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Of bretherhede while that hir life may dure

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To seen hir granges and hir bernes wide

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“Namore,” quod she, “... God, ye have enough!”

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Full riche was his tresor and his hoord

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As she was wont of old usage algate

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But natheless, I took unto our dame

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The sum of gold, and gat of hem his bond

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He not forgat to yive the leeste page

...all that house; but after hir degree

He yaf the lord and sithen all his meinee

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Upon your bench. She wot it well, certain

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..you, my wife, although it be me loth

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“Nece,” quod he, “it ought enough suffise

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Now by your leve, I may no lenger dwelle

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A messager, and prayed hath Daun John

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Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A meditation on the nature of love and of human ... in particular, it is based on Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato and is Chaucer’s longest complete poem

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Although Philippa died in 13... Chaucer enjoyed Gaunt’s patronage throughout his life

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And he adds to the fun by making the whole a ... of the knight’s tale

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And he tells the whole in a deadly (ужасный) ... filled with cliches

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Begun sometime around 1386–..., The Canterbury Tales is one of the great literary achievements of the Middle Ages, although Chaucer never completed this immense project

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But it should be understood that there were good metrical romances ... well – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight being the greatest

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: By the ... century, however, the form and subject of romance had become sadly debased

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Chaucer became a knight of the ... of Kent in 1386

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Chaucer became a knight of the shire of Kent in 1386 and probably lived in Kent for much of the ... of his life

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Chaucer is content to have his fun briefly at the expense of middle-... romances and be done-hence the Host’s interruption

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Chaucer wrote The book of the Duchess, a dream-poem, about 1...70

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Chaucer’s art in the Miller’s tale lies in his combining two tales, that of the “second flood” and that (as it is politely called) of the “misdirected ...”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Chaucer’s burlesque takes an effiminate and cowardly hero, attributes to him decidedly middle-class characteristics, sets him off ... for an elf-queen

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Chaucer’s high favour with the Crown was ...

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Chaucer’s high favour with the Crown was shown when the king ... part of his ransom in 1360 after his capture while fighting in France

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–14...)

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400). Poet, translator, courtier, diplomat and civil servant, Chaucer radically transformed the ... of narrative poetry and is best remembered for his great works The Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Geoffrey Chaucer was ... in London, the son of vintner, sometime between 1339 and 1346. In 1357 he served with Lionel, son of the reigning king, Edward III

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of ..., sometime between 1339 and 1346

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He also wrote 55 ... lyrics and his prose works include a translation of Boethius and A Treatise on the Astrolabe

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He combines them in such a way that the climax of both occurs at once – with the ... of “Water!”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He held a number of positions at ... and in the king’s service

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He held a number of positions at court and in the king’s service, and travelled abroad on numerous occasions on diplomatic missions, often to France and ...

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He may ... met Boccaccio and Petrachio

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He travelled abroad on numerous occasions on diplomatic missions, often to ... and Italy

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He visited Genoa and ... during 1372–1373

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He visited Genoa and Florence during 1372–13... and may have met Boccaccio and Petrachio

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He was buried in Poet’s corner at Westminster Abbey where a monument was erected to him in 15...

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Hence the idealism of romance came to be tailored (приспособлен) for a middle-class mentality, and the form ... became tedious and cliche

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His choice of story ranges from those he had heard – such as tales of low life in oral circulation – to what he read in Boccaccio, or other classic masters, or in the lives of ...

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His last official position was deputy forester in the King’s Forest at Petherton in ...

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In 1357 he served with Lionel, son of the ... king, Edward III

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In writers like Sercamby, Boccaccio, and Chaucer they gain literary ...

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was supposed to be the other way around, the elf-... finding him

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It’s basis was the French tradition of the dream as a vehicle for love poetry and it is believed to be an allegorical lament on the death of Blanche of Lancaster, the first wife of John of Gaunt, who had died the previous ...

