NET/SET/JRF Practice questions on Geoffrey Chaucer

 NET/SET/JRF 20/20

Practice Questions on Geoffrey Chaucer

    1. Palaman and Arcite are the characters appear in the _____ tale

        a)  squire  b) monk  c) knight d) prioress

    2. How many stories are there in The Canterbury Tales?

        a) 28  b) 24  c) 27  d) 22

    3. Troilus and Criseyde is a/an _____

        b)  ballad  c) lyric  c) epic  d) sonnet

    4. Rhyme Royal consists of _____ lines

        a) nine  b) eight  c) seven  d) eleven

    5. In Troilus and Criseyde and Parliament of Foules, Chaucer used _____

        a) blank verse  b) rhyme royal  c) 10 line stanza  d) farce

    6. _____ dialect Chaucer used during his literary period 

        a) Northern b) East-midlands c) West-Midlands d) South-Eastern

    7. What did Chaucer see in his dream in The House of Fame?

        a) a glass with wine  b) a donkey  c) a temple made of glass  d) a man without eyes

    8. Parliament of Foules begins with the narrator who reads _____

        a) Aristotle's Poetics   b) Plato's Republic  c) Cicero's Somnium Scipionis  d) Quintilian's Institutio             Oratoria

    9. _____ is considered as the first novel of Chaucer

        a) The Book of the Duchess  b) The House of Fame  c) The Legend of Good Woman  d) Troilus                 and Criseyde

10. The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales meet in _____ in London

    a) Dove Street  b) Tabard Inn  c) New Street  d) Paradise Inn

11. Where did the Knight in The Canterbury Tales visit?

    a) India  b) Germany  c) Algeria  d) America

12. Identify the character who has a "forked beard, dressed in motley and sitting high on his horse"         in The Canterbury Tales.

    a) the monk  b) the friar  b) the merchant  d) the goldsmith

13. One of the following writers is mentioned in the Clerk's Tale. Identify it.

       a) Plato  b) Johnson  c) Aristotle  c) Cicero  d) Quintilian

14. Who says the following line "if the gold rusts what can iron do" in The Canterbury Tales?

        a) the clerk  b) the doctor of physic  c) the parson  d) the goldsmith

15. _____ tells the Tale of Melibus in The Canterbury Tales

    a) Chaucer  b) The Wife of Bath  c) The Friar  d) The Nun

16. Chaucer has first used 'heroic couplet' in his ____

    a) The House of Fame  b) The Book of the Duchess  c) The Parliament of Fouls  d) The Legend of            Good Women

17/ _____ is considered as the 'magnum opus' of Chaucer

    a) The Book of the Duchess  b) The Canterbury Tales  c) The Legend of Good Women  d) The House         of Fame

18. How many women characters are described in The Legend of Good Women?

      a) 8  b) 12  c) 10  d) 6

19. Chaucer has used _____ in his The Legend of Good Women

       a) the rhyme royal  b) the heroic couplet  c) the octave  d) dream vision

20. To whom did Chaucer compose A Treatise on the Astrolabe?

        a) son  b) mother  c) wife  d) daughter