur and the Noble Knights

22.   Which among the following is true about Thomas More’s fictional island ‘Utopia’?
                     a.      Slavery is a feature of Utopian life and it is reported that every household has two slaves.
                      b.      Euthanasia is permissible in the Utopian state.
                      c.      Both married priests and female priests are allowed in the island.
                      d.      All of them

23.   Who introduced sonnet in to English literature?
                      a.  Caxton
                      b. Malory
                      c. Thomas Wyatt
                      d. Spenser

24.   The first English poet to publish blank verse :
                      a.  Caxton
                      b. Malory
                      c. Thomas Wyatt
                      d. Surrey

25.   Philip Sidney’s ‘Astrophil and Stella’ is a :
                      a.  Novel
                      b. Sonnet Sequence
                      c. Play
                      d. Prose

26.   ‘The Faerie Queene’ is an epic poem by :
                      a.  Spenser
                      b. Wyatt
                      c. Surrey
                      d. Sidney

27.   In his poem ‘The Faerie Queene’ the poet praises which queen?
                      a.  Elizabeth I
                      b. Mary I
                      c. Mary II
                      d. Anne

28.   What is the rhyme scheme of Spenserian Stanza?
                   a. ABABBCBCC
                   b. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
                   c. ABABBCBCCDCDEE
                   d. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

29.   What is the rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnet?
                  a. ABABBCBCC
                  b. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
                  c. ABABBCBCCDCDEE
                  d. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

30.   Spenser published his poetic work 'The Shepheardes Calender' under the pseudonym :
                 a.  Bellay
                 b. Immerito
                 c. Petrarch
                 d. Bynneman

31.   Which of the following is Spenser’s marriage song written on the occasion of the marriage of the twins - Elizabeth Somerset and Katherine Somerset?
                  a.  The Faerie Queene
                  b. Prothalamion
                  c. Epithalmion
                  d. Amoretti

32.   “Calm was the day and through the trembling air
  The sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play” – is from :
                  a.   The Faerie Queene
                  b. Prothalamion
                  c. Epithalmion
                  d. Amoretti

33.   Which of the following is Spenser’s poem written on the occasion of his own marriage?
                   a.   The Faerie Queene
                   b. Prothalamion
                   c. Epithalmion
                   d. Amoretti

34.   Who created the Shakespearean sonnet (English sonnet) form by modifying the Petrarchan sonnet?
                 a.   Spenser
                 b. Shakespeare
                 c. Surrey
                 d. Sidney

35.   Tottel’s Miscellany mostly contains the works of :
                 a.  Spenser and Sidney
                 b. Henry Howard and Thomas Wyatt
                 c.  Surrey and Sidney
                 d. Spenser and Wyatt

36.   Tottel’s Miscellany was published in :
                 a.  1557
                 b. 1598
                 c. 1621
                 d. 1710

37.   Tottel’s Miscellany is otherwise called :
                 a.  Songs of life
                 b. Songes and Sonettes
                 c. Sonettes of Love
                 d. Songs of Love

38.   How many poems were there in the Tottel’s Miscellany?
                a.  97
                b. 128
                c. 271
                d. 108

39.   Who called Spenser ‘the poet’s poet’?
               a.  Charles Lamb
               b. John Milton
               c. William Blake
               d. Wordsworth

40.   “Our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than  Scotus or Aquinas” is the words of :
               a.  Charles Lamb
               b. John Milton
               c. William Blake
               d. Wordsworth

41.   Who compared Spenser to "a mistress, whose faults we see, but love her with them all"?
               a.  Charles Lamb
               b. John Milton
               c. William Blake
               d. Alexander Pope

42.   "Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song." – This line is from which poem?
               a.  The Faerie Queene
               b. Prothalamion
               c. Epithalmion
               d. Amoretti

43.   Which one of the following is an unfinished work of Edmund Spenser?
                a.  Astrophel
                b. Amoretti
                c. The Faerie Queen
                d. The Shepheardes Calender

44.   What was the title of the prose pamphlet Edmund Spenser wrote in the year 1596?
                 a.  Visions of the worlds vanitie
                 b. The Visions of Petrarch
                 c. The Ruines of Time
                 d. A View of the Present State of Ireland

45.   How many books were originally planned to form the work The Faerie Queene?
                 a.  23
                 b. 12
                 c. 8        
                 d. 18     

46.   To whom did Edmund Spenser addresses his sonnet sequence Amoretti?
                a.  Elizabeth Boyle     
                b. Mary Jane 
                c. Lisa Boyle
                d. Queen Elizabeth

47.   To whom did Edmund Spenser dedicate his work The Shepheardes Calender?
                a.  Philip Sidney
                b. Boyle
                c. Chaucer  
                d. Queen Elizabeth

48.   Which one is Philip Sydney’s work?
                a.  An Apology for Poetry
                b. The School of Abuse
                c. A Defence of Poetry
                d. On Poesy or Art

49.   The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia is a work of :
                a.  Spenser
                b. Shakespeare
                c. Surrey   
                d. Sidney

50.   The Lady of May is a work of :
                a.  Spenser  
                b. Shakespeare     
                c. Surrey   
                d. Sidney