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Age of Chaucer PYQs English UGC-NET
1. Which Canterbury pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with the Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All”?
2. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary?
3. From among the Canterbury pilgrims, which group would qualify as the ‘upper class’?
4. John Lydgate begins his Siege of Thebes with a prologue of 176 lines in which he imagines himself joining Chaucer’s pilgrims in Canterbury, where he speaks with the Host and agrees to tell the first tale on homeward journey. The story that Lydgate tells as the pilgrims depart from Canterbury is meant to be a companion piece to:
5. In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two characters are examples of deep Christian goodness?
Characters:
I. the Summoner
II. the Parson
III. the Ploughman
IV. the Pardoner
6. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all:
7. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy?
8. “For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special” relates to Chaucer’s
9. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is
10. Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles is in part
Elements:
(I) a puzzle
(II) a debate
(III) a threnody
(IV) a beast fable
11. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales?
12. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?
13. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?
14. Arrange the following authors in the chronological order of their birth:
Authors:
A. Oscar Wilde
B. William Langland
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. John Dryden
E. Alexander Pope
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
15. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
16. “She was a worthy woman al hir lyve, Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve,” In the ‘Prologue’ Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as:
She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,
Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve,
Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve,
Characteristics:
I. crude and vulgar
II. outspoken and boastfully licentious
III. a witness to masculine oppression
IV. bubbling with vitality
Find the correct combination according to the code:
17. The Wife of Bath’s philosophy of marriage shows that she
18. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?
19. How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living?
20. How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Good Women?
21. “Out of the gosple he tho words caughte And this figure he added eek therto, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?” In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a man:
“Out of the gosple he tho words caughte
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?”
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?”
Characteristics:
1. who loved money
2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
3. who practiced what he preached
4. who was a poor but honest clerk
Find the correct combination according to the code:
22. John Dryden described a major English poet as “a rough diamond, and must first be polished ere he shines…..” Identify him:
23. Chaucer satirizes the Monk because the Monk:
24. What is the moral of “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”?
25. What narrative perspective does Chaucer employ in the opening of “The General Prologue”?
26. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the three estates?
27. The seven deadly sins are sought to be portrayed in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Which of the following sins is not covered by Chaucer?
Sins:
I. Jealousy
II. Envy
III. Lust
IV. Homicide
The right combination according to the code is:
28. In Canterbury Tales who has a red face full of sores?
29. Which of the following is true of The Canterbury Tales?
30. One of the less noticed and acknowledged distinction of The Canterbury Tales is that
31. Chaucer’s first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of …………….
32. In which one of the following Middle English poems is Hector a character?
33. Which three of the following poets figure in William Dunbar’s lament for the makers?
Poets:
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer
(b) John Gower
(c) Robert Henryson
(d) William Langland
Choose the most appropriate option:
34. Which of the following tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales deals with the murder of a child by Jews?
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