1. Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?

 To meet King Henry III

 To see a medieval mystery play

 To worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket
 Because they are tourists

2. What does the Squire wear?

 A velvet doublet and hose
 Cloth embroidered with flowers
 Green and peacock-blue hunting gear

 A beaver hat

3. Who marries Emelye in the Knight’s Tale?

 Theseus

 Arcite

 Saturn
 Palamon

4. According to the Wife of Bath, what do women most desire?

 Sovereignty over their husbands

 True love

 Perfect beauty

 Great wealth

5. What does Chanticleer dream?

 That he will be killed by a wolf

 That Pertelote will desert him

 That he will be taken away by an orange, houndlike creature
 That his friend will be murdered
6. Who are the three men searching for in the Pardoner’s Tale?
 The Wandering Jew

 Greed

 Jesus Christ
 Death

7. Who is branded by a red-hot poker in the Miller’s Tale?

 Absolon

 Alisoun
 Nicholas
 John

8. Which of the following tales is a fabliau?

 The Knight’s Tale

 The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

 The Wife of Bath’s Tale

 The Miller’s Tale

9. Which pilgrim has a forked beard?

 The Summoner
 The Merchant
 The Reeve

 The Physician

10. What is the moral of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?

 Slow and easy wins the race.

 Greed is the root of all evil.

 Beauty lies within.

 Never trust a flatterer.
11. What is the Wife of Bath’s Prologue about?

 Her life with her five different husbands

 Ovid’s Metamorphoses

 How women deserve to hold high public offices just like men

 A philosophical treatise on the astrolabe

12. When does The Canterbury Tales take place?

 In the Renaissance

 In pre-Christian Britain

 During the Norman invasion

 In the late fourteenth century

13. For which social classes did Chaucer write?

 The nobility
 All levels of society
 Illiterate peasants

 Merchants

14. What was Chaucer’s profession?

 Poet

 Noble

 Merchant
 Civil servant

15. How many Canterbury Tales are there?

 80
 24
 16
  50

16. What is a romance?

 An erotic tale of love and passion

 A story about Romans

 A story of knights, ladies, quests, and love
 A cheap book you buy from a drugstore

17. Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval sermon?

 The Wife of Bath’s Tale

 The Tale of Melibee

 The Physician’s Tale

 The Pardoner’s Tale

18. Which pilgrims are most richly attired?

 Miller, Yeoman, Summoner, Chaucer
 Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician, Franklin
 Knight, Nun’s Priest, Parson, Pardoner

 Friar, Reeve, Manciple, Man of Law

19. Which tales take place in the Orient?

 The Wife of Bath’s Tale and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale

 The Prioress’s Tale and the Knight’s Tale

 The Man of Law’s Tale and the Squire’s Tale
 The Miller’s Tale and the Clerk’s Tale

20. Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning
“Love Conquers All”?

 The Prioress
 The Wife of Bath
  The Monk

 The Squire

21. At what time of year does the pilgrimage take place?

 In the dead of winter
 In the height of spring
 “That time of year when yellow leaves . . . hang upon these boughs”

 On a midsummer night

22. Which characters are connected to the Church?

 The Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the Summoner, and the Pardoner
 The Miller, the Ploughman, and the Reeve

 The Knight, the Manciple, and the Host

 The Canon’s Yeoman, the Physician, the Clerk, and the Man of Law

23. Which tale is about a talking falcon?

 The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

 The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale

 The Franklin’s Tale

 The Squire’s Tale

24. Which tales are about the patient suffering of women?

 The Wife of Bath’s Tale and the Prioress’s Tale

 The Knight’s Tale, the Cook’s Tale, and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
 The Man of Law’s Tale, the Clerk’s Tale, and the Physician’s Tale
 The Tale of Melibee, the Parson’s Tale, and the Friar’s Tale

25. Why does the Pardoner upset the Host?

  The Pardoner is homosexual.
 The Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the pilgrims, after he has already told
them that he cheats people.
 The Pardoner has physically attacked the Host with his heavy bag of
relics.
 The Pardoner refuses to give the Ho

In what season are the pilgrims traveling?

 Fall
 Winter
 Spring
 Summer

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Why are the travelers going to Canterbury?

 They are on a pilgrimage to visit the healing waters of Aquinas.
 They are on a pilgrimage to see the relics of St. Thomas Becket.
 They are on a pilgrimage to see King Thomas Becket.
 They are on a pilgrimage to visit the great Shakespearean theater of
Canterbury.

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Who shows up at the same inn as the narrator?

 29 other pilgrims
 20 other pilgrims
 15 other other pilgrims, a fox, a rooster, and a pack of hens
 The Host

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What does the narrator want from the other travelers?

 He wants them to tell him stories.
 He wants them keep it down so he can get some sleep.
 He wants them to pay him to be their guide to Canterbury.
 He wants to join them.

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Which travelers does the narrator want to describe?

 The men
 All 29 of his companions
 The slave, the princess, and the charioteer
 Just the ones who tell the best stories
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Who acts the most nobly and virtuously?

 The Squire
 The Monk
 The Prioress
 The Knight

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Who is the Knight's son?

 The Monk
 The Host
 The Squire
 The Friar

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What is the Prioress devoted to?

 Dirty talk and lascivious behavior
 Courtly behavior and courtly love
 Writing poetry and playing the lute
 Her collection of jewelry

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Why is the Monk not very monk-like?

 He acts like a lord and enjoys horses and hunting.
 He swears a lot.
 He misquotes many of the prayers
 He likes to talk about astrology.

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What does the Friar easily get people to do?

 Learn how to read and write
 Give him money, food, and drink
 Go hunting with him
 Live virtuously

What does the Physician base his medical knowledge on?

 What he learned from a medicine man in India
 Astronomy and the prevailing theory of the four humors
 His extensive field work in herbal remedies
 His six years of medical degree work done at Oxford

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Who has been married five times?
 The Prioress and the Wife of Bath
 The Wife of Bath
 The Parson
 The Manciple

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Which are the only two characters who seem to truly uphold Christian ideals?
 The Miller and the Cook
 The Summoner and the Pardoner
 The Narrator and the Host
 The Parson and the Plowman

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What does the corrupt and lecherous Summoner do when he gets drunk?
 He gets up on the tables and does a striptease.
 He provokes fist fights with passersby and often winds up in jail.
 He repeats the few words of Latin he knows over and over like a parrot.
 His voice sounds like a goat.

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Why is the Summoner hated by the Church and church-goers?

 Because he is too righteous and exacting in his morals and ethics
 Because he makes counterfeit pardons and cheats people of their money
 Because he's painfully shy and incredibly awkward for parishioners to talk
to
 Because he often espoused pagan beliefs and praises other religions

What does the narrator apologize for?

 Accidentally injuring the Prioress
 Being long-winded and ineloquent
 Telling the ugly truth about what the travelers said and did
 Wasting everyone's time

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Who welcomes the travelers to the inn?

 The Hostess
 The Host
 The narrator's wife
 The Cook

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What does the Host propose to the group?

  That they all sleep in the barn where it is warm and they can see the stars
 That they stay a few extra days at the Inn and have a story-telling contest
 That they promise to return to the Inn after their trip to Canterbury and
recount their adventures
 That they have a story telling contest on the way to Canterbury

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Who will determine whose story is best?

 The Host
 The narrator
 The Judge
 The Poet

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What's the price for disagreeing with the Host along the way?
 That person has to travel alone for the rest of the way
 That person has to pay everyone's expenses
 The Host will beat him/her
 That person will have to ride a donkey for the rest of the way

Why does Theseus imprison the Theban soldiers Arcite and Palamon?
 Because they survived Theseus's battle against them
 Because they betrayed Theseus during battle
 Because they were mercenaries who tried to kill Theseus
 Because they were caught stealing

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What do the cousins fight over?

 Who gets to sleep closer to the prison tower window
 Who can shoot an arrow more accurately into the garden below
 How best to escape from prison
 A woman, Emelye, whom they see from the prison tower

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How do the Knights get freed?

 Palamon is pardoned, and Arcite escapes.
 Arcite is pardoned, and Palamon escapes.
 They knock out the guard, steal his keys, and run out of the castle.
 Emelye takes pity on them and lets them out one night.

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What does Arcite disguise himself as?

 A eunuch named Perotheus
  A court jester named Thebes
 A noble servant named Philostrate
 A soldier in Theseus's army

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What does Theseus decide to do when he catches Arcite and Palamon fighting
in a field?
 Make the two fight to the death on the spot
 Hold a tournament in a year in which the winner gets to marry Emelye
 Hold a tournament in a year in which Emelye will determine the winner and
marry him
 Make the two plead their case to Emelye and let her decide

What does Theseus build in preparation for the tournament?

 A great hall where the victory feast will be held
 A grand church where the winner and Emelye will wed
 A magnificent stadium with three temples to the gods
 A full scale replica of the Acropolis

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Whom does Emelye want to marry?

 She doesn't want to marry anyone but Diana tells her she must.
 She favors Palamon.
 She is deeply in love with Arcite, whom she saw looking at her from the
Tower window.
 She is deeply in love with a duke named Perotheus and plans to marry
him in secret before the tournament.

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Who wins the battle?

 Arcite
 Palamon
 They are both killed.
 It is a tie.

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What happens during the victory lap around the stadium?

 Palamon is struck by lightning.
 Emelye falls off a horse and is killed.
 Arcite falls off his horse and is fatally crushed.
 Palamon stabs Arcite in a fit of rage.

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After many years of grieving, what does Theseus suggest?

  That Emelye be sent to marry an Italian prince
 That Palamon and Emelye marry
 That Emelye take over as Queen of Athens
 That Palamon be executed

Who was Nicholas?

 A vain clergyman in love with Alisoun
 A poor student well-versed in astrology who was having an affair with Alisoun
 Nicholas is the name of Alisoun's husband, who is a carpenter.
 Alisoun's first husband

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Who was Alisoun's husband?

