Deck 1: English Literature and History Trivia

Question 1

Who is considered as the first English poet?

A)chaucer
B)caedmon
C)william langland
D)robert burns

Answer 1

caedmon

Question 2

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

A)bede
B)chaucer
C)johnson
D)bacon

Answer 2

bede

Question 3

Name of the Anglo Saxon epic

A)the wanderer
B)dream of the rood
C)beowulf
D)brut

Answer 3

beowulf

Question 4

In which year the peasant Revolt happened?

A)1381
B)1300
C)1350
D)1400

Question 5

Who is the author of 'Piers Plowman'?

A)caedmon
B)bede
C)william langland
D)layamon

Question 6

The earliest surviving English poem

A)king horn
B)piers plowman
C)brut
D)beowulf

Question 7

Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales?

A)william langland
B)geoffrey chaucer
C)robert burn
D)spenser

Question 8

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

A)hundred years war
B)peasant revolt
C)black death
D)the norman conquest

Question 9

Who led The Norman Conquest?

A)james i
B)william the duke of normandy
C)julius caesar
D)william wycliffe

Question 10

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

A)the house of fame
B)troilus and criseyde
C)the book of the duchess
D)the roman de la rose

Question 11

When did 'The General Prologue' of Canterbury Tales compose?

A)1387.
B)1300
C)1400
D)1378

Question 12

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

A)gower
B)caxton
C)william bailey
D)malory

Question 13

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

A)1400
B)1569
C)1476
D)1430

Question 14

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

A)lyric
B)ballad
C)elegy
D)sonnet

Question 15

Who wrote Treatise on the Astrolabe?

A)john wycliffe
B)spenser
C)william langland
D)chaucer

Question 16

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

A)gower
B)chaucer
C)william langland
D)robert burn

Question 17

Who did start The Hundred Years War with France?

A)edward 1
B)edward 11
C)edward iii
D)edward iv

Question 18

Which among these was written by Chaucer under Italian influence?

A)the legend of good women
B)roman de la rose
C)the book of duchess
D)the canterbury tales

Question 19

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

A)reign of queen elizabeth
B)death of chaucer
C)end of war of roses
D)birth of shakespeare

Question 20

In which year did the War of Roses end?

A)1500
B)1485
C)1600
D)1450

Question 21

In which year did the Battle of Bosworth Field end?

A)1499
B)1510
C)1575
D)1485

Question 22

Which period is considered as the height of English Renaissance?

A)1500 - 1550
B)1450 - 1500
C)1550 - 1600
D)1600 - 1650

Question 23

Which were the dominant art forms of English Renaissance?

A)literature and music
B)painting and sculpture
C)cinema and drama
D)singing and dancing