TEST - 79

In Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, which pilgrim wears a St. Christopher medal while serving the Knight?

• Yeoman
• Reeve
• Franklin
• Summoner

In Chaucer’s Prologue, the Host who proposes the tale-telling contest is named—

• Roger of Ware
• Harry Bailly
• Jack Straw
• Peter of Lombard Street

In Chaucer’s Prologue, the Prioress’s brooch bears which motto?

• Veritas vincit
• Amor vincit omnia
• Pax et lux
• Deus caritas est

In Chaucer’s Prologue, the Cook’s culinary specialty ironically contrasts with his shin ulcer; the dish is—

• Mortrews
• Blancmange
• Pottage
• Frumenty

In Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, the source tale the narrator reads before sleeping is—

• Orpheus and Eurydice
• Ceyx and Alcyone
• Pyramus and Thisbe
• Apollo and Daphne

Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess chiefly uses which metre?

• Rhyme royal
• Octosyllabic couplets
• Heroic couplets
• Alliterative long lines

Spenser’s Epithalamion celebrates his marriage to—

• Elizabeth Boyle
• Elizabeth Spencer
• Katherine Somerset
• Mary Sidney

In Spenser’s Prothalamion, the refrain invoking the river is—

• “Run, Avon, run softly”
• “Sweet Themmes runne softly”
• “Flow on, O Isis, flow”
• “Still Thames, be calm”

Wyatt’s Remembrance (in the Wyatt–Surrey sonnet tradition) is best linked to his pioneering of—

• Spenserian stanza
• English (Shakespearean) sonnet
• Petrarchan importation
• Ode in Pindarics

Bacon’s essay Of Truth famously opens with a remark on Pilate; the key word Pilate “would not stay for” is—

• Reason
• Law
• Truth
• Peace