Q & A Prologue to the Canterbury Tales By Geoffrey Chaucer

                                                                

                                      Geoffrey Chaucer

                                                      

                                                                    “Love is blind.”

                                                                Geoffrey Chaucer

              

                                                                Quiz#1

                                           Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

                                                     By Geoffrey Chaucer

1. Chaucer made a crucial contribution to English literature in using English at a time when much court poetry was still written in Anglo-Norman or Latin.   T  F

2. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London.                                                          T  F

3. Geoffrey Chaucer was the son of a prosperous wine merchant and deputy to the king's butler, and his wife Agnes.                                                                   T  F

4. Little is known of Geoffrey Chaucer’s early education, but his works show that he could read French, Latin, and Italian.                                                             T  F

5. In 1359-1360 Chaucer went to France with Edward III's army during the Hundred Years' War.                                                                                                     T  F

6. Geoffrey Chaucer was captured in France in the Ardennes and returned to England after the treaty of Brétigny in 1360.                                                 T  F

7. There is no certain information of his life from 1361 until c.1366, when he perhaps married Philippa Roet, the sister of John Gaunt's future wife.         T   F

8. Philippa wife of Chaucer died in 1387 and Chaucer enjoyed Gaunt's patronage

 throughout his life.                                                                                              T   F

9. Between 1367 and 1378 Chaucer made several journeys abroad on diplomatic and commercial missions.                                                                                    T   F

10. In 1385 Chaucer lost his employment and rent-free home, and moved to Kent where he was appointed as justice of the peace.                                           T   F

11. Chaucer was also elected to Parliament.                                                       T   F

12. Around 1385 was a period of great creativity for Chaucer, during which he produced most of his best poetry, among others Troilus and Cressida (c. 1385), based on a love story by Boccaccio.                                                             T   F

13. Chaucer’s first narrative poem, The Book of the Duchess, was probably written shortly after the death of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, first wife of John Gaunt, in September 1369.                                                                                        T   F

14. Chaucer’s next important work, The House of Fame, was written between 1374 and 1385.                                                                                                        T   F

15. Soon afterward Chaucer translated The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, and wrote the poem The Parliament of Birds.                                               T   F

16. Chaucer did not begin working on The Canterbury Tales until he was in his early 40s.                                                                                                                T   F

17. The Canterbury Tales was left unfinished when Chaucer died.                   T   F 
18. The Canterbury Tales depicts a pilgrimage by some 30 people, who are going on a spring day in April to the shrine of the martyr, St. Thomas Becket.          T   F

19. Chaucer died in London on October 25, 1400. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.                                                                                                           T   F 

20. Chaucer was buried in the part of the church, which afterwards came to be called Poet's Corner. A monument was erected to him in 1555.                             T   F

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