1. Why did the rebels
of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
a) Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
b) The common people were still essentially pagan.
c) They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a
form of black magic.
d) The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.
e) a and c only
2. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the
afterlife?
a) Dante's Divine Comedy
b) Boccaccio's Decameron
c) The Dream of the Rood
d) Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
e) Gower's Confessio Amantis
3. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
a) Sir Thomas Malory
b) Margery Kempe
c) Geoffrey Chaucer
d) William Langland
e) Geoffrey of Monmouth
4. What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?
a) the Battle of Agincourt
b) the Battle of Hastings
c) the Norman Conquest
d) the Black Death
e) the War of the Roses
5. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices
and virtues?
a) the short story
b) the heroic epic
c) the morality play
d) the romance
e) the limerick
6. Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true?
a) She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
b) She was a virgin martyr.
c) She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
d) She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.
e) She probably never met Margery Kempe.
7. Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it
is personified in Sir Lancelot?
a) Julian of Norwich
b) Margery Kempe
c) William Langland
d) Sir Thomas Malory
e) Geoffrey Chaucer
8.what was the
occupation of Chaucer's father?
a. leather merchant
b.civil servant
c. a vintner
9. Chaucer became a page to which king's daughter-in-law?
a. Edward III
b. Richard II
c. Henry IV
10. which of these is not certain about Chaucer?
a. his birth date
b. his death year
c. his father's name
11. which of these kings was not served by Chaucer?
a. Edward III
b. Henry II
c. Richard II
12.what was the duration of hundred year's war?
a.1300 to 1350
b.1337 to 1453
c. 1302 to 1343
13.what did Chaucer's wife use to do?
a. lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut
b. nurse of royal court
c. governess to Henry IV
14.one of Chaucer's daughter was............?
a. a musician
b. an astronomer
c. a nun
15. in which year Chaucer was imprisoned by the French?
a. 1360
b. 1357
c. 1378
16. Chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for..............?
a. beating a friar in a London street
b. for writing poetry against the church
c. for crossing the border of Great Britain
17. Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces,which of these was not in his
charge?
a. Westminster Palace
b. Tower of London
c. St. George's chapel at Windsor
d. Buckingham Palace
18. Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during.............?
a. 1374 to 1385
b. 1350 to 1360
c. 1360 to 1400
19. Chaucer was released from legal action by ........................ in a
deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction?
a. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
b. Philippa de Roet of Flanders
c. Agnes de Copton
20. Chaucer became a member of Parliament in...........?
a. 1386
b. 1300
c. 1343
21. Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as.........?
a. Chaucer's corner
b. poet's corner
c. legend's corner
22. what was chaucer's profession?
a. a poet
b. a merchant
c. a civil servant
23) One of Marlowe's earliest published works was his translation of the
epic poem 'Pharsalia', written by which Roman poet?
a)Ovid
b)Lucan
c)Virgil
d)Horace
24) Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' begins
with the line "Come live with me and be my love"; which other English
author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line?
a)William Shakespeare
b)Thomas Kyd
c)John Dryden
d)John Donne
25)In Marlowe's play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta?
a)Lazarus
b)Solomon
c)Barabas
d)Shylock
26 How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil?
a)16
b)20
c)24
d)28
27) Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe?
a)Henry V
b)Richard III
c)Edward II
d)John
28)One of Marlowe's most famous poems was an account of which lovers?
a)Anthony and Cleopatra
b)Hero and Leander
c)Troilus and Cressida
d)Apollo and Hyacinth
29) Marlowe's play 'Tamburlaine the Great' was based loosely on
the life of which Asian ruler?
a)Zhu Yuanzhang
b)Genghis Khan
c)Timur
d)Kublai Khan
30)What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events
surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?
a)The Massacre at Berlin
b)The Massacre at Rome
c)The Massacre at Copenhagen
d)The Massacre at Paris
