TEST - 81

While noting the social canvas of Chaucer’s “General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, which London location is precisely named as the pilgrims’ starting point?

• Cheapside
• Southwark
• Aldgate
• Bishopsgate

In Chaucer’s “General Prologue”, which pilgrim is explicitly associated with the motto “Amor vincit omnia” worn on a brooch?

• The Prioress
• The Wife of Bath
• The Squire
• The Nun’s Priest

In Chaucer’s “General Prologue”, the Host who proposes the storytelling contest at the Tabard is named—

• Jack Straw
• John of Gaunt
• Harry Bailly
• Nicholas

In “The Book of the Duchess” (Chaucer), the dreamer’s interlocutor mourns “White”; which historical figure is commonly linked to “White”?

• Blanche of Lancaster
• Joan of Kent
• Philippa of Hainault
• Anne of Bohemia

In Spenser’s “Epithalamion”, the poet’s bride named in biographical context is—

• Elizabeth Boyle
• Mary Herbert
• Katherine Somerset
• Frances Walsingham

In Spenser’s “Prothalamion”, the refrain that frames the Thames setting is—

• “Sweet Thames, run softly”
• “Flow gently, sweet Afton”
• “O Western wind, when wilt thou blow”
• “O fons Bandusiae”

Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poem “Remembrance” most closely employs which metrical lineage typical of his court lyrics?

• Skeltonics
• Italianate sonnet measure
• Sapphics
• Pindarics

In Bacon’s “Of Studies” (as listed among the Essays), which triad of uses is famously given?

• Profit, Pleasure, Policy
• Delight, Ornament, Ability
• Counsel, Judgment, Action
• Wit, Wisdom, Will

In Bacon’s “Of Truth”, Pilate’s question is cited to dramatize skepticism. Which Gospel is evoked?

• Matthew
• Mark
• Luke
• John

Sidney’s “An Apology for Poetry” asserts poetry’s superiority partly because it—

• Presents “what is,” like history
• Teaches by delighting with “what may be”
• Proves by syllogism as philosophy
• Renounces imitation