Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
French
Norwegian
Spanish
Hungarian
Correct Answer :
A. French
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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
What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowes father?
Carpenter
Civil servant
Cobbler
Farmer
Paradise lost was lost by:
Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
Which was Marlowes first play?
Dr.Faustus
Tamburlaine
The Tragedy of Dido
The Jew of Malta
John Donnes The Anniversaries is a:
An elegy in two parts
An epic in three parts
A ballad in four parts
None of these
In the tragic history of Doctor Faustus. Faustus was a :
German scholar
French scholar
Spanish scholar
Greek scholar
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
After __________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London.
two
three
four
five
The use of whale-roadfor sea and life-housefor body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?
symbolism
simile
metonymy
kenning
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
Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus character at the beginning of the play?
kind
stupid
sensitive
arrogant
Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during………….?
1374 to 1385
1350 to 1360
1360 to 1400
1365 to 1500
what was the duration of hundred years war?
1300 to 1350
1337 to 1453
1302 to 1343
None of the above
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
Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
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
in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French?
1360
1357
1378
1358
Who wrote Mirror for Magistrates?
Thomas Sacville
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyde
In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the floweringof Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?
Geoffrey of Monmouth
the Gawain poet
the Beowulf poet
Chr�tien de Troyes
Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
the short story
the heroic epic
the morality play
the romance
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
Greville was biographer of:
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
What is the meaning of Renaissance:
Rebirth, revival and re-awaking
Reveal, revel and reverie
Raillery, renunciation and recoup
None of the above
Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
Sir Thomas Malory
Margery Kempe
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Langland
Who born in 1422:
William Caxton
Robert Henry
John Lyly
Thomas more
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
Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
The Faerie Queene
The shepheaedes Calendar
Complaints
Colin Clouts come home again
From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education? Corpus Christi College
Cambridge
oxford
witternburg
Harvard
Chaucer became a page to which kings daughter-in-law?
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV
None of the above