ELCE UNIT I

Chaucer has been hailed as

• The morning star of Reformation

• The morning star of Renaissance

• The morning star of Neo-classical

• The morning star of Medievalism

The prologue to the Canterbury Tales gives the portrait of

• thirty pilgrims

• twenty pilgrims

• twenty five pilgrims

• thirty five pilgrims

Francis Bacon is known as great writer because of his

• New Atlantis

• History of Henry VIII

• Advancement of Learning

• Essays

Dr. Faustus is

• a world conqueror

• is in pursuit of universal knowledge

• having fabulous dreams of wealth

• a shepherd turned conqueror

The Arcadia was written by

• John Lyly

• Surrey

• Sidney

• Spenser

Amoretti is a collection of

• Sonnets

• Stories

• Jokes

• Dramas

Chaucer measures the pilgrimage in his prologue on

• political, social and religious scales

• fatness, corruption and dress

• land, water and air

• eating, sleeping and dressing

The authorised version of the Bible was a work by

• John Donne and James I

• a group of scholars, nominated by James I

• a set of patriots presided by James I

• James I and his courtiers

Which is true of Dr. Faustus?

• Tamberlaine succeeded Doctor Faustus

• It is the story of the alchemist who sells his souls to the Devil

• It is the story of a Scythian Shepherd obsessed with power

• It is the story of an avaricious Jew

The man who supplied the first element of English translation of the Bible was

• Coverdale

• Tyndale

• Wyclif

• Chaucer