This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Geoffrey Chaucer > Geoffrey Chaucer – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Geoffrey Chaucer Quiz 1 (52 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What kind of a writer was Geoffrey Chaucer? A) An American writer, poet, critic, and editor. B) An Italian playwright. C) An English poet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An English poet. 2. Why was Chaucer going to Canterbury A) To visit a friend. B) To visit his mother. C) To visit the tomb of Thomas 'a Beckett. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To visit the tomb of Thomas 'a Beckett. 3. The Prioress spoke A) French. B) Spanish. C) Italian. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) French. 4. His horse was lean and lanky as a rake A) The Prioress. B) The Miller. C) The Knight. D) The Clerk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Clerk. 5. Chaucer was the first poet to be buried in ..... A) Highgate Cemetery. B) Forest Lawn Memorial Park. C) Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. D) Dorset churchyard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. 6. Why is Geoffrey Chaucer called ''Founder of English Literature" ? A) No one has written poems before. B) He wrote in English language first time after Norman conquest. C) His poem was the best. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He wrote in English language first time after Norman conquest. 7. Hardy and big of brawn and big of bone A) The Clerk. B) The Knight. C) The Miller. D) The Prioress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Miller. 8. In what language was The Canterbury Tales written? A) Middle English. B) Old English. C) Modern English. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Middle English. 9. Nuns were forbidden to wear any kind of ornament and yet A) She wore an elegant veil. B) She wore a golden chain. C) She wore a precious rosary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She wore a precious rosary. 10. How many times has the Wife of Bath been married? A) 4. B) 5. C) 6. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 11. Which one of the following works of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written for Blanche of Lancaster? A) The House of Fame. B) The Book of the Duchess. C) Troilus and Criseyde. D) The Legend of Good Women. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Book of the Duchess. 12. In which year Geoffrey Chaucer born? A) 1336. B) 1347. C) 1343. D) 1432. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1343. 13. What is a pilgrimage? A) It's a public festival with food and dance. B) It's a a long or arduous search for something. C) It's a journey to a shrine or a sacred place. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's a journey to a shrine or a sacred place. 14. What was Chaucer's masterpiece? A) The Canterbury Tales. B) Once Upon a Midnight's Dream. C) Tamerlane and Other Poems, Volume I. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Canterbury Tales. 15. Geoffrey Chaucer used what language when writing his books? A) Used Latin when most works were in French. B) Used English when most works were in Latin. C) Used French when most works were in Latin. D) Used English when most works were in French. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Used English when most works were in Latin. 16. When were The Canterbury Tales written? A) Between 1387 and 1400. B) 1393. C) Between 1393 and 1423. D) 1423. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Between 1387 and 1400. 17. When was the first Canterbury Cathedral built? A) 597 AD. B) 1150 AD. C) 1195 AD. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 597 AD. 18. What were the years of Chaucer's birth and death? A) 1343-1400. B) 1595-1643. C) 1801-1845. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1343-1400. 19. Which is Chaucer's best work? A) The Canterbury Tales. B) The Book of the Duchess. C) The House of Fame. D) Troilus and Criseyde. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Canterbury Tales. 20. Which of Chaucer's works is associated with Valentine's Day? A) The Canterbury Tales. B) The Canterbury Tales. C) Parlement of Foules. D) The Book of the Duchess. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parlement of Foules. 21. The Canterbury Tales is an unfinished work, wherein each pilgrim was supposed to tell more than one tale. How many tales did Chaucer originally envision each pilgrim telling? A) One. B) Two. C) Four. D) Six. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Four. 22. The Prioress preferred A) To give charity to poor people. B) To pray for suffering people. C) To feed animals. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To feed animals. 23. What genres are used in ''The Canterbury Tales? " A) Only romance. B) Diverse genres. C) Only fable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diverse genres. 24. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in ..... A) Woolwich, 1323. B) Lewisham, 1323. C) Kensington, 1343. D) London, 1343. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London, 1343. 25. Chaucer descended from two generations of wealthy ..... A) Doctors. B) Writers. C) Vintners. D) Farmers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vintners. 26. Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was considered the grammatica, or ..... A) Language which would not change. B) Dominant language. C) Language for the peasants. D) Medieval language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dominant language. 27. What is ''Canterbury Tales" about? A) Pingrimage. B) Thomas Becket's shrine. C) Storytelling contest. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Storytelling contest. 