Theme 3: The Literature of the 14th and 15th Centuries. Geoffrey Chaucer.

Question 1

What expressed the sentiments and thoughts of people?

Accepted Answer

Ballads and songs

Question 2

In 1372 where was Chaucer sent?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 3

Who did not care of people’s sufferings?

Accepted Answer

Bishops

Question 4

Which work was considered as a "psychological" novel in England

Accepted Answer

“Troilus and Criseyda”,

Question 5

Where folk poetry flourished in?

Accepted Answer

England and Scotland

Question 6

Who was Geoffrey Chaucer's father?

Accepted Answer

wine merchant

Question 7

"The Legend of Good Women”

Accepted Answer

a dream-poem

Question 8

Whose death was a great blow to English poetry?

Accepted Answer

Chaucer

Question 9

Chaucer planned to include 120 stories in his “The Canterbury Tales” , but he managed...?

Accepted Answer

24

Question 10

“The Parliament of Fowls” (birds)...?

Accepted Answer

an allegorical poem

Question 11

Which dialect was the central dialect, and could be understood throughout the country?

Accepted Answer

London

Question 12

Chaucer’s poetry is generally divided into...periods?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 13

Geoffrey Chaucer's which work was remained unfinished?

Accepted Answer

The Canterbury Tales”

Question 14

Who was one of the three greatest poets in English literature?

Accepted Answer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 15

The city that was the most inhabited and busy town in England?

Accepted Answer

London

Question 16

Who was the author of “The Visions of William Concerning Piers the Ploughman”?

Accepted Answer

William Langland

Question 17

“The House of Fame” is...?

Accepted Answer

a didactic poem

Questions 17