Name: AIMS Marks: 25
Roll No: AMAZON INSTITUTE OF METICULOUS STUDIES Time: 15m
Lecture reship Test English
Question No: 1 Choose the correct option.
1. How many languages did Chaucer know?
(a)2 (b)4 (c)1 (d)5
2. From which language the name”chaucer” has been driven?
(a)French (b) Latin (c) Italian (d) English
3. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
(a)Sir Thomas Malory (b) Margery Kemp (c) Geoffrey Chaucer (d) William Langland
4. Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
(a)Latin (b) Dutch (c) French (d) Celtic
5. Who was the first English Christian king
(a)Alfred (b) Richard III (c) Richard II (d) Ethelbert
6. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?
(a)Sir Thomas Malory (b) Geoffrey Chaucer (c) Caedmon (d) John Gower
7. Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
(a)Henry II (b) Henry V (c) Louis XIV (d) Edward III
8. Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of con- ducting business in
Parliament and in court of law?
(a)tenth (b) Twelfth (c)thirteenth (d)fourteenth
9. Which is an exaggeration?
(a)Alliteration (b) Haiku (c) Hyperbole (d) Prose
10. Which of these is magnum opus of Chaucer?
(a)Troilus and Criseyde (b) House of fame (c) The Canterbury tales(d) Parliament of fowls.
11. What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century?
(a)Atheism (b) Protestantism (c) Catholicism (d) Ancestor-worship
12. Who introduced the art of printing into England?
(a)Elizabeth Eisenstein (B) Johannes Gutenberg (c) Henry VIII (d) William Caxton
13. What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century?
(a)Atheism (b) Protestantism (c) Catholicism (d) Ancestor-worship
15. The churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral was well-known for it’s:
(a)ruinous condition (b)performing bears (c)gra@ti. (d)bookshops
16. What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era?
(a) The novel (b) the sermon (c) the familiar essay (d) the diary
17. Who served as Protector under England’s first written constitution?
(a)Gerrard Winstanley (b) Oliver Cromwell (c) Praisegod Barebones (d) George Monk
18. Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humors?
(a)choler (b) Blood (c) Cholesterol (d)black bile
19. Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family?
(a)Ben Jonson (b) Amelia Lanyard (c) Samuel Daniel (d) Mary Wroth
20. Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period?
(a)Othello (b) Volpone (c) King Lear (d) Antony and Cleopatra
21. Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne?
(a)Izaak Walton (b) Katherine Philips (c) John Skelton (d) Isabella Whitney
22. Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I?
(a)gluttonous feasting (b)hard drinking (c)hunting (d)all of the above
23. Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I?
(a)William Shakespeare (b) Ben Jonson (c) John Donne (d) John Milton
24. Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy?
(a) The Fifth Monarchists (b) the Rorer’s (c) the Diggers (d) the Renters