 John, the carpenter
 Nicholas
 Absalon, the parish clerk
 Alisoun is unmarried

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Who is the parish clerk, Absalon?

 A traveling holy man said to have healing powers
 A vain clergyman desperately in love with Alisoun
 A renowned church scholar
 A lady's man who has won Alisoun's heart

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Why does John build three tubs and attach them to the barn roof?
 Because Absalon has convinced Nicholas, John, and Alisoun that a
catastrophic flood is coming
 Alisoun and Nicholas trick him into preparing for a catastrophic flood so they
can have sex together.
 Because a catastrophic flood is coming
 John is a carpenter and an inventor and the three tubs are part of a levy
and lock system he has built.

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What does Absalon do as revenge for being tricked into kissing Alisoun's
butt?
 He kicks Nicholas's butt.
 He brands Nicholas's butt with a hot poker.
 He slaps Alisoun.

 He tells John about his wife's affair.

Why does the Wife of Bath consider herself an expert on marriage?
 Because she wrote a best-selling book on marriage
 Because she has been to the same man for 37 years
 Because she's had five husbands
 Because she is a virgin

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Which part of scripture does she use to justify her many marriages?
 The part that says to be fruitful and multiply
 Leviticus
 The part about Jesus only going once to a wedding
 The story of Sodom and Gommorah

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What does she think her great power is?

 Her use of rhetoric
 Her physical strength
 Her sexual power
 Her faerie powers

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Why were three of her husbands "good" husbands?

 Because they were kind, generous, and loved her
 Because they were old, rich, and submissive
 Because they let her take lovers
 Because they were young and exciting

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How did The Wife of Bath dominate her old husbands?

 By beating them with a poker
 By locking them out of the house when they didn't bring her presents
 By keeping them mildly sedated with valerian

 By withholding sex until they did what she wanted

What did her fourth husband do?

 He kept a lover, but one day died on a pilgrimage.
 Beat her or else ignored her
 He encouraged her work as a seamstress and bought her a store.
 He disappeared one day and after three years she got their marriage
annulled.

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What did The Wife of Bath's fifth husband do?
 Left her heavily in debt when he died
 Constantly bought her flowers and gifts and flattered her
 Ignored her and had affairs with other women
 Treated her horribly, beat her, and caused the deafness in one of her ears

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Which of her husbands did she marry for love?

 The fourth husband whom she married still young
 The horrible fifth husband
 The first three
 None of them

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How old were the Wife of Bath and Jankyn when they met?
 She was twenty and he was thirty.
 She was forty and he was twenty.
 She was forty and he was sixty.
 She was 35 and he was seventy one.

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What's the "book of wicked wives"?

 A book the Wife of Bath quotes about the most powerful women in history
 A book that St. Paul wrote about the way women should behave in marriage
 A book Jankyn liked to read to her about the most treacherous women in
history
 A funny book about women that the Host quotes from when the Wife of
Bath finishes her prologue

Why is Arthur's knight sentenced to death?

 For dishonorably winning a duel
 For raping a young woman
 For killing the Queen's brother
 For cheating at a game of cards

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What is the condition for the knight to live?

 He must return in a year with a rare flower guarded by a dragon.
 He must return in a year with 100 soldiers to fight in a tournament.
 He must return in a year with the correct answer to what women want.
 He must answer three questions correctly on the spot.

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What answer does the old hag give the knight on condition that he marries
her if it's right?
 Women want to be in charge of their significant others
 Women want what is forbidden them and run from what they can get
 Women want to be flattered and bought pretty things
 Women want to be taken care of

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Does the knight choose for the old woman to be ugly but loyal or young and
beautiful but unfaithful?
 He wants her to be young and beautiful.
 He wants her to be ugly but loyal.
 He wants her to a little bit of both.
 He lets her choose.

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What happens at the end?

 The old woman becomes young and beautiful and they live happily ever after.
 The old woman becomes young and runs off with a poor astrologer.
 The old woman turns out to be the Wife of Bath.
 The old woman decides the knight will never love her and leaves, and the
knight meets the love of his life the next day.

Why does the Pardoner falsely claim his relics have healing powers?
 So the common folk will worship him
 So that he will be promoted and allowed in the Pope's inner circle
 So parishioners will pay him money to be "cured"
 He doesn't know the claim is fake. He truly believes he is curing people.

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Whom do the three young rioters in the Pardoner's story want to kill and
why?
 A young thug who killed their friend
 A parish clerk named Absalon who lectures them on their drinking
 A chemist in town who secretly tried to poison all three of them
 Death, because he killed a friend of theirs

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What does the old man they meet tell them?

 That they can find death in a grove under an oak tree
 That there's gold under an oak tree in a grove
 That they will all die within a fortnight
 That they are destined for fame and fortune
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Why do they start plotting against each other?

 Because the old man starts telling them lies about each other
 Because each wants a greater share of the gold they find under the tree
 Because they begin to suspect one of them is going to steal all the gold
 Because one of them killed the old man

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When the youngest returns from town with wine how do all three men die?
 Two of them are stabbed and the third stabs himself.
 They all die of poisoned wine.
 The youngest is stabbed and the other two die from poisoned wine.
 The tree is hit by lightning and a giant limb crushes them.

What is Chanticleer's nightmare?

 He dreams he loses his singing voice.
 He dreams Pertelote won't have sex with him anymore.
 He dreams he injures his wings and can't fly.
 He dreams a large beast threatens to kill him.

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Who is Pertelote?
 Chanticleer's favorite hen-wife
 The fox
 The farmer's wife
 The cat

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How does the fox trick Chanticleer?

 He covers over a hole with leaves so when Chanticleer runs over it he falls
in.
 He kidnaps Pertelote and makes Chanitcleer trade himself to save her.
 He dresses up like one of Chanticleer's hen-wives and calls to him.
 He flatters Chanticleer and then grabs him when he's singing proudly.

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How does Chanticleer trick the fox and escape?

 He suggests the fox turn back to boast about his feat and then flies away
when the fox opens his mouth.
 He tells the fox there's a beautiful female fox and flies away when the fox is
distracted.
 He convinces the fox he can fly and manages to escape when the fox
breaks his leg jumping off the roof of the barn.
  He ties himself to the belly of a sheep, who then walks right out of the fox's
den where they are being held.

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What is the moral of the Nun's Priest's Tale?

 Practice makes perfect.
 Never trust a flatterer.
 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
 A stitch in time saves nine.

What is Chanticleer's nightmare?

 He dreams he loses his singing voice.
 He dreams Pertelote won't have sex with him anymore.
 He dreams he injures his wings and can't fly.
 He dreams a large beast threatens to kill him.

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Who is Pertelote?
 Chanticleer's favorite hen-wife
 The fox
 The farmer's wife
 The cat

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How does the fox trick Chanticleer?

 He covers over a hole with leaves so when Chanticleer runs over it he falls
in.
 He kidnaps Pertelote and makes Chanitcleer trade himself to save her.
 He dresses up like one of Chanticleer's hen-wives and calls to him.
 He flatters Chanticleer and then grabs him when he's singing proudly.

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How does Chanticleer trick the fox and escape?

 He suggests the fox turn back to boast about his feat and then flies away
when the fox opens his mouth.
 He tells the fox there's a beautiful female fox and flies away when the fox is
distracted.
 He convinces the fox he can fly and manages to escape when the fox
breaks his leg jumping off the roof of the barn.
 He ties himself to the belly of a sheep, who then walks right out of the fox's
den where they are being held.

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What is the moral of the Nun's Priest's Tale?

  Practice makes perfect.
 Never trust a flatterer.
 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
 A stitch in time saves nine.

Is Chaucer the narrator the same as Chaucer the author?

 Yes, they should be considered identical.
 No, the names are the same but one should not assume they are identical.

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Who is the leader of the group?

 The Knight
 The Host
 The Wife of Bath
 The narrator

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Who is Theseus?
 In the Knight's tale he's the duke of Athens.
 In the Pardoner's tale he's death.
 In the Wife of Bath's tale he's her fourth husband.
 In the Nun's Priests tale he's the fox.

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What do the Three Rioters in the Pardoner's Tale represent?

 Vices
 Virtues
 Ethics
 Senses

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Which character is loud and obnoxious and gives the Host a hard time?
 The Squire
 The Plowman
 The Yeoman

 The Miller

What combination of qualities makes the Knight so admirable?

 His love of ideals, impressive military career, and his gentle manner
 His eloquent speech, refined manners, and knowledge of military history
 His tallness, his thinness, and his nice clothes
 His probing intelligence, his intensity, and his sense of humor
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What kind of stories does the Knight like to hear?

 Rags to riches tales
 Moving love stories
 Comedies
 Battle and war stories

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What are the Church "pardons" or "papal indulgences" that people bought?
 Small gift bags issued by the Vatican
 Notes with the signature of the Pope absolving people of particular sins
 Copies of the New Testament autographed by the Pope
 Relics with special healing powers

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In addition to his religious fakery, what makes people suspicious of the

Pardoner?
 He has an ambiguous gender and might be a eunuch.
 He speaks too quietly and has secretive manners.
 He speaks with a foreign accent.
 He sips all day from a flask.

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What are the Wife of Bath's talents?

 She is a renowned chef and a gifted milliner.
 She is gifted at wrestling, juggling, and pie-baking.
 She is a renowned seamstress and a pro at netting husbands.
 She is a popular midwife and excellent nanny.

