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
Correct Answer :
A. John Donne
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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
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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
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two
three
four
five
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
Who translated Utopia in English language:
Thomas More
Thomas lodge
Ralph Robinson
William Tyndale
Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:
About 1611
About 1610
About 1609
About 1608
Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Latin
Dutch
French
English
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
Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as………?
Chaucers corner
poets corner
legends corner
None of the above
Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
Chaucer became a member of Parliament in………..?
1386
1300
1343
1350
What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouths The History of the Kings of Britain?
the reign of King Arthur
the coronation of Henry II
King Johns seal of the Magna Carta
the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
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
Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to
the royal family and upper orders of the nobility
the lower orders of the nobility
agricultural laborers
the clergy
Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces,which of these was not in his charge?
Westminster Palace
Tower of London
St. Georges chapel at Windsor
Buckingham Palace
Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers?
The Pope
The Holy Roman Emperor
The King of England
The King of France
What is Christopher Marlowes Nationality?
British
German
Dutch
American
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
Renaissance first came to the:
France
Italy
England
Rome
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
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 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.
Utopia was first printed in:
1615
1516
1517
1518
Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
The Faerie Queene
The shepheaedes Calendar
Complaints
Colin Clouts come home again
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.
Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during………….?
1374 to 1385
1350 to 1360
1360 to 1400
1365 to 1500
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
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Edmund Spenser
John Donne
Shakespeare
John Milton