Who wrote The Massacre at Paris?
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
john Milton
Correct Answer :
B. Christopher Marlowe
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1386
1300
1343
1350
Shakespeares only son Hamnet died in?
1595
1596
1597
1598
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women who have chosen to live as religious recluses
knights preparing for their first tournament
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Robert Greene
John Milton
Philip Sidney
Christopher Marlowe
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his body
his house
his soul
his horse
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
the Gawain poet
the Beowulf poet
Chr�tien de Troyes
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France
Italy
England
Rome
Astrophel and Stella is a:
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Epic
Sonnet
Ballad
In what country is Dr Faustus based?
England
Italy
France
Germany
Who wrote The Massacre at Paris?
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
john Milton
Chaucer became a page to which kings daughter-in-law?
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV
None of the above
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.
46How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil?
16
20
24
28
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embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
repetition of parallel syntactic structures
ironic understatement
stress on every third diphthong
Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance:
14 th
15 th
16 th
14 th and 16 th
He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.
18, 1582
17, 1581
16, 1580
15, 1579
Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as………?
Chaucers corner
poets corner
legends corner
None of the above
what was the occupation of Chaucers father?
leather merchant
civil servant
a vintner
None of the above
Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
French
Norwegian
Spanish
Hungarian
Who wrote Mirror for Magistrates?
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Thomas Wyatt
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyde
Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
Bede
Sir Thomas Malory
Geoffrey Chaucer
Caedmon
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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
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Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
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An elegy in two parts
An epic in three parts
A ballad in four parts
None of these
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Faerie queen, first three books
The Shepherds calendar
Faerie queen, second three books
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beating a friar in a London street
for writing poetry against the church
for crossing the border of Great Britain
None of the above
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Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
one of Chaucers daughter was…………?
a musician
an astronomer
a nun
None of the above