Utopia was first printed in:
1615
1516
1517
1518
Correct Answer :
B. 1516
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Ann Hathaway was _________ years older than Shakespeare:
7
8
9
10
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
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parchment made of animal skin
the service owed to a lord by his peasants (villeins)
unrhymed iambic pentameter
an unbreakable oath of fealty
Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
Sir Thomas Malory
Margery Kempe
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Langland
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Ovid
Lucan
Virgil
Horace
In what country is Dr Faustus based?
England
Italy
France
Germany
Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
The Faerie Queene
The shepheaedes Calendar
Complaints
Colin Clouts come home again
Marlowes play Tamburlaine the Great was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?
Zhu Yuanzhang
Genghis Khan
Timur
Kublai Khan
The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:
Letters to the Margret Paston
Margret Paston to John Paston
The Paston letters
To John Paston
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
in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French?
1360
1357
1378
1358
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.
Who wrote following lines:…….. I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
John Milton
Earnest Hemingway
d. H. Lawrence
Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?
Marlowe
Milton
Spencer
Johnson
The use of whale-roadfor sea and life-housefor body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
symbolism
simile
metonymy
kenning
What is Faerie Queene:
An allegory
An epic
A ballad
A sonnet
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
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.
When, is it estimated, was Dr Faustus first performed?
1594
1604
1590
1593
The first regular English comedy, based on the model of the Latin comedy, is attributed to ?
Nicholas Udall
Thomas Colwell
Lord Burghley
None of the above
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.
University Wits were those who:
Had training at two universities
gave curriculum of two universities
Erected two universities
None of the above
From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education? Corpus Christi College
Cambridge
oxford
witternburg
Harvard
which of these is not certain about Chaucer?
his birth date
his death year
his fathers name
None of the above
Marlowe born in________
1562
1563
1564
1565
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
the Gawain poet
the Beowulf poet
Chr�tien de Troyes
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William Shakespeare
Thomas Kyd
John Dryden
John Donne
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
chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for…………..?
beating a friar in a London street
for writing poetry against the church
for crossing the border of Great Britain
None of the above