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: One of the Chaucer’s many innovations was to suit the stile of the story to the individual ..., greatly adding to the psychological variety and dramatic vigour of the tales

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Poet, translator, courtier, diplomat and civil servant, Chaucer radically transformed the art of narrative ... and is best remembered for his great works The Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Possibly around 1366, he ... Fhilippa

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Possibly around 1366, he married Fhilippa, the sister of John of Gaunt’s ... wife

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Romance ... had an aristocratic heritage, and in this Chaucer was well scooled

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sir Thopas is often ...with Don Quixote, but Cervantes’ work comments profoundly upon the nature of human life itself

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Stories of heroic knights, set in a sing-song rhyme scheme, were ...

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Such tales were told ... and passed by word of mouth, but some – a good many all told – were written down

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The Miller’s tale is a “fabliau” – a comic tale, reflecting the life of ... people

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The best ... to see the humour of Sir Thopas is to read one of its prototypes – Guy of Warwick, for example

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The house of Fame, an unfinished dream-poem, was composed some time between 13... and 1385 and is thought to be his last poem in the French form

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The tale of Sir Thopas is a ... of the metrical romances

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: To quote the poet John Dryden, ‘Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is ...’s plenty.’

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Troilus and Criseyde, his first masterpiece, was completed between 1380 and 13...

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: the Knight’s tale is a high-minded romance, and Troilus and Criseyde is often called the greatest of ...

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A meditation on the nature of love and of human love in particular, it is based on Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato and is Chaucer’s longest complete poem. He also ... short lyrics and his prose works include a translation of Boethius and A Treatise on the Astrolabe

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Although Philippa died in 1387 Chaucer ... Gaunt’s patronage throughout his life.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Begun sometime around 1386–1387, The Canterbury Tales is one of the great literary achievements of the Middle Ages, although Chaucer never completed this ... project. One of the Chaucer’s many innovations was to suit the stile of the story to the individual teller, greatly adding to the psychological variety and dramatic vigour of the tales

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: By the fourteen century, however, the form and subject of romance had become sadly .... Stories of heroic knights, set in a sing-song rhyme scheme, were recited by minstrels for audiences of middle-class burghers

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Chaucer wrote The book of the Duchess, a dream-poem, about 1370. It’s basis was the French tradition of the dream as a ... for love poetry and it is believed to be an allegorical lament on the death of Blanche of Lancaster, the first wife of John of Gaunt, who had died the previous year

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Chaucer’s high favor with the Crown was ... when the king paid part of his ransom in 1360 after his capture while fighting in France.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400). Poet, translator, courtier, diplomat and civil servant, Chaucer ... transformed the art of narrative poetry

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of vintner, ... between 1339 and 1346.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He visited Genoa and Florence during 1372–1373 and may have ... Boccaccio and Petrachio.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hence the idealism of romance came to be ... for a middle-class mentality, and the form itself became tedious and cliche

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His choice of story ranges from those he had heard – such as tales of low life in oral circulation – to what he read in Boccaccio, or other classic ..., or in the lives of saints. To quote the poet John Dryden, ‘Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God’s plenty.’

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His last official ... was deputy forester in the King’s Forest at Petherton in Somerset

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The best way to see the humour of Sir Thopas is to read one of its prototypes – Guy of Warwick, for example. But it should be understood that there were good metrical romances ... – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight being the greatest

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The house of Fame, an unfinished dream-poem, was composed some time between 1374 and 1385 and is thought to be his last poem in the French form. Troilus and Criseyde, his first masterpiece, was ... between 1380 and 1385

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The tale of Sir Thopas is a ... of the metrical romances. Romance itself had an aristocratic heritage, and in this Chaucer was well scooled: the Knight’s tale is a high-minded romance, and Troilus and Criseyde is often called the greatest of romances

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: To ... the poet John Dryden, ‘Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God’s plenty.’