Which of the following best describe true love, according to the medieval
tradition of courtly love?
 Pagan, wild, and passionate
 Ideal, spiritual, tormenting, not physical, adulterous
 The ideal union between a man and his wife
 A sublime state experienced exclusively by princes and princesses

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What does the word "company" that Chaucer uses to describe the travelers
mean?
 To break bread together
 To travel together
 To tell stories to one another
 To sleep together
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Why are there so many portraits of corrupt Church officials in the Tales?
 Because Chaucer was zealously anti-Christian
 Because the Tales were re-written in the 17th century by a cabal of evil rabbis
 Because Chaucer was himself a monk and wrote about people he knew
 Because corruption in the Church was rampant in the Middle Ages.

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What does "fabliaux" mean?

 Having or showing the signs of a fever
 Denoting or relating to companies of travelers on pilgrimages
 Comical and grotesque stories where characters thrive by their wit.
 Curved like a sickle; hooked

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What's the significance of them traveling in springtime?

 They can pack lighter and travel quicker.
 It symbolizes renewal and fresh starts.
 It symbolizes Adam and Eve's fall from grace.
 They all suffer greatly during the trip from the allergies of a spring pollen
bloom.

1. What is the first Canterbury Tale?

THE KNIGHT'S TALE
2. 2Which tale in the first fragment seems to be unfinished?
THE COOK'S TALE
3. 3Which tale tells the story of Symkyn the miller?
THE REEVE'S TALE
4. 4Which characters are in love with Alison in the Miller's Tale?
JOHN, ABSOLON AND NICHOLAS
5. 5What is the name of the carpenter in the Miller's Tale?
JOHN
6. 6Who farts in Absolon's face?
GERVASE
NICHOLAS
ALISON
JOHN
7. 7Who cries out "Water" because their arse has been branded with
a hot iron?
 NICHOLAS
8. 8What is the genre of tales to which the Miller's Tale might
belong?
FABLIAUX
9. 9Which two characters are thought to be indistinguishable from
each other in the Knight's Tale?
ARCITE AND PALAMON
10. 11Who are Arcite and Palamon in love with?
EACH OTHER
EMELYE
11. 12How many husbands has the Wife of Bath had?
5
12. 13The Wife of Bath's first name is...

ALISON

SHE ISN'T GIVEN A FIRST NAME, JUST "THE WIFE"

13. 14The Wife of Bath's fifth husband is named...
JANKIN
14. 15The Wife of Bath suffers, a little, from which ailment...

DEAFNESS
15. 16What does the Wife use as a bargaining tool?
SEX
16. 17The Wife of Bath claims to hate...
CLERKS AND GLOSSING

17. 18In the General Prologue, which character is swathed in ten

pounds of cloth?
THE WIFE OF BATH
18. 19Which two characters are sometimes read as a homosexual
couple?
THE SUMMONER AND THE PARDONER
19. 20Chaucer is...
A CHARACTER IN THE PILGRIMAGE, AND THE AUTHOR
OF THE WORK AS A WHOLE
20. 21Which pilgrim throws a book into the fire?
 THE REEVE
THE WIFE OF BATH
21. 22What does the Man of Law refuse to tell a tale about?
INCEST
22. 23Who interrupts the Parson just before he is to tell his tale?
THE SHIPMAN
23. 24The Cook's real name is
ROGER OF WARE
25.The Host's name is

HARRY BAILEY
 During what century did Chaucer live?

 14th

 Historical evidence suggests that Chaucer may have died

POVER

 In the Clerk’s Tale, Griselda is a woman

 of loveliness, patience, and fidelity

 In the Knight’s Tale of chivalry and honor, Arcite and Palamon both are in love
with whom?

 Emilie

 In the Miller’s Tale, what is the occupation of Alison’s jealous husband?

 Carpenter

 In the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, how does the fox trick Chaunticleer?

 With flattery

 n the Pardoner’s Tale, what are the young men looking for when they find the
bushels of gold?

 Death

 The Merchant’s Tale is about

 the deception of an old husband by his young bride

  Which is the best description of the Wife of Bath?

 a gap-toothed woman who has been married five times

 Which of the following pilgrims comes the closest to being the ideal religious
leader?

 the Parson

1. In the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the Parson’s brother is the
a. Doctor.
b. Knight.
c. Plowman.
d. Oxford Cleric.

C
ANSWER: 
 
2. The Canterbury Tales is structured as a
a. parody.
b. folk ballad.
c. melodrama.
d. frame story.

D
ANSWER: 
3. In the opening lines of “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, the narrator
a. criticizes chivalry.
b. attacks the corruption in the Church.
c. rejoices in the renewing cycle of life.
d. establishes the ideal of the Renaissance man.

C
ANSWER: 
4. The narrator in “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales appears to be
a. naive.
b. irritable.
c. immoral.
d. anti-social.

A
ANSWER: 
5. In “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim whose profession gives him “a
special love of gold” is the
a. Parson.
b. Doctor.
c. Summoner.
d. Franklin.
 B
ANSWER: 
6. In “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s characters are
a. on a religious pilgrimage.
b. part of a wedding party.
c. in a riding club.
d. on their way to the Holy Land.

A
ANSWER: 
7. Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is
a. shy.
b. patient.
c. independent.
d. humourless.

C
ANSWER: 
8. Immediately prior to joining the other pilgrims in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tale, the
Knight had
a. been at court.
b. gone to visit his rural estate.
c. been engaged in battles overseas.
d. bought new clothes for the pilgrimage.

C
ANSWER: 

9. In “The Prologue” to  The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim who neglects his
religious duties in order to hunt is the
a. Parson.
b. Monk.
c. Pardoner.
d. Summoner.

B
ANSWER: 
 
10. In describing the Friar as “a noble pillar to his
Order,” Chaucer uses
a. epigram.
b.irony.
c. inversion.
d.apostrophe.

B
ANSWER: 
 
During the 14th Century, what made people decide that a collective social
change was needed?
Discuss

o A. 

The realisation that the end of the world was not necessarily coming shortly

o B. 

The realisation that the earth was not the centre of the universe

o C. 

The realisation that the end of the world was coming

o D. 

The realisation that the earth was the centre of the universe
 

 2. 
What was the life expectancy of women in the 14 th Century?

o A. 

14

o B. 

22

o C. 

26

o D. 

29
 

 3. 
At what age did the majority of men get married in the 14 th Century?

o A. 
 14

o B. 

20

o C. 

24

o D. 

35
 

 4. 
Which of the following events took place in 1381 in England?

o A. 

Treaty of Bretigny

o B. 

Death of Edward III

o C. 

Invention of the printing press

o D. 

The Peasant’s Revolt

 

 5. 
Which of the following facts is not true of the life of Geoffrey Chaucer?

o A. 

He was a diplomat

o B. 

He died in 1410

o C. 

He was the only son of a London wine-merchant

o D. 
 He was a translator
 

 6. 
Edward III paid £16 ransom to release Chaucer. During which war was he
made captive?

o A. 

The Six-Day War

o B. 

The Bulgarian-Ottoman War

o C. 

The Scottish War of Independence

o D. 

The Hundred Years’ War

 

 7. 
Chaucer is often considered the first representative of which movement in
English literature?

o A. 

Humanism

o B. 

Aestheticism

o C. 

Expressionism

o D. 

Transcendentalism
 

 8. 
Which of the following Italian authors did not influence Chaucer?

o A. 

Dante Alighieri
 o B. 

Francesco Petrarca

o C. 

Pietro Bembo

o D. 

Giovanni Boccaccio
 

 9. 
Which of the following is a narrative poem which many scholars
consider to be Chaucer’s finest work?

o A. 

Troilus and Chrisalida

o B. 

Trollus and Cressilda

o C. 

Traldus and Cressida

o D. 

Troilus and Criseyde

 

 10. 
During which of the following periods were the Canterbury Tales written?

o A. 

1240-1244

o B. 

1310-1315

o C. 

1387-1400

o D. 
 1395-1405
 

 11. 
In which year did William Caxton publish the Canterbury Tales for the
first time?

o A. 

1450

o B. 

1460

o C. 

1470

o D. 

1480
 

 12. 
In the Canterbury Tales, one story connects a series of other stories.
What is this literary technique called?

o A. 

Frame narrative

o B. 

Web narrative

o C. 

Box narrative

o D. 

Casing narrative
 

 13. 
The Prologue and majority of the tales are composed of what?

o A. 

Decasyllabic verses in rhyming couplets

 o B. 

Unrhymed dodecasyllabic verses

o C. 

Octosyllabic verses in rhyming couplets

o D. 

Unrhymed decasyllabic verses

 

 14. 
In his initial plan for the Canterbury Tales, how many stories did
Chaucer wish to include?

o A. 

120

o B. 

60

o C. 

100

o D. 

90
 

 15. 
How many tales did Chaucer complete?

o A. 

12

o B. 

20

o C. 

24

o D. 
 30
 

 16. 
Which of the following is a theme of the text?

o A. 

Courtly love

o B. 

Importance of company

o C. 

Corruption of the Church

o D. 

All of the above

 

 17. 
In which season does the pilgrimage take place?

o A. 

Spring

o B. 

Summer

o C. 

Autumn

o D. 

Winter
 

 18. 
The pilgrims travel to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury
Cathedral. Where do they depart from?

o A. 

Southwark
 o B. 

Southpark

o C. 

Southbank

o D. 

Southwalk
 

 19. 
What is the name of the host?

o A. 

Barry Hailey

o B. 

Gary Mailey

o C. 

Harry Bailey

o D. 

Larry Sailey
 

 20. 
The host decides that each pilgrim must tell how many stories?

o A. 

Two on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back

o B. 

One on the way to Canterbury

o C. 

One on the way back from Canterbury

o D. 

One on the way to Canterbury and one on the way back

  

 21. 
What is the prize for winning the storytelling contest?

o A. 

A date with the Wife of Bath

o B. 

A book of poetry

o C. 

A medal and certificate

o D. 

A free meal at the Tabard Inn

 

 22. 
Apart from the narrator, how many travellers go on the pilgrimage?

o A. 

27

o B. 

28

o C. 

29

o D. 

