He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.
18, 1582
17, 1581
16, 1580
15, 1579
Correct Answer :
A. 18, 1582
Related Questions
Ann Hathaway was _________ years older than Shakespeare:
7
8
9
10
Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry?
Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed.
In what country is Dr Faustus based?
England
Italy
France
Germany
Who translated Utopia in English language:
Thomas More
Thomas lodge
Ralph Robinson
William Tyndale
What does Faustus promise to the devil in exchange for great knowledge, riches and power for a period of 24 years?
his body
his house
his soul
his horse
what was the duration of hundred years war?
1300 to 1350
1337 to 1453
1302 to 1343
None of the above
Renaissance is a:
French word
Italian word
Greek word
Spanish word
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
Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for
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
Which twelfth-century poet or poets were indebted to Breton storytellers for their narratives?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chrétien de Troyes
a and c only
b and c only
William Shakespeare born in:
26 April 1567
26 April 1566
26 April 1565
26 April 1564
In the title of Marlowes play, of where was Dido the Queen?
Troy
Carthage
Sparta
Persia
Who wrote Holy Sonnets?
Edmund Spenser
John Donne
Shakespeare
John Milton
Paradise lost was lost by:
Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
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
What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?
the Battle of Agincourt
the Battle of Hastings
the Norman Conquest
the War of the Roses
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.
The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by:
Wyclif
Thomas more
John Lyly
Robert Greene
Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during………….?
1374 to 1385
1350 to 1360
1360 to 1400
1365 to 1500
Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:
About 1611
About 1610
About 1609
About 1608
On his blindness, a collection of sonnets is written by:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
Shakespeare
Sir Philip Sidney
Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus character at the beginning of the play?
kind
stupid
sensitive
arrogant
In whose reign Morality plays began?
Henry five
Elizabeth one
Henry six
Henry eight
Faustus servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?
Bach
Schumann
Beethoven
Wagner
Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as………?
Chaucers corner
poets corner
legends corner
None of the above
Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true?
She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
She was a virgin martyr.
She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.
She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.
Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with:
nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
bewilderment and visceral loathing.
admiration and elegiac sympathy.
bigotry and shallow triumphalism.
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
French
Norwegian
Spanish
Hungarian
one of Chaucers daughter was…………?
a musician
an astronomer
a nun
None of the above