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CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE
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1The Book of the Duchess by Chaucer is a
- Alengthy allegory on the death of his patron's wife
- Ba short lyrical story of the Duchess of Wales
2Which work of Chaucer bears a close resemblance to Dante's Divine Comedy
- AThe House of Fame
- BThe Parliament of Fowls
3Which of the following contains passages directly taken from Chaucer
- AThe Parliament of Fowls
- BThe Canterbury Tales
4Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer and Pindorous reveal maturity of Chaucer's narrative skills and his dexterity in handling the
- AHeoric Couplet
- BRhyma Royal
5The very idea of The Canterbury Tales is believed to have been taken from Boccacco's
- AFilostrato
- BRecamerone
6Which of the following is considered to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet
- ATroilus and Criseyded
- BThe Legend of Good Woemn
7Who said., "Chaucer found English a dialect and left it a language"
- ALowes
- BHadow
8Hudson has rightly said that under the influence of Chaucer in English poetry, the rhyme gradually displaced
- Afree verse
- Balliteration
9Chaucer used ottava rhyma, the eight syllabic line rhyming in couplets in
- AThe Book of the Duchess
- BThe Canterbury Tales
10In Prologue and Canterbury Tales Chaucer used
- AHeroic Couplet
- BOttava Rhyma
11The Rhyma Royal which Chaucer used in Troilus and Criseyde is arranged in stanzas consisting ten syllabic lines and having
- ASeven lines in each stanza
- BTen lines in each stanza
12In the Prologue to the Canerbury Tales the fading chivlary of the Middle ages was represented by the aged Knight while the budding chivlary of the Chaucherean Times was represented by
- AThe Frair
- BThe Squire
13Chaucher's physician in the Doctor of Physique was heavily dependent on
- Amodern science
- Bastrology
14Chaucer has been criticized for presenting an incomplete picture of his times because
- Ahe neglected the sufferings of the poor
- Bhe overemphasized the rights of the lower class
15Who has been called the Morning Star of the Renaissance?
- ASpencer
- BChaucer
16Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a story of
- A24 pilgrims
- B29 pilgrims
17Who has been called by Spenser as "The Well of the English Undefiled"
- ALangland
- BChaucer
18Chaucer introduced Heroic Couplet in English verse and invented the
- AOttava Rhyma
- BRhyma Royal
19One of the main drawbacks of Troilus and Criseyde is
- Acomplex characters
- Blong and tiresome speeches
20The character of Criseyde is
- Aa psychological study of a complex woman
- Ba true representative of typical medieval woman
21Pandorus is a/an
- Aobnoxious rouge
- Bcomic character
22The vision of William Concerning Piers, the plowman is the only extant poem of
- AJohn Gower
- BW. Langland
23The poet known entirely for Bruce, the supreme national poem of Scotland is
- AJohn Barbour
- BJohn Cycliffe
24The poet known entirely for Bruce, the supreme national poem of Scotland is
- AJohn Barbour
- BJohn Cycliffe
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