Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as………?
Chaucers corner
poets corner
legends corner
None of the above
Correct Answer :
B. poets corner
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Satan
Jesus
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Only Adam
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Thomas more
John Lyly
Robert Greene
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a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
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the Normans
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the reign of King Arthur
the coronation of Henry II
King Johns seal of the Magna Carta
the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Dantes Divine Comedy
Boccaccios Decameron
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Chaucers Legend of Good Women
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Colin clouts come home again
Faerie queen, first three books
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Faerie queen, second three books
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Shakespeare
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George Chapman
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Westminster Palace
Tower of London
St. Georges chapel at Windsor
Buckingham Palace
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courtiers entering the service of Richard II
translators of French romances
women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
knights preparing for their first tournament
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26 April 1567
26 April 1566
26 April 1565
26 April 1564
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Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education? Corpus Christi College
Cambridge
oxford
witternburg
Harvard
Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?
Thomas Nah
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Hardy
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Queen Elizabeth
Francis Meres, a lawyer
Burbage, an actor
King James
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They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
Their readers primary language was English.
a and c only
what was the duration of hundred years war?
1300 to 1350
1337 to 1453
1302 to 1343
None of the above
Who wrote Mirror for Magistrates?
Thomas Sacville
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyde
Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?
tenth
eleventh
twelfth
fourteenth
Who wrote The Massacre at Paris?
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
john Milton
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France
Italy
England
Rome
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banishment to Asia
everlasting shame
conversion to Christianity
mild melancholia
Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as………?
Chaucers corner
poets corner
legends corner
None of the above
Faustus servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?
Bach
Schumann
Beethoven
Wagner
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1374 to 1385
1350 to 1360
1360 to 1400
1365 to 1500
Marlow died of?
Illness
stabbing
poisoned
Hanged
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Henry V
Richard III
Edward II
John
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French word
Italian word
Greek word
Spanish word
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two
three
four
five
Shakespeares only son Hamnet died in?
1595
1596
1597
1598