28. A prologue is ..... A) A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. B) A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.. C) A remembrance speech with the purpose of paying tribute to a loved one. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.. 29. The Wife of Bath says she is an expert when it comes to .....? A) Travel. B) Children. C) Love. D) The Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love. 30. In writing the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer is attempting to ..... A) Present the world through the eyes of the pilgrims. B) Present the world through the eys of the leaders. C) Present the world as he sees it. D) Present the world in a mean and cruel manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Present the world as he sees it. 31. Geoffrey Chaucer is also known as: A) The reformer of English language. B) The father of English literature. C) The poet of English language. D) The father of English language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The father of English literature. 32. What is one of the Wife of Bath's distinctive physical features? A) Very long hair. B) Freckles. C) Fair skin. D) A gap between her teeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A gap between her teeth. 33. Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the Father of ..... and the greatest poet of the Middle Ages. A) French Literature. B) English Poet. C) Story-Writer. D) English Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English Literature. 34. Where was Chaucer from? A) Richmond, Virginia (USA). B) Paris, France. C) London, England. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London, England. 35. What is The Canterbury Tales' prologue about? A) It is a collection of real-life stories by Canterbury pilgrims. B) It is a frame story of a group of thirty people/pilgrims who tell stories as they travel to Canterbury. C) It's an epic poem in 24 books. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is a frame story of a group of thirty people/pilgrims who tell stories as they travel to Canterbury. 36. What role does the religious journey serve in Chaucer's writing? A) Pilgrimage to have fun. B) Display all segments of medieval England. C) Birthday celebration for his friend. D) To begin writing career. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Display all segments of medieval England. 37. Chaucer died on ..... A) 24 October, 1400. B) 14 October, 1400. C) 25 October, 1400. D) 6 October, 1400. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 25 October, 1400. 38. In what season are pilgrimages? A) Winter. B) Summer. C) Autumn. D) Spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spring. 39. Characters in ''Canterbury Tales" are A) The aristocrats. B) The clergy. C) The people from all walks of life. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The people from all walks of life. 40. What were the "Three Estates" of Medieval Anglo-European Culture? A) The poor, the wealthy, the religious. B) Aristocracy, middle-class, slaves. C) Those who work, those who fight, those who pray. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Those who work, those who fight, those who pray. 41. Which book was unfinished at Chaucer's death? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 42. In which year did Chaucer fought in Hundred Years' War between France and England? A) 1367. B) 1382. C) 1359. D) 1374. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1359. 43. Her demeanour was so pleasant, and so warm A) Though she came from a lower social class. B) Though she imitated the court manners. C) Though she was an elegant woman. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Though she imitated the court manners. 44. What is the greatest example of a narrative poem? A) Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The book of the Duchess'. B) Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Tale of Canterbury '. C) Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Legende of the good Women'. D) Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'. 45. Who was the king when Geoffrey Chaucer was born? A) Richard II. B) David II. C) Edward III. D) Edward II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edward III. 46. Which of these writers did not belong to ''Middle English Literature" ? A) Venerable Bede ''Ecclesiastical History of Anglo Saxon People". B) Geoffrey Chaucer ''Canterbury Tales". C) Geoffrey of Monmouth ''History of kings of Britain". D) Sir Thomas Malory ''King Arthur's Death". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venerable Bede ''Ecclesiastical History of Anglo Saxon People". 47. When did Chaucer begin writing the Canterbury Tales? A) 1066. B) 1400. C) 1336. D) 1387. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1387. 48. During the period of which king did Chaucer fight in the English Army for the Hundred Years' War between France and England? A) William II. B) Edward III. C) Edward II. D) William I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edward III. 49. Chaucer was born A) October 31, 1325. B) I don't know. C) October 2, 1355. D) October 22, 1345. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I don't know. 50. The Prioress sang the divine service prettily however A) She had a nasal voice. B) She had a beautiful voice. C) She had a shrill voice. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She had a nasal voice. 51. What was the prize for who told the best story? A) Dinner. B) Drink. C) Lunch. D) Dessert. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dinner. 52. Which is the first major work of Geoffrey Chaucer? A) Troilus and Criseyde. B) The Canterbury Tales. C) The Book of the Duchess. D) The House of Fame. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Book of the Duchess. Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature Quizzes 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books