History of English Literature 1 | Set 1
1. Who is considered as the first English poet?
2. Who is the author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People ?
3. Name of the Anglo Saxon epic
4. The Hundred Years of War between………..
5. In which year the peasant Revolt happened?
6. Who is the author of ‘Piers Plowman’?
7. The earliest surviving English poem
8. Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales?
9. The Middle Age was held to begin in England with……………
10. Who led The Norman Conquest?
11. Name of the elegy written by Chaucer on the death of Blanche, the wife of John of Gaunt
12. When did ‘The General Prologue’ of Canterbury Tales compose?
13. The first English Printer, who set up printing press in 1476
14. In which year the first printing press was set up in England?
15. A short traditional and popular story in verse of unknown authorship is called…………
16. Who wrote Treatise on the Astrolabe?
17. Confessio Amentis is the work of……………..
18. The Magna Carta was signed in ………………
19. Who did start The Hundred Years War with France?
20. Which among these was written by Chaucer under Italian influence?
21. Which incident is considered as the beginning of the Renaissance in England?
22. In which year did the War of Roses end?
23. In which year did the Battle of Bosworth Field end?
24. Which period is considered as the height of English Renaissance?
25. Which were the dominant art forms of English Renaissance?
26. Who wrote Astrophel and Stella?
27. Who wrote The Defence of Poesy?
28. Who wrote The Faerie Queene?
29. Who wrote Tamburlaine the Great?
30. Who wrote Hero and Leander?
31. Who wrote The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus?
32. Who wrote Dido, Queen of Carthage?
33. Who popularized the Comedy of Humours?
34. Who wrote the book Utopia?
35. Who wrote the essay Of Studies?
36. The King James Version of the Bible was published in _____.
37. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
38. Find the odd one out.
39. Who wrote the play Every Man in His Humour?
40. Who wrote the play Bartholomew Fair?