Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
Henry II
Henry III
Henry V
Edward III
Correct Answer :
D. Edward III
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Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
The Faerie Queene
The shepheaedes Calendar
Complaints
Colin Clouts come home again
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
Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
Who translated Utopia in English language:
Thomas More
Thomas lodge
Ralph Robinson
William Tyndale
Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557?
Thomas Nah
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Hardy
What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?
Boethiuss Consolidation of Philosophy
Saint Jeromes translation of the Bible
Malorys Morte Darthur
a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert
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
Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
Sir Thomas Malory
Margery Kempe
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Langland
The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200?
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
Marlowe born in________
1562
1563
1564
1565
In what country is Dr Faustus based?
England
Italy
France
Germany
Who wrote The Massacre at Paris?
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
john Milton
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.
18, 1582
17, 1581
16, 1580
15, 1579
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
Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Latin
Dutch
French
English
Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
Henry II
Henry III
Henry V
Edward III
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
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.
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
Who was the first English Christian king?
Alfred
Richard III
Richard II
Ethelbert
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
Shakespeare is buried inside the:
Westminster Abbey
Trinity Church
Protestant Cemetery
None of above
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
Faustus servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?
Bach
Schumann
Beethoven
Wagner
Which of the Marlowes plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash?
Queen of Carthage and The passionate Shepherd.
The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage.
The passionate Shepherd and The tragedy of Dido.
Queen of Carthage and The Massacre of Paris.
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
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
In Marlowes play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta?
Lazarus
Solomon
Barabas
Shylock
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.