26
 

 23. 
What aspects of the pilgrims are described in the General Prologue?

o A. 

All of the other answers are correct

o B. 
 Physical appearance

o C. 

Social rank

o D. 

Clothing
 

 24. 
The pilgrims are representative of typical 14th Century social 'classes'.
What are these collectives called?

o A. 

Estates

o B. 

Clusters

o C. 

Assemblies

o D. 

Factions
 

 25. 
Which character represents the highest social class of the group?

o A. 

Squire

o B. 

Knight

o C. 

Monk

o D. 

Miller
Some Mcqs from chaucer & prologue:

1)      Who introduced the heroic couplet into English?

Ans: Chaucer (in the Legend of Good Women)

2)      Who wrote the Book of Duchess?

Ans: Chaucer

3)      Who is referred to as ‘fusion tunic’?

Ans: Knight

4)      Madame Eglantine also known as?

Ans: Prioress

5)      Father of English poetry is?

Ans: Chaucer

6)      Whose name is Huberd?

Ans: Friar

7)      Who is described as ‘Epicurus Son’?

Ans: Franklin

8)      During Chaucer’s period medicine was connected with

Ans: Astronomy

9)      Who called Chaucer as the father of English Poetry?

Ans: Dryden

10)  How many Pilgrims are there in Canterbury Tales?

Ans: 30 (including Chaucer)

11)  Which is the first in Canterbury Tales?

Ans: The Knight’s Tale

12)  The Pilgrims went for a pilgrimage to Canterbury in the month of

Ans: April

13)  29 Pilgrims came to Tabard Inn at

Ans: Early in the morning

14)  How many battle were fought by knight?

Ans: 15

15)  What is the name of the nun?

Ans: Madame Eglantine

16)  The Nun speaks _____ fluently

Ans: French

17)  The young Squire who appears in the Canterbury Tales is the son of _______

Ans: The Knight

18)  The Yeoman attended on or served whom?

Ans: The Knight

19)  Who is fond of hunting?

Ans: The Monk

20)  A sailor appears in the prologue to Canterbury Tale. The sailor ship name was

Ans: Maudelayne

21)  Who was deaf among the following?

Ans: Wife of Bath

22)  How many times Wife of bath married?

Ans: 5 times

23)  How many times Wife of bath went to Jerusalem?

Ans: 3 times

24)  Which are the tales in “Canterbury Tales” were written in Prose?

Ans: The Parson’s Tale and Melibus Tale

25)  What are the tales told by Chaucer?

Ans: The Tale of Sir Thopas and The Tale of Melibee

26)  Which is the longest tale?

Ans: Parson’s Tale

27)  The Shortest tale is?

Ans: Yeoman ????

28)  Who was Parson’s brother?

Ans: Plowman

29)  Who always rode last in the group of pilgrims?

Ans: Reeve (He is a Carpenter)

30)  The pilgrims Stayed at

Ans: Tabard Inn

31)  The host asked the pilgrims to tell ____ stories when they go to Canterbury

Ans: Two

32)  Who proposed that every pilgrim should tell two stories?

Ans: The Host

33)  Who opposed the proposal of the Host?

Ans: No one

34)  The Pilgrims started their pilgrimage at

Ans: Morning

35)  “Therefore he loved Gold in special”. The word ‘he’ refers to whom?

Ans: The Doctor

36)  Number of pilgrims including the narration or in the prologue conterbury tales are

Ans: 30

37)  How many completed tales are there in the Canterbury Tales?

Ans: 24

38)  What type of Dialect Chaucer used in his work?

Ans: East Midland Dialect

39)  Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?

Ans: To worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket

40)  What does the Squire wear?

Ans: Cloth embroidered with flowers

41)  Who marries Emelye in the Knight’s Tale?

Ans: Palamon

42)  According to the Wife of Bath, what do women most desire?

Ans: Sovereignty over their husbands

43)  What does Chanticleer dream?

Ans: That he will be taken away by an orange, houndlike creature

44)  Who are the three men searching for in the Pardoner’s Tale?

Ans: Death

45)  Who is branded by a red-hot poker in the Miller’s Tale?

Ans: Nicholas

46)  Who gives the brand to the Nicholas?

Ans: Absolon

47)  Which of the following tales is a fabliau?

Ans: The Miller’s Tale

48)  Which pilgrim has a forked beard?

Ans: The Merchant

49)  What is the moral of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?

Ans: Never trust a flatterer.

50)  What is the Wife of Bath’s Prologue about?

Ans: Her life with her five different husbands

51)  When does The Canterbury Tales take place?

Ans: In the late fourteenth century

52)  For which social classes did Chaucer write?

Ans: All levels of society

53)  What was Chaucer’s profession?

Ans: Civil servant

54)  How many Canterbury Tales are there?

Ans: 24

55)  What is a romance?

Ans: A story of knights, ladies, quests, and love

56)  Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval sermon?

Ans: The Pardoner’s Tale

57)  Which pilgrims are most richly attired?

Ans: Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician, Franklin

58)  Which tales take place in the Orient?

Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale and the Squire’s Tale

59)  Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning “Love Conquers
All”?

Ans: The Prioress

60)  At what time of year does the pilgrimage take place?

Ans: In the height of spring

61)  Which characters are connected to the Church?

Ans: The Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the Summoner, and the Pardoner

62)  Which tale is about a talking falcon?

Ans: The Squire’s Tale

63)  Which tales are about the patient suffering of women?

Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale (Exile of Custance), the Clerk’s Tale (Ordeal of Griselda),
and the Physician’s Tale (Mercy killing of Virginia)

64)  Why does the Pardoner upset the Host?

Ans: The Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the pilgrims, after he has already told
them that he cheats people.

65)  In which year Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales?

Ans: 1387 to 1400

66)  Who did Arcite who won the fight with Palamon die?

Ans: He fell from the Horse Riding

67)  Who imprisoned Arcite and Palamon?

Ans: Theseus, the duke of Athens

68)  The characters John and Alayn appear in the story of _______

Ans: The Reeve’s Tale

69)  The Perkyn who drinks heavily and stays with his friend’s house and his wife who is
a prostitute appears in the tale of _________

Ans: The Cook’s Tales

70)  Who had Ulcer on his face?

Ans: The Cook

71)  The conversion of muslims to chrisitians takes place in the story of _________

Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale.

72)  What is the name of the mother of Sultan who is killed by her Sultan in the tale of
the man of Law?

Ans: Hermengyld

73)  What is the name of the mother of Alla, the King of Northumberland who is killed by
her son Alla?

Ans: Donegild

74)  Who is the son born to All and Custance?

Ans: Mauricius

75)  How many lines the prologue of Canterbury Tales has?

Ans: 858 lines

76)  Which are the unfinished Tales of Canterbury Tales?

Ans: The Cook’s Tale and Squire’s Tale

77)  Who is Mrs. Sweetbriar?

Ans: Madame Eglantine

78)  The clerk of oxford had twenty books which were written by ________

Ans: Aristotle

79)  Who says of Chaucer “Here is God’s Plenty”?

Ans: Dryden

80)  Who criticizes Canterbury Tales as Portrait Gallary?

Ans: Dryden

81)  Who says of Chaucer, “He must have been a man of most wonderful
comprehensive soul?

Ans: Dryden

82)  Who called Chaucer as the father of English poetry?

Ans: Dryden

83)  Who called Chaucer as the father of our splendid English Poetry?

Ans: Matthew Arnold

84)  Who called Chaucer as a perpetual fountain of good sense?

Ans: Matthew Arnold

85)  Who says of Chaucer, “He will be read far more generally than he is read now”

Ans: Matthew Arnold

86)  Who said that Chaucer lacks high seriousness?

Ans: Matthew Arnold

1. Chaucer lived during the reigns of – Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV
2. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written in – 1385 onwards
3. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales belongs to – 3rd Period of Chaucer’s literary career 4.
Norman Conquest took place in – 1066 (11th Century)
5. Wyclif’s Bible was published in – 1380 6. William Langland’s The Vision of William
concerning Piers the Plowman was written in – 1362-90
7. The Travels of Sir John Maundeville was published in - 1400
8. The Hundred Years’ War was begun in – 1338 (14th Century)
9. The Hundred Years’ War was fought between – England and France
10. Wat Tyler’s Rebellion took place in - 1381
11. The War of Roses was fought between – The House of York and the House of
Lancaster
12. The War of Roses was fought during the period – 1455-86
13. Thomas Malory’s Morte De Arthur was written in – 1470 (published in 1485) 14.
Caxton’s Printing Press was set up in – 1485
15. Thomas More’s Utopia was published in – 1516 (Latin), 1551 (English)
16. The First English Comedy, Roister Doister was written in – 1550
17. Roister Doister was written by – Nicholas Udall
18. The First English Tragedy, Gorboduc was written in – 1561
19. Gorboduc was written by – Thomas Sackville, Lord of Buckhurst & Thomas Norton
20. Tottel’s Miscellancy was published in - 1557
21. Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of England in – 1558
22. Globe Theatre was built in – 1599
23. The Elizabethan Age covers the period – 1558-1602
24. The leader of University Wits was – Christopher Marlowe
25. Marlowe’s first tragedy was – Tamburlaine the Great (1587)
26. Shakespeare wrote – 37 plays
27. Dryden’s All for Love is based on Shakespeare’s – Antony and Cleopatra 28.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets were published in – 1609
29. The hero of Spenser’s Faerie Queene is - King Arthur
30. Spenser’s Faerie Queene is dedicated to – Queen Elizabeth
31. Spenser dedicated his Shephearde’s Calendar to – Philip Sydney
32. John Lyly’s Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit was published in 1579 and was
contemporary with – Shepheardes Calender.
33. White Devil and Duchess of Malfi were written by – John Webester
34. Ben Jonson’s first play Every Man in his Humour was published in – 1598
35. Ben Jonson is known for his – Comedy of Humours
36. Ben Jonson’s play written wholly in prose – Bartholomew Fair
37. Bacon’s essays are written in – Aphoristic style
38. Bacon wrote essays in all – 106 essays (1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition – 10, 38, 58 essays)
39. Authorised version of the Bible - 1611 40. The leader of Metaphysical School of
Poets was – Henery Vaughan
41. The term ‘Augustan’ was first applied to school of Poets by – Dr. Johnson
42. The intellectual father of French Revolution – Rousseau
43. Lyrical Ballads was published in – 1798
44. The leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in England was – D.G. Rossetti
45. The founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England – William Holman Hunt
46. The originator of the Oxford Movement was – John Keble
47. The phrase ‘Stream of Consciousness’ is associated with – James Joyce
48. The Hero of Homer’s Iliad is – Achilles
49. Pope’s Rape of the Lock contains – Five Cantos
50. A Ballad stanza generally contains – Four lines

