English Literature - Questions & Answers for Competitive Exams | GkSeries

1. Which dialect became Standard english?

• [A] The Northern
• [B] East Midland
• [C] West Midland
• [D] The Southern

Answer: Option [B]

2. The Black Death is also called ________.

• [A] the great plague
• [B] the great flood
• [C] the great droughtli>
• [D] the great revolt

Answer: Option [A]

3. The Book of Duchess by Chaucer is a _______

• [A] Allegory
• [B] Lyrical Story
• [C] Narrative
• [D] None of the above

Answer: Option [A]

4. Troilus and criseydle by Chaucer shows great influence of filostrato by ________.

• [A] Dante
• [B] De L.rries
• [C] De Meung
• [D] Boccaccio

Answer: Option [D]

5. The very idea of the the Canterbury tales is belived to have been taken from Boccaccio's

• [A] Recameron
• [B] Filostarto
• [C] Confessio Amentis.
• [D] None of the above

Answer: Option [A]

6. Who remarked that Chaucer's found English a dialect and left it a language"?

• [A] Legouis
• [B] Hadow
• [C] Lang
• [D] Lowers

Answer: Option [D]

7. Chaucer used octave rhyme of the eight syllabic line rhyming in couplets in ___________.

• [A] The prologue
• [B] The Canterbury Tales
• [C] The Book of the Duchess
• [D] None of the above

Answer: Option [C]

8. In Prologue and Canterbury Tales Chaucer employed the __________.

• [A] Ottava Rhyme
• [B] Rhyme Royal
• [C] Heroic Couplet
• [D] None of the above

Answer: Option [C]

9. Chaucer's Physician in the Doctor of Physique was heavily dependent upon __________.

• [A] Church
• [B] Astrology
• [C] Modern Science
• [D] None of the above

Answer: Option [B]

10. Who among the following has been called The Morning Star of Renaissance?

• [A] Shakespeare
• [B] Spenser
• [C] Chaucer
• [D] Marlowe

Answer: Option [C]

11. The Character of Criseyde is _____________.

• [A] a superficial portrait of a haughty woman
• [B] a physiological study of a complex woman
• [C] The true representative of a typical medieval woman
• [D] The true representative of a typical medieval woman

Answer: Option [B]

12. In the Canterbury Tales the fictional inn where the pilgrims meet is ___________.

• [A] Canterbury
• [B] Tabard
• [C] Wessex Hall
• [D] None of the above

Answer: Option [B]