Multiple choice questions- Chaucer Ans: 30 (including Chaucer)

1)      Who introduced the heroic couplet into
English?
Ans: Chaucer (in the Legend of Good Women)
2)      Who wrote the Book of Duchess?
11)  Which is the first in Canterbury Tales?
Ans: The Knight’s Tale
12)  The Pilgrims went for a pilgrimage to
Canterbury in the month of

Ans: Chaucer Ans: April

3)      Who is referred to as ‘fusion tunic’? 13)  29 Pilgrims came to Tabard Inn at

Ans: Knight Ans: Early in the morning

4)      Madame Eglantine also known as? 14)  How many battle were fought by knight?

Ans: Prioress Ans: 15

5)      Father of English poetry is? 15)  What is the name of the nun?

Ans: Chaucer Ans: Madame Eglantine

6)      Whose name is Huberd? 16)  The Nun speaks _____ fluently

Ans: Friar Ans: French

7)      Who is described as ‘Epicurus Son’?
Ans: Franklin
8)      During Chaucer’s period medicine was
connected with
17)  The young Squire who appears in the
Canterbury Tales is the son of _______
Ans: The Knight
18)  The Yeoman attended on or served whom?

Ans: Astronomy Ans: The Knight

9)      Who called Chaucer as the father of 19)  Who is fond of hunting?
English Poetry?
Ans: The Monk
Ans: Dryden
20)  A sailor appears in the prologue to
10)  How many Pilgrims are there in Canterbury Canterbury Tale. The sailor ship name was
Tales?
Ans: Maudelayne
21)  Who was deaf among the following? Ans: Tabard Inn

Ans: Wife of Bath 31)  The host asked the pilgrims to tell ____
stories when they go to Canterbury
22)  How many times Wife of bath married?
Ans: Two
Ans: 5 times
32)  Who proposed that every pilgrim should tell
23)  How many times Wife of bath went to two stories?
Jerusalem?
Ans: The Host
Ans: 3 times
33)  Who opposed the proposal of the Host?
24)  Which are the tales in “Canterbury Tales”
were written in Prose? Ans: No one

Ans: The Parson’s Tale and Melibus Tale 34)  The Pilgrims started their pilgrimage at

25)  What are the tales told by Chaucer? Ans: Morning

Ans: The Tale of Sir Thopas and The Tale of 35)  “Therefore he loved Gold in special”. The
Melibee word ‘he’ refers to whom?

26)  Which is the longest tale? Ans: The Doctor

Ans: Parson’s Tale 36)  Number of pilgrims including the narration or

in the prologue conterbury tales are

Ans: 30
27)  The Shortest tale is?
37)  How many completed tales are there in the
Ans: Yeoman ???? Canterbury Tales?

28)  Who was Parson’s brother? Ans: 24

Ans: Plowman 38)  What type of Dialect Chaucer used in his

work?
29)  Who always rode last in the group of
pilgrims? Ans: East Midland Dialect

Ans: Reeve (He is a Carpenter) 39)  Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?

30)  The pilgrims Stayed at Ans: To worship the relics of Saint Thomas
Becket
40)  What does the Squire wear?
Ans: Cloth embroidered with flowers
41)  Who marries Emelye in the Knight’s Tale?
Ans: Palamon
42)  According to the Wife of Bath, what do
women most desire?
Ans: Sovereignty over their husbands
43)  What does Chanticleer dream?
Ans: That he will be taken away by an orange,
houndlike creature
44)  Who are the three men searching for in the
Pardoner’s Tale?
Ans: Death
45)  Who is branded by a red-hot poker in the
Miller’s Tale?
Ans: Nicholas
46)  Who gives the brand to the Nicholas?
Ans: Absolon
47)  Which of the following tales is a fabliau?
Ans: The Miller’s Tale
48)  Which pilgrim has a forked beard?
Ans: The Merchant
49)  What is the moral of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Ans: Never trust a flatterer.
50)  What is the Wife of Bath’s Prologue about?
Ans: Her life with her five different husbands
51)  When does The Canterbury Tales take
place?
Ans: In the late fourteenth century
52)  For which social classes did Chaucer write?
Ans: All levels of society
53)  What was Chaucer’s profession?
Ans: Civil servant
54)  How many Canterbury Tales are there?
Ans: 24
55)  What is a romance?
Ans: A story of knights, ladies, quests, and love
56)  Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval
sermon?
Ans: The Pardoner’s Tale
57)  Which pilgrims are most richly attired?
Ans: Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician,
Franklin
58)  Which tales take place in the Orient?
Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale and the Squire’s
Tale
59)  Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with
Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All”?
Ans: The Prioress
60)  At what time of year does the pilgrimage
take place?
Ans: In the height of spring
61)  Which characters are connected to the
Church?
Ans: The Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the
Summoner, and the Pardoner
62)  Which tale is about a talking falcon?
Ans: The Squire’s Tale
63)  Which tales are about the patient suffering of
women?
Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale (Exile of Custance),
the Clerk’s Tale (Ordeal of Griselda), and the
Physician’s Tale (Mercy killing of Virginia)
64)  Why does the Pardoner upset the Host?
Ans: The Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the
pilgrims, after he has already told them that he
cheats people.
65)  In which year Chaucer wrote Canterbury
Tales?
Ans: 1387 to 1400
66)  Who did Arcite who won the fight with
Palamon die?
Ans: He fell from the Horse Riding
67)  Who imprisoned Arcite and Palamon?
Ans: Theseus, the duke of Athens
68)  The characters John and Alayn appear in
the story of _______
Ans: The Reeve’s Tale
69)  The Perkyn who drinks heavily and stays
with his friend’s house and his wife who is a
prostitute appears in the tale of _________
Ans: The Cook’s Tales
70)  Who had Ulcer on his face (shin)?
Ans: The Cook
71)  The conversion of muslims to chrisitians
takes place in the story of _________
Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale.
72)  What is the name of the mother of Sultan
who is killed by her Sultan in the tale of the man
of Law?
Ans: Hermengyld
73)  What is the name of the mother of Alla, the
King of Northumberland who is killed by her son
Alla?
Ans: Donegild
74)  Who is the son born to All and Custance?
Ans: Mauricius
75)  How many lines the prologue of Canterbury
Tales has?
Ans: 858 lines
76)  Which are the unfinished Tales of
Canterbury Tales?
Ans: The Cook’s Tale and Squire’s Tale Ans: Matthew Arnold

77)  Who is Mrs. Sweetbriar? 86)  Who said that Chaucer lacks high
seriousness?
Ans: Madame Eglantine
Ans: Matthew Arnold
78)  The clerk of oxford had twenty books which
were written by ________

Ans: Aristotle

79)  Who says of Chaucer “Here is God’s

Plenty”?

Ans: Dryden

80)  Who criticizes Canterbury Tales as Portrait

Gallary?

Ans: Dryden

81)  Who says of Chaucer, “He must have been

a man of most wonderful comprehensive soul?

Ans: Dryden

82)  Who called Chaucer as the father of English

poetry?

Ans: Dryden

83)  Who called Chaucer as the father of our

splendid English Poetry?

Ans: Matthew Arnold

84)  Who called Chaucer as a perpetual fountain

of good sense?

Ans: Matthew Arnold

85)  Who says of Chaucer, “He will be read far

more generally than he is read now”