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UNIT-II –Poems
CHAUCER -Questions

1. Who called Chaucer “The Father of English Poetry”?

A) Sidney B) Spenser
C) Amold D) Johnson

2. Which of the following is the work of Chaucer?

A) Pamela B) Clarrisa Harlowe
C) Prologue to Canterbury Tales D) Sir Charles Grandison

3. Among the following who is not primarily a playwright?

A) Marlow B) Webster
C) Dekker D) Chaucer

4. The pilgrims in ‘The Canterbury Tales’ met at

A) Coffee Houses B) Theatre
C) Tabard inn D) Cathdral

5. How many pilgrims set out on pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at
Canterbury?
A) 27 B) 28
C) 29 D) 30

6. In chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims are on their way to the
shrine of ...........
A) Samuel Becket B) St. Jerome
C) Thomas Becket D) St. Luke

7. --------- was not a poet during the Middle English Period

A) Thomas Malory B) Philip Sidney
C) William Langland D) Geoffrey Chaucer

8. In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two characters are examples
of deep Christian goodness?
I. the Summoner II. the Parson
III. the Ploughman IV. the Pardoner
The right combination according to the code is
A) I and II B) II and IV C) II and III D) I and IV

9. From among the Canterbury pilgrims, which group would qualify as the 'upper class'?
A) The Pardoner, The Miller, The Nun's Priest
B) Franklin, Parson, Wife of Bath
C) The Knight, The Squire, The Prioress
D) The Reeve, TheManciple, The Clerk

10. Which Canterbury pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with the Latin words meaning
"Love Conquers All"?
A) The Prioress B) The Monk
C) The Wife of Bath D) The Squire
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11. The rising chivalry of Chaucer’s time is portrayed in the character -------.
A) Knight B) Yeoman C) Squire D) The Man of
Law

12. One of the following Canterbury Tales is in prose, identify.

A) The Pardoner’s Tale B) The Parson’s Tale
C) The Monk’s Tale D) The Knight’s Tale

13. Two of the stories in The Canterbury Tales are in prose. They are
A) Melibeus Tale and The Parson’s Tale
B) Second Nun’s Tale and Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
C) Manciple’s Tale and Parson’s Tale
D) Nun’s Priest Tale and Monk’s Tale.

14. Chaucer satirizes the Monk because the Monk :

A) is too concerned with courtesy and matters of etiquette
B) cheats the poor peasants by selling them false religious relics
C) courtsfavour of wealthy people but spends no time with poor people
D) spends too much time hunting and too little time on religious duty

15. “Out of the gosple he thowordescaughte

And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shalirendo ?”
In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a man :
1. who loved money 2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
3. who practiced what he preached 4. who was a poor but honest clerk
Find the correct combination according to the code :
A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

16. What is the moral of "The Nun's Priest's Tale"?

A) Slow and steady wins the race B) Greed is the root of all evil
C) Beauty lies within D)Never trust a flatterer

17. In medieval England a ______________ was understood to be trained craftsman,

one who worked under a master who owned the business.
A)pardoner B)summoner C) journeyman D)manciple

18. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?
A) The Knight’s Tale B) The Monk’s Tale
C) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale D) The Miller’s Tale

19. The Wife of Bath’s philosophy of marriage shows that she

A) Is a strong person with keen awareness of her own rights?
B) Tends to say one thing and do the opposite.
C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong.
D) Trusts thought too much instead of feeling.

20. Who deals with “Wife of Bath”?

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A) Spenser B) Sidney
C) Donne D) Chaucer

21. Wife of Bath is a character in

A) The prologue to Canterbury tales B) The Shepherd’s Calendar
C) The Spanish Tragedy D) Hero and Leander

22. The wife of Bath besides countless lovers has married ………………. husbands.
A) Two B) Six
C) Four D) Five

23. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is
A) ten-syllabicline B) eight-syllabicline
C) rhyme royal D) ottavarima

24. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of Bathin The
Canterbury Tales?
A) Meekness B) Defiance C) Chastity D) Experience

25. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?
A) “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.
D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-
tellers in this work.

26. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a “noble pillar of order”, he is using
A) Irony B) Simile
C) Understatement D) Personification

27. She was a worthy woman al hirlyve,

Housbondes at chirche-dore she haddefyve,
In the ‘Prologue’ Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as:
I. crude and vulgar
II. outspoken and boastfully licentious
III. a witness to masculine oppression
IV. bubbling with vitality
Find the correct combination according to the code:
A) I, II and III are correct. B) I, II and IV are correct.
C) I, III and IV are correct. D) II, III and IV are correct.

