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The Book of the Duchess by Chaucer is a

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lengthy allegory on the death of his patron's wife
a short lyrical story of the Duchess of Wales

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Which work of Chaucer bears a close resemblance to Dante's Divine Comedy

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The House of Fame
The Parliament of Fowls

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Which of the following contains passages directly taken from Chaucer

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The Parliament of Fowls
The Canterbury Tales

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Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer and Pindorous reveal maturity of Chaucer's narrative skills and his dexterity in handling the

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Heoric Couplet
Rhyma Royal

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The very idea of The Canterbury Tales is believed to have been taken from Boccacco's

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Filostrato
Recamerone

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Which of the following is considered to be the first attempt in English to use the Heroic Couplet

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Troilus and Criseyded
The Legend of Good Woemn

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Who said., "Chaucer found English a dialect and left it a language"

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Lowes
Hadow

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Hudson has rightly said that under the influence of Chaucer in English poetry, the rhyme gradually displaced

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free verse
alliteration

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Chaucer used ottava rhyma, the eight syllabic line rhyming in couplets in

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The Book of the Duchess
The Canterbury Tales

Question 10

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In Prologue and Canterbury Tales Chaucer used

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Heroic Couplet
Ottava Rhyma

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The Rhyma Royal which Chaucer used in Troilus and Criseyde is arranged in stanzas consisting ten syllabic lines and having

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Seven lines in each stanza
Ten lines in each stanza

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In the Prologue to the Canerbury Tales the fading chivlary of the Middle ages was represented by the aged Knight while the budding chivlary of the Chaucherean Times was represented by

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The Frair
The Squire

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Chaucher's physician in the Doctor of Physique was heavily dependent on

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modern science
astrology

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Chaucer has been criticized for presenting an incomplete picture of his times because

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he neglected the sufferings of the poor
he overemphasized the rights of the lower class

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Who has been called the Morning Star of the Renaissance?

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Spencer
Chaucer

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a story of

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24 pilgrims
29 pilgrims

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Who has been called by Spenser as "The Well of the English Undefiled"

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Langland
Chaucer

Question 18

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Chaucer introduced Heroic Couplet in English verse and invented the

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Ottava Rhyma
Rhyma Royal

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One of the main drawbacks of Troilus and Criseyde is

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complex characters
long and tiresome speeches

Question 20

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The character of Criseyde is

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a psychological study of a complex woman
a true representative of typical medieval woman

Question 21

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Pandorus is a/an

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obnoxious rouge
comic character

Question 22

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The vision of William Concerning Piers, the plowman is the only extant poem of

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John Gower
W. Langland

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The poet known entirely for Bruce, the supreme national poem of Scotland is

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John Barbour
John Cycliffe

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The poet known entirely for Bruce, the supreme national poem of Scotland is

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John Barbour
John Cycliffe

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