UGC NET English Literature

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is based on _____________.

• Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

• Dante’s Divine Comedy

• Boccaccio’s Decameron

• Montaigne’s Essays

The Norman Conquest took place in the year ___________.

• 1170

• 1066

• 1215

• 1485

The name of the prioress in The Canterbury Tales is _________.

• Eglentyne

• Alison

• Beatrice

• Laura

Piers the Plowman was written by _________.

• John Gower

• William Langland

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Thomas Wyatt

Morte d’ Arthur is a prose romance by ___________.

• Alfred Tennyson

• John Dryden

• John Lyly

• Thomas Malory

Rhyme Royal was introduced into English poetry by __________.

• William Shakespeare

• King James I

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Sir Walter Ralegh

Everyman is an example of a ___________.

• Morality play

• Mystery play

• Miracle play

• Interlude

The Spanish Armada was defeated in the year ________.

• 1755

• 1688

• 1588

• 1455

Gloriana in The Faerie Queene represents ____________.

• Catholic Church

• Queen Elizabeth

• Mary, Queen of Scots

• Anne Boleyn

“Hieronimo is Mad Again” is the sub‐title of ___________.

• The Jew of Malta

• The Duchess of Malfi

• Utopia

• The Spanish Tragedy