51. The greatest Epic in English is written by – Milton

52. The next in command after Satan in Paradise Lost is – Beelzebub
53. The meaning of L’Allegro is – A cheerful man
54. A Pastoral Elegy written by Shelley on the death of Keats – Adonais
55. Everyman a famous play of 15th Century was a – Morality Play
56. The villain in Duchess of Malfi is – Bosola
57. Dryden’s plays in general are called – Heroic Plays
58. The last play written by Shakespeare is – The Tempest
59. Andrea Del Sarto in Browning’s Dramatic Monologue was – A renowned Painter
60. Rabbi Ben Ezra was a – real Jewish Scholar.
61. Occleve in The Governail of Princes wrote a famous poem mourning the death of
Chaucer.
62. Caxton was the first to set up a printing press in England in 1476.
63. William Tyndale’s English New Testament is the earliest version of the Bible.
64. Tottle's Miscellany is a famous anthology of 'Songs and Sonnets' by Wyatt and
Surrey.
65. Amoretti contained 88 sonnets of Spenser.
66. Thomas Mores' Utopia was first written in Latin in 1516. It was rendered into English
in 1551.
67. Roister Doister is believed to be the first regular comedy in English by Nicholas
Udall.
68. Gorboduc is believed to be the first regular tragedy in English by Sackville and
Norton in collaboration.
69. Chaucer's Physician in the Doctor of Physique was heavily dependent upon
Astrology.
70. Spenser described Chaucer as "The Well of English undefiled’.
71. Chaucer's pilgrims go on their pilgrimage in the month of April.
72. Forest of Arden appears in the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare. 73.
Globe Theatre was built in 1599.
74. When Sidney died, Spenser wrote an elegy on his death called “Astrophel”
75. Spenser’s Epithalamion is a wedding hymn.
76. The first tragedy Gorboduc was later entitled as Ferrex and Porrex.
77. Sidney's “Apologie for Poetrie” is a reply to Gosson's “School of Abuse”.
78. In his Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney defends the Three Dramatic Unities.
79. Christopher Marlowe wrote only tragedies. He first used Blank Verse in his Jew of
Malta.
80. "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships” . This line occurs in Doctor
Faustus by Marlowe.
81. Ben Jonson used the phrase 'Marlowe's mighty line' for Marlowe's Blank Verse.
82. Ruskin said, "Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes".
83. The phrase 'The Mousetrap' used by Shakespeare in Hamlet. It is the play within the
play.
84. Spenser dedicates the Preface to The Faerie Queene to Sir Walter Raleigh.
85. The Faerie Queene is an allegory .In this Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the
character of Gloriana.
86. Charles Lamb called Spenser the 'Poets' Poet'.
87. Spenser first used the Spenserian stanza in Faerie Queene.
88. In the original scheme or plan of the Faerie Queene as designed by Spenser, it was
to be completed in Twelve Books. But he could not complete the whole plan. Only six
books exist now.
89. Twelve Cantos are there in Book I of the Faerie Queene.
90. In the Dedicatory Letter, Spenser Says that the real beginning of the allegory in the
Faerie Queene is to be found in Book XII.
91. The Faerie Queene is basically a moral allegory. Spenser derived this concept of
moral allegory from Aristotle. 92. Ben Jonson said 'Spenser writ no language.'
93. Spenser divided his ‘Shepheardes Calender’ into twelve Ecologues. They represent
twelve months of a year.
94. Bacon's Essays are modelled on the Essais of Montaigne.
95. Bacon is the author of Novum Organum.
96. Spenser dedicated his Shepheards Calendar to Sir Philip Sidney.
97. Ten Essays were published in Bacon's First Edition of Essays in 1597.
98. 58 essays of Bacon were published in his third and last edition of Essays in 1625.
99. "......... a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make
the metal work the better , but it embaseth it". These lines occur in Bacon’s “Of Truth”.
100. Hamlet said "Frailty thy name is woman” in Hamlet by Shakespeare.

The Main Quotation of the Different Authors in English Literature

1. “Speak to me why do you never speak”- TS Eliot
2. “The world is not the reasonable place where we are led to believe”
3. “All Power corrupts one had to live with “darkness of man’s heart”- These Quotations
has been taken from Lord of the flies
4. “True wit is nature to advantage dressed what oft was thought, but never so well
expressed”- Pope- Manner of expression
5. “Come what may he will be one of our greatest poets” about GM Hopkins
6. “O lady: we receive but what we give and in our life alone does nature live” Coleridge
7. “The term applies descriptions, not of the true appearances of things to us but of the
extraordinary appearances”
8. Pathetic Fallacy
9. “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers” Byron, it was said about contemporary literary
scene and a satire against the Edinburgh Review
10. “For men may come and men may go but I go on forever” The Brook
11. Sensation novel, Mystery story are associated with Wikie Collins
12. “Arts Longa, Vita Briers” Art is long and time is fleeting” Longfellow
13. The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples: About Ulyses by James
Joyce: Virgina Wolfe
14. “A Hyena in Petticoats”- Marry Wollstonecraft
15. “Left Book Club: was founded by Victor Golding
16. “First Nobel Prize for literature was started in 1900
17. “A Beginning” Don Moraes in the age of 20 and awarded by Houthorndon prize
18. “But thoughts the slave of life, Life time’s fool and that makes survey of the entire
world must have a stop” Macbeth
19. “Next to, of course God America I Love you land of pilgrims and so forth Oh!” TS
Eliot
20. “Against the bridal day, which was not so long? Sweet Thames! Run softly, till I end
my song” Prothela Mion
21. An Epic Poetry is “As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines”
Macaulay
22. “The best luck all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” Second
Coming –WB Yeats
23. “The errors of evaluating a poem by its emotional effect”-Effective Fallacy
24. “The Waste Land” longest poem in the English language because of its profundity,
Perplexity and density of poetic allusions, myths and meaning” Ezra Pound
25. “Rich disorganization” about Waste Land who said-FR Leavis
26. Dryden says, “Donne affects the metaphysic” in which book? –Discourse of Satire.
27. “if pope be not a poet, where is poetry found?”- Dr.Johnson
28. “Mad, bad and dangerous to know” about Byron –Lady Caroline lamb
29. Attribution of human capacities to natural objects and similar to perfection- Pathetic
Fallacy
30. Romanticism “Addition of strangeness to beauty” Walter Pater
31. “Replaced the academic style, return to the truthfulness and simplicity, drawing from
the Italian paintings before the time of Raphael” –Pre Raphaelities
32. “Poor Matth He is gone to heaven no doubt but he went like God”- RL Stevention
about Matthew Arnold
33.
“We poets in our youth begin in gladness but there of come in the end, despondency
and madness” Resolution and Independence
34. “An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wing in vain” About Shelley-
Matthew Arnold
35. When you shall these unlucky deeds relate speak of me as I’m nothing extenuate.
Nor set down aughtin malice then must you speak. Of one that loved not wisely, but too
well” Othello
36. “The unity of a work of art is achieved neither through the unity of character nor unity
of action, but through unity of the author’s moral position” Flaubert
37. “A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”-Samuel Butler
38. “An essay is a loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular or
orderly composition”- Dr. Jonson
39. “It is a trite but true observation that examples work more forcibly on the mind than
percepts” in the beginning of the book – Joseph Andrews
40. “A man proud, moody cynical, with defiance and misery a scorners”-Macaulay about
Byronic hero
41. “Pope can fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in six” Jonathan Swift
42. The true prologue to the Renaissance is – Utopia
43. “if music be the food of love , play on”- Twelfth Night
44. “I write plays with the deliberate purpose to convert the nation to my opinion” GB
Shaw
45. “A selection of varieties of work” Pastiche
46. “My mental condition presented itself to me this way. My life is stupid and spiteful
joke that someone has played on me” The Confession

