Thursday 17 2025

Quiz Chaucer

Anglo-Saxon & Middle English Quiz

Quiz: Geoffrey Chaucer

1. Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the ______ of English poetry.




2. Chaucer wrote *The Canterbury Tales* in which verse form?




3. In *The Canterbury Tales*, how many pilgrims set out on the journey?




4. Which Chaucer work is based on the story of Dido and Aeneas?




5. Which Chaucer poem is an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster?




6. Chaucer introduced which meter into English poetry?




7. The “General Prologue” of *The Canterbury Tales* is written in?




8. Which character in *The Canterbury Tales* tells the first tale?




9. Which Chaucerian work is inspired by Boccaccio’s *Il Filostrato*?




10. In which Chaucer work do birds gather to choose their mates?




11. Which pilgrim is described as “a verray parfit gentil knight”?




12. Which character in *The Canterbury Tales* sells fake relics?




13. Chaucer’s *House of Fame* is a type of?




14. Who interrupts the Monk’s Tale in *The Canterbury Tales*?




15. Which tale is a fabliau with bawdy humor?




16. What is the language of *The Canterbury Tales*?




17. How many tales did Chaucer originally plan for each pilgrim?




18. Which Chaucer work is left unfinished?




19. Which Chaucer poem uses “rhyme royal” stanza?




20. Chaucer is buried in which famous place?




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