TEST - 80

In Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the brooch worn by the Prioress (Madame Eglantine) famously bears which motto?

• Fortuna Fortes
• Amor Vincit Omnia
• Pax et Bonum
• Deus Caritas Est

In Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the Host of the pilgrimage at the Tabard is named:

• Roger
• Jack Straw
• Harry Bailly
• Robin

In Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, which pilgrim is described as playing the bagpipes to lead the group out of town?

• Miller
• Reeve
• Summoner
• Pardoner

In Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the line “If gold rust, what shall iron do?” is associated with which figure?

• Parson
• Friar
• Monk
• Clerk

In Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess (as referenced in the syllabus), the dreamer encounters a Black Knight who chiefly laments the loss of:

• Fortune
• His lady (White)
• His title
• His patron

In Spenser’s Epithalamion, the poem celebrates the poet’s marriage to:

• Mary Sidney
• Elizabeth Boyle
• Frances Walsingham
• Penelope Devereux

In Spenser’s Prothalamion, the recurring refrain that structures the river-side procession is:

• “Still Thames, be calm”
• “Sweet Thames, run softly”
• “Clear Thames, glide gently”
• “Soft Thames, flow slowly”

In Spenser’s Prothalamion, the emblematic birds escorting the brides are:

• Doves
• Swans
• Eagles
• Nightingales

In Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Remembrance (as printed in Tottel’s Miscellany), the poet belongs to the generation that introduced into English which continental form?

• Villanelle
• Sonnet (Petrarchan)
• Sestina
• Rondeau

In Bacon’s essay Of Studies, which pairing completes the triad correctly? “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and __ an exact man.”

• thinking
• writing
• practice
• experience