28. How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living?

A) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhoodottery
B) By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
C) By pardoning those who stole property or committed other crimes
D) By assisting the Friar in Church services

29. In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of
which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or "estates". What are three
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estates?
A) Nobility, church and commoners B) Royalty, nobility and peasantry
C) Royalists, republicans and peasants D) Country, city and commons

30. The seven deadly sins are sought to be portrayed in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,
Which of the following sins is not covered by Chaucer?
I. Jealousy II. Envy III. Lust IV. Homicide
The right combination according to the code is :
A) I and II B) I and III C) I and IV D) III and IV

31. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Chaucer describes ‘Madame Eglentyne’ thus: ‘She was so charitable
and so pitous, She woldewepe, if that she sawe a mous caught in atrappe’
Reason (R): On her ‘broche of gold full shene’ was written Amor Vincit Omnia.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?
A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
B) Both (A) and (R) are true but(R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

32. One of the most flexible metres, --------- is a five foot line. It was introduced by
Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century and has since then become the
commonest of metres in English poetry.
A. Iambic B. Pentameter C. Trochaic D. Hexameter

33. Who among the following are referred to as the "Scottish Chaucerians"?
(i) Thomas Hoccleve (ii) Robert Henryson
(iii) John lydgate (iv) William Dunbar
The right combination according to the code is:
Code:
A. (ii) and (iii) B. (iii) and (iv) C. (i) and (ii) D. (ii) and (iv)

34. The seven deadly sins are sought to be portrayed in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,
Which of the following sins is not covered by Chaucer?
I. Jealousy II. Envy III. Lust IV. Homicide
The right combination according to the code is :
A) I and II B) I and III C) I and IV D) III and IV

35. Which of the following is true of The Canterbury Tales ?

A) Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates Sir Thopas’ Tale only.
B) Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates The Tale of Melibee only.
C) Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates both Sir Thopas’ Tale and The Tale of
Melibee.
D) Chaucer, the pilgrim does attempt to narrate an unnamed tale but
abruptly stops due to the intervention of the other pilgrims.

36. One of the less noticed and acknowledged distinction of The Canterbury Tales is That
A. instead of revealing England's divisions, it revelled in its diversity.
B. it alerted us to the term auctor, someone who is both 'an originator, or one who
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gives increase', the best description for Chaucer himself.

C. it upheld the idea that we cannot divorce poetry from knowledge because poetry
itself is an object of knowledge.
D. it married domesticity to divinity, the baker's loaf with the bread of life.

37. In Canterbury Tales who has a red face full of sores ?

A) the Summoner B) the Shipman
C) the Yeoman D) the Reeve

38. In Chaucer’s ‘Prologue to Canterbury Tales’ the shipman is the owner of a vessel
called
A) Madelaine B) Victoria
C) Baltic D) Princess

39. The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales gives an account of the journey of the
pilgrims under the guidance of ---------
A) John Gower B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) Harry Bailly D) Nicholas Trivet

40. In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two characters are examples
of deep Christian goodness?
I. the Summoner II. the Parson
III. the Ploughman IV. the Pardoner
The right combination according to the code is
A) I and II B) II and IV C) II and III D) I and IV

41. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy?

A) The Canterbury Tales B) The Book of the Duchess
C) The House of Fame D) Legend of Good Women

42. Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles is in part

(I) a puzzle (II) a debate
(III) a threnody (IV) a beast fable
The correct combination for the above statement, according to the code, is
A) I, II &IV B) II, III & IV C) I & IV D) II & IV

43. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?
A) Troilus and Criseyde B) The House of Fame
C) The Book of Duchess D) The Legend of Good Women

44. Chaucer's first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of
_______
A) Duchess of Malfi B) Duchess of Lancaster
C) Duchess of Scotland D) Duchess of Paris

45. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.
B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.
C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-
Norman and Latin.
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D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

46. How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of
Good Women?
A) Six B) Seven C) Eight D) Nine

47. In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue the phrase written on
the Prioress’ brooch is --------
A) Amor Scleratus Habendi B) Vincit Omnia Amor
C) Amor Vincit Omnia D) Amor Tussique Non Celantur

48. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets begins with an account of the life of:
A) Chaucer B) John Dryden
C) Cowley D) Shakespeare