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History of English Literature 1 | Set 1

1. Who is considered as the first English poet?

Correct : B. caedmon

2. Who is the author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People ?

Correct : A. bede

3. Name of the Anglo Saxon epic

Correct : C. beowulf

4. The Hundred Years of War between………..

Correct : A. england and france

5. In which year the peasant Revolt happened?

Correct : A. 1381

6. Who is the author of ‘Piers Plowman’?

Correct : C. william langland

7. The earliest surviving English poem

Correct : D. beowulf

8. Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales?

Correct : B. geoffrey chaucer

9. The Middle Age was held to begin in England with……………

Correct : D. the norman conquest

10. Who led The Norman Conquest?

Correct : B. william the duke of normandy

11. Name of the elegy written by Chaucer on the death of Blanche, the wife of John of Gaunt

Correct : C. the book of the duchess

12. When did ‘The General Prologue’ of Canterbury Tales compose?

Correct : A. 1387.

13. The first English Printer, who set up printing press in 1476

Correct : B. caxton

14. In which year the first printing press was set up in England?

Correct : C. 1476

15. A short traditional and popular story in verse of unknown authorship is called…………

Correct : B. ballad

16. Who wrote Treatise on the Astrolabe?

Correct : D. chaucer

17. Confessio Amentis is the work of……………..

Correct : A. gower

18. The Magna Carta was signed in ………………

Correct : B. 1214

19. Who did start The Hundred Years War with France?

Correct : C. edward iii

20. Which among these was written by Chaucer under Italian influence?

Correct : A. the legend of good women

21. Which incident is considered as the beginning of the Renaissance in England?

Correct : C. end of war of roses

22. In which year did the War of Roses end?

Correct : B. 1485

23. In which year did the Battle of Bosworth Field end?

Correct : D. 1485

24. Which period is considered as the height of English Renaissance?

Correct : C. 1550 – 1600

25. Which were the dominant art forms of English Renaissance?

Correct : A. literature and music

26. Who wrote Astrophel and Stella?

Correct : D. philip sidney

27. Who wrote The Defence of Poesy?

Correct : B. philip sidney

28. Who wrote The Faerie Queene?

Correct : D. edmund spenser

29. Who wrote Tamburlaine the Great?

Correct : B. christopher marlowe

30. Who wrote Hero and Leander?

Correct : A. christopher marlowe

31. Who wrote The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus?

Correct : C. christopher marlowe

32. Who wrote Dido, Queen of Carthage?

Correct : D. christopher marlowe

33. Who popularized the Comedy of Humours?

Correct : B. ben jonson

34. Who wrote the book Utopia?

Correct : D. thomas more

35. Who wrote the essay Of Studies?

Correct : C. francis bacon

36. The King James Version of the Bible was published in _____.

Correct : A. 1611

37. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

Correct : B. 154

38. Find the odd one out.

Correct : A. william shakespeare

39. Who wrote the play Every Man in His Humour?

Correct : D. ben jonson

40. Who wrote the play Bartholomew Fair?

Correct : C. ben jonson