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel:Chaucer became a knight of the shire of Kent in 1386 and probably ... in Kent for much of the rest of his life

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel:He held a number of positions at court and in the king’s service, and ... abroad on numerous occasions on diplomatic missions, often to France and Italy

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel:In 1357 he served with Lionel, son of the ... king, Edward III

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel:Possibly around 1366, he ... Fhilippa, the sister of John of Gaunt’s third wife

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: ... the idealism of romance came to be tailored (приспособлен) for a middle-class mentality, and the form itself became tedious (скучный, утомительный) and cliche

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A meditation on the nature of love and of human love in particular, it is ... on Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato and is Chaucer’s longest complete poem

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And he tells the whole in a ... singsong filled with cliches

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Begun sometime around 1386–1387, The Canterbury Tales is one of the great literary achievements of the Middle Ages, although Chaucer never completed this ... project

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: By the fourteen century, however, the form and subject of romance had become sadly ...

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Chaucer is content to have his fun briefly at the expense of middle-class ...

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Chaucer wrote The book of the Duchess, a dream-poem, ... 1370

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Chaucer’s art in the Miller’s tale ... in his combining two tales

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Chaucer’s burlesque attributes to him decidedly middle-class ..., sets him off looking for an elf-queen (it was supposed to be the other way around, the elf-queen finding him)

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Chaucer’s burlesque takes an effiminate and cowardly ...

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He also ... short lyrics and his prose works include a translation of Boethius and A Treatise on the Astrolabe

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He combines them in such a way that the ... of both occurs at once

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was ... in Poet’s corner at Westminster Abbey

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His choice of story ranges from those he had heard – such as tales of low life in oral circulation – to what he read in Boccaccio, or other classic ..., or in the lives of saints

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In writers like Sercamby, Boccaccio, and Chaucer they gain literary ...

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It’s basis was the French tradition of the dream as a ... for love poetry and it is believed to be an allegorical lament on the death of Blanche of Lancaster

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: One of the Chaucer’s many innovations was to suit the stile of the story to the individual teller, greatly adding to the psychological ... and dramatic vigour of the tales

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Romance itself had an aristocratic ..., and in this Chaucer was well scooled

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Sir Thopas is ... compared with Don Quixote, but Cervantes’ work comments profoundly upon the nature of human life itself

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Stories of heroic knights, set in a sing-song rhyme scheme, were ... by minstrels for audiences of middle-class burghers

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Such tales were told ... and passed by word of mouth

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The Miller’s tale is a “fabliau” – a comic ..., reflecting the life of common people

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The best ... to see the humour of Sir Thopas is to read one of its prototypes – Guy of Warwick, for example

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The house of Fame, an unfinished dream-poem, was ...some time between 1374 and 1385 and is thought to be his last poem in the French form

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The tale of Sir Thopas is a ... of the metrical romances

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Troilus and Criseyde, his first masterpiece, was ... between 1380 and 1385

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: a monument was ... to him in 1555

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: he adds to the fun by making the whole a parody of the knight’s ...

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: it should be understood that there were good metrical romances ... – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight being the greatest

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: the Knight’s tale is a high-minded romance, and Troilus and Criseyde is ... called the greatest of romances

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: (to aquaint) was so with the goode man

Sith that hir firste knowliche began

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A marchant whilom (to dwell) at Saint Denis

That riche was, for which men held him wis

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A wife he (to have) of excellent beautee, and compaignable and revelous was she

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And I shall pay as soon as ever I (may);

For by my truth I have on mine array

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And for as muchel as this goode man,

And eek this monk of which that I (to begin)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And home he goth, murry as a papinjay.

For well he knew he (to stand) in swich array

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And if that he not may, paraventure, or elles list no swich dispence endure, But thinketh it is (to waiste) and y-lost,than mot another payen for our cost

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And this accord parfourned was in deede:

In mirth all night a bisy life they (to lede)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But boldely she (to say), and that anon,

“Marie! I defy the false monk Daun John

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But sith I see I stand in this disjoint

I wol (to answer) you shortly to the point

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: By certain tokens that I can you telle

Now by your leve, I may no lenger (to dwelle)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For to his hert it was a greet plesaunce.

