which of these kings was not served by Chaucer?
Edward III
Henry II
Richard II
None of the above
Correct Answer :
B. Henry II
Related Questions
Chaucer became a page to which kings daughter-in-law?
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV
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
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
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.
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
Through his magic, Faustus is visited first by which of the devils angels?
Mephastophilis
beelzebub
Aamon
None of the above
Which was Marlowes first play?
Dr.Faustus
Tamburlaine
The Tragedy of Dido
The Jew of Malta
William Shakespeare born in:
26 April 1567
26 April 1566
26 April 1565
26 April 1564
Who wrote Holy Sonnets?
Edmund Spenser
John Donne
Shakespeare
John Milton
Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during………….?
1374 to 1385
1350 to 1360
1360 to 1400
1365 to 1500
One of Marlowes earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem Pharsalia, written by which Roman poet?
Ovid
Lucan
Virgil
Horace
Paradise lost was lost by:
Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education? Corpus Christi College
Cambridge
oxford
witternburg
Harvard
When, is it estimated, was Dr Faustus first performed?
1594
1604
1590
1593
Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Latin
Dutch
French
English
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.
which of these kings was not served by Chaucer?
Edward III
Henry II
Richard II
None of the above
Shakespeare is buried inside the:
Westminster Abbey
Trinity Church
Protestant Cemetery
None of above
University Wits were those who:
Had training at two universities
gave curriculum of two universities
Erected two universities
None of the above
which of these is not certain about Chaucer?
his birth date
his death year
his fathers name
None of the above
In Paradise regained who regained the paradise?
Satan
Jesus
Adam and Eve
Only Adam
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?
embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
repetition of parallel syntactic structures
ironic understatement
stress on every third diphthong
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.
Philip Sidney was born on 30th November:
1553
1554
1555
1550
Renaissance first came to the:
France
Italy
England
Rome
The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by:
Wyclif
Thomas more
John Lyly
Robert Greene
Who wrote Mirror for Magistrates?
Thomas Sacville
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyde
Who born in 1422:
William Caxton
Robert Henry
John Lyly
Thomas more
Renaissance is a:
French word
Italian word
Greek word
Spanish word