Chaucer was released from legal action by …………………… in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction?
Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
Philippa de Roet of Flanders
Agnes de Copton
None of the above
Correct Answer :
A. Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
Related Questions
which of these is not certain about Chaucer?
his birth date
his death year
his fathers name
None of the above
Marlowes play Tamburlaine the Great was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?
Zhu Yuanzhang
Genghis Khan
Timur
Kublai Khan
In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the floweringof Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?
Geoffrey of Monmouth
the Gawain poet
the Beowulf poet
Chr�tien de Troyes
Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Bede
Sir Thomas Malory
Geoffrey Chaucer
Caedmon
Which of the following authors is considered a devotee to chivalry, as it is personified in Sir Lancelot?
Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
William Langland
Sir Thomas Malory
Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of the devils angels?
Mephastophilis
beelzebub
Aamon
None of the above
Who wrote Mirror for Magistrates?
Thomas Sacville
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyde
In Marlowes play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta?
Lazarus
Solomon
Barabas
Shylock
Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance:
14 th
15 th
16 th
14 th and 16 th
Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Latin
Dutch
French
English
Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?
Thomas Nah
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Hardy
What is the meaning of Renaissance:
Rebirth, revival and re-awaking
Reveal, revel and reverie
Raillery, renunciation and recoup
None of the above
Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus character at the beginning of the play?
kind
stupid
sensitive
arrogant
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:
the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
the Norman Conquest of 1066.
the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
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
How did Henry II, the first of Englands Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?
the Battle of Hastings
Saint Patricks mission
the Fourth Lateran Council
his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Marlowes poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love begins with the line Come live with me and be my love; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line?
William Shakespeare
Thomas Kyd
John Dryden
John Donne
Utopia was first printed in:
1615
1516
1517
1518
Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
The common people were still essentially pagan.
They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.
In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
banishment to Asia
everlasting shame
conversion to Christianity
mild melancholia
Faustus servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?
Bach
Schumann
Beethoven
Wagner
The Prince Of Poets in his time, on whom grave the inscription is given?
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers?
Colin clouts come home again
Faerie queen, first three books
The Shepherds calendar
Faerie queen, second three books
Greville was biographer of:
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
the short story
the heroic epic
the morality play
the romance
Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:
About 1611
About 1610
About 1609
About 1608
By Shakespeare had established himself in London as an actor and dramatist:
1590
1591
1592
1593
Renaissance is a:
French word
Italian word
Greek word
Spanish word
At what famous university is Faustus a scholar?
Wittenburg
Sorbonne
Heidelberg
Cambridge
Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
Dantes Divine Comedy
Boccaccios Decameron
The Dream of the Rood
Chaucers Legend of Good Women