47. “Yet if we could scorn

Hate, and pride and fear
Note to shed a tear
I know not how thy joy we ever
Should come near” Ode to Skylark by Shelley
48. Only Prose work of Edmund Spenser is- View of the state of Ireland
49. Full fathom five thy father lies of his bones are corals made, these are pearls that
were his eyes but do suffer a sea change-  are from the Shakespearean play Tempest
50. “The splendid Shilling”-John Philip and “Paradise Lost” Milton are the parodies
51. “My love is like a red red roses”-Robur Burns
52. Anthony Trollope satirise the book in his “The Warden”- Both Carlyle and Dickens
53. Story of the Country Mouse by Matthew Prior and The hind and Pnther by Dryden
are the parody
54. “A man would be a fool to deliberately stand up to be shot at” in the last novel of 
Hardy
55. “Learn hence for  ancient rule a just esteem to copy nature is to copy them” spirit of
these line is Imitation of the ancients
56. The Neoclassical ideal was founded especially on: Horace’s Ars Poetica
57. “Gentleman prefer blondes”- Anita Loos
58. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal” in Animal Farm by George
Orwell
59. “A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed. One too like thee, tamales and
swift and proud”- Shelley
60. “And there I shut her wild eyes with kisses four”-La Belle Dame Sans Merci
61. “I’m afraid there’s many a spectacled sod prefers the British Museum to God?”- WH
Auden
62. The Lady is not for Burning- Christopher Fry
63. Only foreign honorary fellow at the Sahitya Akademy- Joseph Brodsky
64. Stiff in opinion always in the wrong, was everything by stars and nothing long – John
Dryden
65. Originator of Picaresque Novel: Thomas Nash
66. Caterpillars of the commonwealth and father lies: Stephen Gosson from the School
of Abuse
67. A Classicist in literature, royalist in politics and Anglo-catholic in religion-TS Eliot
68. I  believe that all novel deal with character and that it is to express character not to
speech doctrines sing songs or celebrates the glories of the British Empire” Virginia
Woolfe
69. Oxford Movement: Cardinal newman , John Kable , John Henry Newman
70. Apologies for Poetry, Sidney is writer against- Stephen Gosson
71. Oxford movement: Opposed to rationalism, anti-rationalism, interested in Biblical
miracles
72. The developer of Euphemism: John Lily
73. A lioness has whelped in the streets and graves have yawned and yielded up the
dead”-Romeo and Juliat by Shakespeare
74. “18th Century is the age of prose- Matthew Arnold
The rose was awake all night for your sake
Knowing your promise to me
The Lilies and roses were all aware
Thy sighed for the dawn and thee” –Maud
75. Broken narrative, new private vocabulary, sardonic humour are the features of
James Joyce
76. I shall Endeavour to enliven morality with wit and temper wit with morality- Addison
77. “I have a smack of Hamlet myself if I may say so”- Coleridge
78. The first book printed in English: The History of Troy
79. Plutarch Lives in 1579 who translated in to English: Thomas North
80. The Neoclassical Age, The Age of Dryden, the Age of Reason, Restoration are the
name of the same age
81. Who praised the comedy of manners: Charles Lamb?
82. Faire Queen, Divine Comedy, Pilgrims progress are the allegories
83. “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” Winston Churchill
84. Beware of all enterprises that require new cloths; HD Thoreau
85. Willows Whiten, aspen quiver
Little Breezier dusk and shiver,
Thro’ the waves that runs for ever
By the island in the river.- The Lady of Sharlot-Tennyson
86. As Ceaser Loved me I weep for him
But as he was ambitious I slew him.- anticlimax
87. English is a vulgar language and would remain so for ever.- Bacon
88. In younder grave druid lies” James Thomson laments the death of- William Collins
89. Novel without Hero: Vanity Fair
90. Essays on criticism by Pope: it was influenced by Boliau and Aristotle
91. The Romantic did not produce remarkable plays, but good criticism on the dramas is
available “ on the knocking at the gate  in Macbeth” Thomas De Quincy
92. Dryden “ He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the
largest and most comprehensive soul about”- Shakespeare
93. Adventure Fiction David Daiches
94. Joyce: Ulyses  is the model of Homer’s Odessy
95. Neo romanticism: Dylon Thomas
96. Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy wealthy and dead- James
Thurker
97. We all have sufficient strength to bear other people’s misfortune” La Rochefouenld
98. Winter is come and gone but grief returns with the revolving year- In Memoriam
99. Movement Poet: Philip Larkin
100. Light breaks where no sun shines: Dylon Thomas
101. Great Traditions: FR Leavis
102. The tomb bore the names of Tom and Magggie Tulliver and below the names it was
written. In this death they were not divided: The Mill on the Floss
103. “The Prologue to the Modern Fiction” Long about Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Becaue of: Narrative unity
104. Authorized Bible was dedicated to –james I
105. “God is dead” Fredrich Nietsche: Thus spake zarthustra
106. Stream of Consciousness in 1890  was used in the book: Principles of Psychology:
William james
107. Blow, Blow thou winter wind thou art not so unkind, As mans ingratitude, thy tooth
is not that keen.: As you like it Amiens sings it
108. Friends , our dear sister is departing for foreign in two three days: Nisim Ezekiel
109. Since the author of Tome Jones was buried no writer of fiction among us has been
permitte to his utmost power of man. We must drape him and give him a certain
conventional simper. W Makepeace Thackeray
110. While the present century was in its teens   novels begin with these  tones: Vanity
Fair
111. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life: David Copperfield
112. “The well of English undefiled”-Chaucer his avoidance of foreign influence
113. He found English a dialect and left it a language: Lowes about Chaucer
114. Here lies my wife, here let her lie, Now he is at rest, and so am I.- John Dryden
115. Sons of Belial flown with insolence and wine: Milton referred to court writer of
Restoration
116. A cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and value of nothing.-Oscar
wilde
117. 18th century is the age of prose and reason: Matthew Arnold
118. Comedy of Manners: Courtship satire and wit
119. Melting apparent surfaces and displaying the infinite which was hid.  William Blake
Explains his method of printing
120. One evening of late summer, before the Nineteenth Century had reached one-third
of its span a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the
large village of Weydon  Priors, in upper Wesses , on fort. Which Begins with these
lines: Mayor of Casterbridge
121. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days
supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies: Thomas Macaulay
122. Lollards: followers of John Wycliff
123. “In 1801 I have just returned from a visit to my landlord the solitary neighbor that I
shall be troubled with” begins the novel: Wuthering Heights
124. It is a truth universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good
fortune must be in want of a wife.-  Pride and Prejudice
125. In growing polish and decency of society he saw only mask for hypocrisy about:
Jonathan Swift
126. Every craft and every power soon grows old and is passed over and forgotten if it
be without wisdom this is now to be said that whilst I live I wish to live come after me as
memory of good works.- King Alfred
127. He has nothing of the bear but his skin: Oliver Goldsmith about Samuel Johnson
128. A book should help us either to enjoy life or to endure it” Dr.Johnson
129.  Eliot “A game of chess ends with repeated good nights to ladies” Hamlet William
Shakespeare
130. Blossom by blossom the spring begins in which poem: When the Hounds of Spring-
Swinburne
131. Winter is come and gone but grief returns with revolving year” in Memoriam
132. To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the
palm of your hand and eternity in an hour’s: William Blake
133. “An unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates
134. The stream of consciousness mode of fiction writing: Dorothy Richardson
135.  I suffered from impaired eyesight depression and poverty and left oxford without a
degree. aFter a period as a teacher and my marriage to Mrs. Porter a widow twice my a
g I left for London to begin writing for the Gentlemen’s Magazine I produced my own
journal “The Rambler” written almost  entirely by myself” : Dr. Samuel Jonson
136. Who said my master spenser: Thomas
137. Tragic Falw in Hamlet: Noble Inaction
138. The Waste Land is “Cross word puzzle of synthetic literary chronology” o “ Spurious
Verbal Algebra” : Wyndham Lewis
139. New Critics wrote the books: Anatonomy of Literature , Psychological approach
140. Ploughman poet: Robert Burn
141. Picaresque Novel: Realistic in manner, Episodic in structure, satiric in aim
142. To conclude as there are not be found a worthier man and woman , them this fond
couple, so neither can any be imagined more happy, They preserve the purest and
tenderest affection for each other and tenderest affection for each other and affection
daily increased and confirmed by mutual endearment and mutual esteem. : concluding
line of the novel- Tom Jones
143. Romanticism” addition of strangeness to beauty”  Walter Pater
144. First note worthy poet of romantic revival:
Thomson
145. Romantic movement “Liberalism in Literature”
Victor Hugo
146. Let not his frailties are remembered. He was a very great man” about Goldsmith,
Samuel Johnson
147. Had we never loved so kindly,
Had we never loved so blindly
Never met or never parted
We had never been broken hearted- Roburt Burn
148. He  has given us the best picture of Landor, Hood, Clarke, and many  more
interesting writer of his age”- Lamb
149. She did for the English novel what the lake poets did for English poetry: Austen
150. Just for a handful of silver he left us , just for a rib and to stick to his coat: Robert
Browning about Wordsworth
151. An archaeologist  is the best husband any woman can have , the older she gets the
more interested his is in her – Agatha Christie
152. Rhymers Club: it is a group of younger poets in London. He wrote on the prostitutes
and music hall dancers
153. Collective Unconscious- CG Jung
154. These rules of old discovered not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized –
Pope
155. With a phrase make a character as real as flesh and blood – TS Eliot
156. We all have sufficient strength to bear other people’s misfortune- La
Rochefouchauld
157. Dying Words  “Crito I owe a cock to asclepus, will you remember to pay the debt?”-
Socrates
158. First prize (Noble) for literature –RFA Sully Prudhommne
159. The bright day is done
And we are for the dark- Anoneo and Cleopatra
160. Life is nice but it lacks form, it’s the aim of art to give it some – jean Anouith
161. The Words of the dead man are modified in the guts of the living- WH Auden
162. Mr. Henry James writes, fiction as if it is a painful duty- Oscar Wilde
163. The complexity of modern poetry is the result of the complexity of the modern life-
TS Eliot
164. For art’s sake alone I wouldnot face the toil of writing a single sentence- GB Shaw
165. I heartily hate and detest that animal called man – Swift said to Pope in Gulliver’s
Travels
166. Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book- Swift about A Tale of Tub
167. Pathetic Fallacy-John Ruskin
168. Female Suffrage-J S Mill
169. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good one. It is not fair he
had fame and profits enough as a poet and should not be taking the bread out of other
people’s mouths. I don’t like him and I don’t mean to like Waverly if I can help it but fear I
must.- Jane Austen
170. The passions are perfectly unknown to her, she rejects even a speaking
acquaintance with that stormy sisterhood- Jane Austen
171. Preserve the purity and ascertain the meaning of our English  idiom- Preface to
Dictionary- Samuel Johnson
172. The happiness was but the occasional episode is a general drama of pain- Thomas
Hardy
173. Browning’s Pauline- Tribute to Shelley and his poetry
174. In a word, the book is great moral study and a very interesting book, but the novel
as a whole lucks the strong reality which makes George Eliots other backs- Middle
March
