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UGC NET English Literature

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is based on _____________.

a)

Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

b)

Dante’s Divine Comedy

c)

Boccaccio’s Decameron

d)

Montaigne’s Essays

2.

The Norman Conquest took place in the year ___________.

a)

1170

b)

1066

c)

1215

d)

1485

3.

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

a)

Eglentyne

b)

Alison

c)

Beatrice

d)

Laura

4.

Piers the Plowman was written by _________.

a)

John Gower

b)

William Langland

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

Thomas Wyatt

5.

Morte d’ Arthur is a prose romance by ___________.

a)

Alfred Tennyson

b)

John Dryden

c)

John Lyly

d)

Thomas Malory

6.

Rhyme Royal was introduced into English poetry by __________.

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

King James I

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

Sir Walter Ralegh

7.

Everyman is an example of a ___________.

a)

Morality play

b)

Mystery play

c)

Miracle play

d)

Interlude

8.

The Spanish Armada was defeated in the year ________.

a)

1755

b)

1688

c)

1588

d)

1455

9.

Gloriana in The Faerie Queene represents ____________.

a)

Catholic Church

b)

Queen Elizabeth

c)

Mary, Queen of Scots

d)

Anne Boleyn

10.

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

a)

The Jew of Malta

b)

The Duchess of Malfi

c)

Utopia

d)

The Spanish Tragedy