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
Correct Answer :
A. Dantes Divine Comedy
Related Questions
what did Chaucers wife use to do?
lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut
nurse of royal court
governess to Henry IV
None of the above
What is Faerie Queene:
An allegory
An epic
A ballad
A sonnet
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
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 of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe?
Henry V
Richard III
Edward II
John
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.
Who wrote Holy Sonnets?
Edmund Spenser
John Donne
Shakespeare
John Milton
During Spencers visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures as__________________ much of his work:
Rosalind
Belinda
Both a and b
None of above
In what country is Dr Faustus based?
England
Italy
France
Germany
which of these kings was not served by Chaucer?
Edward III
Henry II
Richard II
None of the above
The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by:
Wyclif
Thomas more
John Lyly
Robert Greene
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
Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
The Faerie Queene
The shepheaedes Calendar
Complaints
Colin Clouts come home again
Shakespeare is buried inside the:
Westminster Abbey
Trinity Church
Protestant Cemetery
None of above
Who wrote Mirror for Magistrates?
Thomas Sacville
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyde
Who was the first English Christian king?
Alfred
Richard III
Richard II
Ethelbert
What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomews Day Massacre in 1572?
The Massacre at Berlin
The Massacre at Rome
The Massacre at Copenhagen
The Massacre at Paris
On his blindness, a collection of sonnets is written by:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
Shakespeare
Sir Philip Sidney
Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work?
The Rare Triumphs of love and fortune
The Spanish Tragedy
Jeronimo
Cornelia
Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
In Paradise regained who regained the paradise?
Satan
Jesus
Adam and Eve
Only Adam
John Donnes The Anniversaries is a:
An elegy in two parts
An epic in three parts
A ballad in four parts
None of these
After __________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London.
two
three
four
five
Who wrote The Massacre at Paris?
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
john Milton
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.
By Shakespeare had established himself in London as an actor and dramatist:
1590
1591
1592
1593
In the title of Marlowes play, of where was Dido the Queen?
Troy
Carthage
Sparta
Persia
Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?
Marlowe
Milton
Spencer
Johnson
Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
Sir Thomas Malory
Margery Kempe
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Langland
What was vellum?
parchment made of animal skin
the service owed to a lord by his peasants (villeins)
unrhymed iambic pentameter
an unbreakable oath of fealty