175. A thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his sensibility. TS Eliot
176. He resembles browning not only in his  condensed style packed with thought but
also in this respect that he labored in obscurity and after much of his best work was 
published and apparently forgotten he slowly won the leading place in English fiction-
Meridith
177. I deal with all period but I never study any period but the present – Joseph Conard
178. Good morning to the day and next my Gold!
Open thy shrine that I may see my saint. – Poetaster
179. A thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his sensibility- TS Eliot
180. Literature always anticipates life it does not copy it but moulds it to its purpose-
Oscar Wilde
181. I awoke one morning and found muyself famous –Byron
182. France standing on the top of nature seeming born again- The prelude Wordsworth
183. Lamb was the most delightful the most provoking and sensible of man. He always
made the best pun and the best remarks in the course of evening
184. “Lights breaks where no sunshines” Dylon Thomas
185. Bless was it that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven- French Revolution by Wordsworth
186. I see in Wordsworth the natural man rising up against the spiritual man continually
and then he is no poet but a philosopher at enmity against all true poetry or inspiration-
William Blake
187. Poetry of Wordsworth is the reality, his philosophy is the illusion –Arnold
188. In 18th century “ Books were seldom judged on their merits the praise or blame
being generally awarded according to the political principal of their authors” – John
Dennis
189. When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped of its work, it is constantly amalgamating
human experience –TS Eliot
190. The 20th  century is still the nineteenth, although it  may in time acquire its own
character –TS Eliot
191. Geography is about maps but biography is about chaps;- EC Bentlay
192. An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome- Austen
193. Poetry  is more philosophical and of higher value than history- Aristotle
194. The old order changeth yielding place to new, lest one good custom should  corrupt
the world- The  Passing of Arthur- Tennyson
195. The desire of the moth for the star of the nights for the morrow
The devotion to something for – Shelley
196. Frailty, thy name is women- Hamelet- Shakespeare
197. That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet- Romeo and
Juliet –W Shakespeare
198. Affection may one day smile again and till then, sit thee down sorrow-Love’s Labour
Lost –W Shakespeare
199. He was the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and
most comprehensive soul- about Shakespeare-Dryden
200. Others abide our question thou art free: about Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold
201. They also serve who only stand and wait: On his Blindness by Milton
202. In Milton there is always an appearance of effort in Shakespeare scarcely any –
Matthew Arnold
203. Both are Lyric poems in the for of plays ( Milton)
Macaulay (about Camus and Samson Agonistes)
204. The Poet’s Poet- Spenser
205. America is my country and Paris is my home town: Grtrude stein
206. It is with that English Genius first fishes into English fiction: bunyan
207. I’m not prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be- Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock- TS
Eliot
208. Endymion by Keats and Alastor by Shelley are the same poems
209. He found the drama crude and chaotic he left it a great force in English Literature-
Compton Rickett about Marlowe
210. Bacon was the wisest, the brightest and the meanest of mankind- Alexander Pope
211. Life is tale told by an idiot- Macbeth by W Shakespeare
212. The heroine of Hamlet is Ophelia
213. Emerson “the lonely  wayfaring man- Whitman
214. In the room woman come and go talking of Michelangelo- The Love Song of J
Alfred Prufrock TS Eliot
215. John Donne is the first poet of the world in something- Johnson
216. Here is god’s Plenty – about Chaucer-Dryden
217. Pope could fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in six- Swift
218. The rest is silence- Hamlet
219. Where ignorance is bless, Tis folly to be wise-Gray in  the Ode on a distant
prospect of Eton College
220. Milton thou shouldest be living at this hour – Wordsworth
221. Diction is harsh, the shyness uncertain and the numbers unpleasing- Dr. Johnson
about Lycidas
222. Sarojini Naidu was Called Nightingale of India by- Gandhi
223. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn- here them is referred for ambitious
people
224. He passed the flames bounds of place and times- Gray about Milton
225. Father of imagism in English poetry- TE Hulme
226. Father of Neo-romantic poety in 1940- Dylon Thomas
227. The greatest commonwealth poet-Aurbindo Ghose
228. Tagore has described, “the inaugurator of the modern life in India – Raja Ram
Mohan Roy
229. The imaginative writer is afte effect, the scientific man is after truth- OW Holmes
230. Dear Son of Memory, Great heir of fame- Milton- about Chaucer
231. He is the greatest comic novelist in English , he is also the most truly poetic novelist
– Walter Alton about Dickens
232. I think her as delightful creature as ever appeared in print- Jane Austene about
Elizabeth Bannet
233. Prophasier of the things past- Walter Scott
234. The Spanish Gypsy by Thomas Middleton and As You Like It by W Shakespeare
are parodies
235. Heart are not had as gift but hearts are earned – WB Yeats
236. A prayer for my daughter- WB Yeats
237. Charles Morgan “survived the impact of modern scientific motions upon the soul of
humanity- The burning Glass
238. To judge of poets is only the faculty of poets and not of all poets but the lost- Ben
Jonson
239. Characters of Shakespeare’s plays is a collection of lectures by : William Hazlitt
240. He never takes liberties with historical facts as Shakespearean does but is accurate
to the small details about – Ben Jonson
241. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever – Endymion by Keats
242. They were a plain people faced with task of subduing a wilderness: Early Settlers in
America
243. Just as Hardy is a novelist of region Wessex, Arnold Bennett is novelist of – Five
towns ( Potteries)
244. Pity would be no more if we did not make somebody poor- Blake
245. Aropagus- Transplantations of classical metres in English During the Elizabethan
Age
246. Our is essentially a tragic age- Lady Chatterly’s Lover
247. Religion by blood- DH Lawrence
248. Blank verse user first- Sackville
249. We have no more sight to consume happiness without producing it then to
consume wealth without producing it- GB Shaw in Candida
250. That govt is best which govern least – Thoreau in Civil Obedience
251. Love , virtue, she alone is free – Milton in Camus
252. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post what
it thinks about dog.- John Osborne
253. This moral to be drawn is a sample one don’t let it happen it depends on you –
Nineteen Eighty Four
254. God made the country and man made the town- William Cowper
255. All I want to answer to my blood  direct without fribbling intervention of mind or
moral or what not  -DH Lawrence
256. The Castle of Ortanto- Horace Walpole-Gothic
257. Poetry is not a turning lose of emotion but an escape from emotion- TS Eliot
258. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth John Keats
259.  In this on that subtle novel Hathorne solve almost all his problems –Marcus
Cunliffe about The Scarlet Letter
260. He is the scientist and  frailest of classic in our poetry but he is a classic – Matthew
Arnold
261. Tis not too later to seek a newer world – Tennyson
262. Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes- Ruskin
263. Dickens of the Elizabethan Age- Thoma Daker
264. The Lunatic the love and the poet are of imagination all compact- Midsummer Night
Dream
265. Spenser’s Gloriana, Raleigh’s Cynathia, Shakespeare’s Fair Vestal all are
Elizabethan
266. Poetry that has palatable design upon us- Keats
267. There is sometimes a greater judgments shown in deviating from the rules of art
than in adhering to them-Joseph Addison
268. His verse is sensuous and persuasive and it is best  simple this according with
Milton’s famous definition – Walt Whitman
269. Say what have to say, whet you have a will to say, in the simplest the most direct
and exact manner possible : Walter Pater.
. Auto-Biography: -is the history of one’s life written by one self.
2. Act: - is the major division of a drama.
3. Antithesis: -is contrast or polarity in meaning.
4. Allusion: -is a reference to an idea, place, person or text existing outside the literary
work.
5. Allegory: - is a literary work that has an implied meaning.
6. Alliteration:-the repetition of a consonant in two or more words.
7. Ballad: -is a song which tells a story.
8. Biography: -is the history of a person’s life by one else.
9. Blank Verse: -Verses written in iambic pentameter withoutany rhyme pattern is called
blank verse.
10. Comedy:-is a play written to entertain its audience ends happily.
11. Classical:-means any writing that conforms to the rules and modes of old Greek and
Latin written.
12. Canto:-is a sub-division of an epic or a narrative poem comparable to a chapter in a
novel.
13. Chorus:-is a group of singers who stand alongside the stage in a drama.
14. Catharsis:-is emotional release of pity and fear that the tragic incidences in a tragedy
arouse to an audience.
15. Comic relief:-a humorous scene in a tragedy to eliminate the tragic effect from
audience.
16. Couplet:-To lines of the same material length usually found in Shakespearean
sonnet.
17. Catastrophe:-Catastrophe is the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy.
18. Didactic:-is a literary work which aims at teaching and instructing it readers.
19. Dirge:-is a short functional terms.
20. Diction:-is the selection of words in literary work.
21. Dialect:-is the language of particular district; class or a group of people.
22. Drammatical Monologue:-In a poem when a single person
speaks along with or without an audience is called drammatical monologue. Example
“My last Duchess”-----Browning.
23. Difference between drama and novel:-A drama is meant to perform whereas a novel
is meant to read.
24. Difference between stanza and paragraph:-A stanza contains verses whereas a
paragraph contains prosaic lines.
25. Epic:-is a long narrative poem composed on a grand scale and is exalted style.
Example “Paradise Last”-------Milton.
26. Epilogue:-is the concluding part of a longer poem or a novel or a drama.
27. Fable:-is a brief story illustrating a moral.
28. Farce:-A form of low comedy designed to provoke laughter.
29. Foot:-A basic unit of meter.
30. Fiction:-A fiction is an imaginative narrative in prose e.g. Lord of the fly—by Golding.
31. Elegy is a poem mourning to the death of an individual or a lament for a tragic event.
32. Genre:-means category or types of literature-epic, ode, ballad etc.
33. Hyperbole:-An overstatement or exaggeration.
34. Image:-is the mental picture connected with metaphor, smile and symbol.
35. Limerick:-is a short poem of a five-line stanza rhyming aaba.
36. Lyric:-A lyric is a short poem expressing a simple mood. It is usually personal and
musical e.g. Keats’s odes.
37. Linguistic:-is the scientific and systematic study of language.
38. Melodrama:-A highly sensational drama with happy ending.
Example ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ –Kyd.
39. Metaphysical Poetry:-Meta means beyond and physical is related to body . . . . . . . . .
40. Mock-epic:-It is a long satirical poem dealing with a trivial theme. Example: “The rape
of the lock”-Alexander Pope.
41. Metaphor:-A metaphor is an implicit comparison between two different things.
42. Metre:-The recurrence of similar stress pattern in some lines of a poem.
43. Novel:-is a long prose narrative fiction with plot characters etc.
44. Novelette:-is longer than a short story and shorter than a novel.
45. Ode:-is a long narrative poem of varying, line length dealing with serious subject
matter.
46. Objectivity:-We have objectivity in a literary piece when the author focuses on an
object from broadened point of view.
47. Octave:-is the firs part of Italian sonnet.
48. Oxymoron:-is apparently a physical contrast which oddly makes sense on a deeper
level.
49. Prologue:-is the beginning part of a novel or a play or a novel.

50. Prose:-Any material that is not written in a regular meter like a poetry.
51. Prosody:-Prosody is the mechanics or grammar of verse.
52. Protagonist:-Protagonist is the main character in a literary work
53. Plot:-The arrangement of incidents is called plot.
54. Pun:-A pun is playing with words.
55. Periods of English literature:-The Anglo-Saxon, Middle English Renaissance,
Restoration, Neoclassical Romantic, Victorian, Modern, Post-Modern.
56. Romanticism:-was a literary movement. It stands Opposite to reason and
focuses on emotion.
57. Rhetoric:-Rhetoric is the art of persuasive argument through writing.
58. Symbol:-A symbol is anything that stands for something else.
59. Sonnet:-is a lyric poem consisting of fourteen rhymed lines dealing with a lofty
theme.
60. Satire:-is ridiculing the vices and follies of an individual or a society with a
corrective design. E.g. “The rape of thelock”---Pope.
61. Short-story:-A short story is a prose narrative considerable length. It is shorter
than a novel.
62. Stanza:-is a group of verses having a rhyme schemepattern.
63. Subjectivity:-We find subjectivity in a literary work in which the writer’s
personal intrusion takes place.
64. Soliloquy:-It means speaking alone when in a play a character is found
speaking alone on the stage it is called soliloquy.

1. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from?

(A) Virgil
(B) Fetronius
(C) Seneca
(D) Homer
2. Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) J. C. Ransom
(C) I. A. Richards
(D) F. R Leavis
3. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City’ in the first and third
sections from?
(A) Baudelaire
(B) Irving Babbit
(C) Dante
(D) Laforgue
4. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste
Land?
(A) Oedipus
(B) Grail Legend of Fisher King
(C) Philomela
(D) Sysyphus
5. Joe Gargery is Pip’s?
(A) brother
(B) brother-in-Jaw
(C) guardian
(D) cousin
6. Estella is the daughter of?
(A) Joe Gargery
(B) Abel Magwitch .
(C) Miss Havisham
(D) Bentley Drumnile
7. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?
(A) Sesame and Lilies
(B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(C) Unto This Last
(D) Fors Clavigera
8. Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
(A) Catholicism
(B) Protestantism
(C) Paganism
(D) Buddhism
9. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is?
(A) boisterous humour
(B) humour and pathos
(C) subtlety of irony
(D) stream of consciousness
10. The title of the poem ‘The Second Coming’ is taken from?
(A) The Bible
(B) The Irish mythology
(C) The German mythology
(D) The Greek mythology
11. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?
(A God
(B) Satan
(C) Adam
(D) Eve
12. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel’s mother’s name is?
(A)Susan
(B)Jane
(C)Gertrude
(D) Emily
13. The twins in Lord of the Flies are?
(A)Ralph and Jack
(B) Simon and Eric
(C) Ralph and Eric
(D) Simon and Jack
14.Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
(A) lawyer
(B) postman
(C)Judge
(D) School teacher
15. What does ‘I’ stand for in the following line?
‘To Carthage then I came’
(A) Buddha
(B) Tiresias
(C) Smyrna Merchant
(D) Augustine
16. The following lines are an example……… of image.
‘The river sweats
Oil and tar’
(A) visual
(B) kinetic
(C) erotic
(D) sensual
17. Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
(A) Vanity Fair
(B) Middlemarch
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Oliver Twist
18. In ‘Leda and the Swan’, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan?
(A) Mars
(B) Hercules
(C) Zeus
(D) Bacchus
19. Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’?
(A)Hopkins
(B)Tennyson
(C)Browning
(D)Wordsworth
20.Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?
(A) Browning
(B) Tennyson
(C) Swinburne
(D) Rossetti
21.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Henry IV, Pt I
(C) Hamlet
(D) Twelfth Night
22. Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’
occurs in?
(A) Act II, Scene I
(B) Act III, Scene III
(C) Act IV, Scene III
(D) Act III, Scene I
23. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor
(A) Alonso
(B) Ariel
(C) Gonzalo
(D) Stephano
24. What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
(A) Or, What is you Will
(B) Or, What you Will
(C) Or, What you Like It
(D) Or, What you Think
25. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.
Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Hamlet
(C) Henry IV, Pt I
(D) Twelfth Night
26. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
(A) Earl of Northumberland
(B) Earl of March
(C) Earl of Douglas
(D) Earl of Worcester
27. Paradise Lost was originally written in?
(A) ten books
(B) eleven books
(C) nine books
(D) eight books
28. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with?
(A) Darcy
(B) Wickham
(C) William Collins
(D) Charles Bingley
29. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) P.B.Shelley
(C) S. T. Coleridge
(D) John Keats
30. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?
(A) Philip Pirrip
(B) Filip Pirip
(C)Philip Pip
(D) Philips Pirip
31. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in?
(A)Mexico
(B) Italy
(C)France
(D) Germany
32. Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A) The Inheritors
(B) Lord of the Flies
(C) Pincher Martin
(D) Pyramid
33.Identify the character who is a supporter of Women’s Rights in Sons and Lovers?
(A) Mrs. Morel
(B) Annie
(C) Miriam
(D) Clara Dawes

34. Vanity Fair is a novel by?

(A) Jane Austen
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) W. M. Thackeray
(D) Thomas Hardy
35. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
(A) Milton
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Johnson
36. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
(A) The White Peacock
(B) The Trespasser
(C) Sons and Lovers
(D) Women in Love
37. In the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘dearest friend’ refers to?
(A) Nature
(B) Dorothy
(C) Coleridge
(D) Wye
38. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British
Romantics?
(A) Keats
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Shelley
(D) Byron
39. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad?
(A) Work Without Hope
(B) Frost at Midnight
(C) The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner
(D) Youth and Age
40. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet—
(A) P. B. Shelley
(B) Charles Lamb
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Coleridge
41. Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
(A) Leigh Hunt
(B) Milton
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Thomas Chatterton
42. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in?
(A) 1823
(B) 1826
(C) 1834
(D) 1833
43. Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake School’?
(A) Keats
(B) Coleridge
(C) Southey
(D) Wordsworth
44.Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School,
London?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) S. T. Coleridge
45. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A) Tennyson
(8) Charles Lamb
(C) Lockhart
(D) T. S. Eliot
46. Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?
(A) A. H. Hallam
(B) Edward King
(C) Wellington
(D) P. B. Shelley
47. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?
(A) Robert Browning
(B) John Keble
(C) E. B. Pusey
(D) J. H. Newman
48. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on
winter’s traces..”?
(A) Chastelard
(B) A Song of Italy
(C) Atalanta in Calydon
(D) Songs before Sunrise
49. Carlyle’s work On Heroes, HeroWorship and the Heroic in History is a course of?
(A) six lectures
(B) five lectures
(C) four lectures
(D) seven lectures
50. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’?
(A) Johnson
(B) Cromwell
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Luther
51. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape
artist especially Turner?
(A) The Stones of Venice
(B) The Two Paths
(C) The Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D) Modem Painters
52. The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Anthony Trollope
(C) W. H. White
(D) B. Disraeli
53. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and
loss’—
(A) Tennyson
(B) Browning
(C) Swinburne
(D) D. G. Rossetti
54. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
(A) Spenserian Stanza
(B) Ballad
(C) OttavaRima
(D) Rhyme Royal
55. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry?
(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Earl of Surrey
(D) Milton
56. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
(A) The Pre-Raphaelites
(B) Ruskin
(C) Pater
(D) Matthew Arnold
57. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful
kept him falsely true.”
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Metaphor
(C) Simile
(D) Synecdoche
58. W. B. Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
(A) Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda and the Swan
59. Who is Pip’s friend in London?
(A) Pumblechook
(B) Herbert Pocket
(C) Bentley Drummle
(D) Jaggers
60. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory?
(A) A teacher
(B) A clerk
(C) A thief
(D) A dentist
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ANSWERS:
1D
2A
3C
4D
5C
6A
7C
8A
9B
10 A
11 B
12 C
13 A
14 A
15 D
16 C
17 A
18 D
19 A
20 C
21 A
22 D
23 C
24 B
25 B
26 A
27 D
28 B
29 C
30 C
31 A
32 B
33 A
34 C
35 C
36 A
37 B
38 B
39 C
40 A
41 A
42 D
43 A
44 A
45 D
46 A
47 A
48 C
49 B
50 B
51 D
52 D
53 D
54 C
55 C
56 D
57 A
58 A
59 D
60C