Thus (to be) they knit with eterne alliaunce

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For which he had alday so greet repair. For his largesse, and for his wife (to be) fair

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For your honour, for Goddes sake, i saye

As be not wroth, but let us (to laugh) and playe

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Fro day to day, and if so be I faile,

I am your wife – (to score) it upon my taile

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I (to keep) not of his ‘tokens’ neverable!

He took me certain gold, this wot I well

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I might him (to ask) a thing that he hath paid”

This wife was not afered no afraid

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: If any dettour hath in mine absence

Y-(to pay) thee, lest thurgh thy necligence

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Or lene us gold – and that is perilous!” This noble marchant (to hold) a worthy hours

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That ever in one was (to draw) to that place.

This yonge monk, that was so fair of face

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That for thise hundred franks he (shold) all night

Have hire in his armes bolt upright

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That he (to have) yive it me because of you

To doon therewith mine honour and my prow

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That in his house as familier (to be) he

As it is possible any freend to be

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That men hem doon at feestes and daunces. (to switch) salutacions and countenances Passen as doth a shadwe upon the wall. But woe is him that payen mot for all

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That needes most he (to win) in that viage

A thousand franks aboven his costage

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That wonder (to be). But herkneth to my tale:

Amonges all his guests greet and smalle

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There was a monk, a fair man and a bold–

I trowe a thirty winter he (to be) old

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Till he (come) into Bruges murrily.

Now goth this marchant fast and bisily

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Till it was day, that Daun John (to go) his way,

And bade the meinee “Farewell, have good day”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Which is a thing that causeth more dispence. Than worth (to be) all the cheer and reverence

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Ye han mo slacker dettours than am I

For I wol (to pay) you well and redily

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) By the fourteen century, however, the form and subject of romance had become sadly debased

B) The best way to see the humour of Sir Thopas is to read one of its prototypes – Gey of Warwick

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) By the sixteen century, however, the form and subject of romance had become sadly debased

B) The best way to see the humour of Sir Thopas is to read one of its prototypes – Guy of Warwick

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Cervantes’ work comments profoundly upon the nature of human organism

B) In writers like Sercamby, Boccaccio, and Chaucer they gain literary status

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer became a knight of the shire of Kent in 1386

B) ) In 1357 Geoffrey Chaucer served with Lionel, son of the reigning king, Edward III

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer combines them in such a way that the climax of both occurs at once – with the cry of “Water!”

B) Chaucer is best remembered for his comic shows The Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer enjoyed Gaunt’s patronage throughout his life and even after his death

B) Geoffrey Chaucer may have met Boccaccio and Petrachio

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer is best remembered for his great works The Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde

B) Possibly around 1666, Geoffrey Chaucer married Fhilippa, the sister of John of Gaunt’s third wife

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer is content to have his fun briefly at the expense of middle-class romances and be done-hence the Host’s interruption

B) Chaucer’s art in the Miller’s tale lies in his combining two tales, that of the “second flood” and that (as it is politely called) of the “misdirected kiss”

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer is content to have his fun briefly at the expense of middle-class romances and be done-hence the Host’s interruption

B) The Knight’s tale is a low-minded romance

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer tells the whole in a deadly singsong filled with cliches

B) The Miller’s tale is a “fabliau” – a comic show, reflecting the life of common people

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer’s art in the Miller’s tale lies in his combining two tales, that of the “second flood” and that (as it is politely called) of the “misdirected kiss”

B) Poet, translator, courtier, diplomat and civil servant, Chaucer radically transformed the art of narrative poetry

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer’s burlesque attributes to him decidedly middle-class characteristics

B) Chaucer is never content to have his fun briefly at the expense of middle-class romances and be done-hence the Host’s interruption

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer’s burlesque attributes to him decidedly middle-man characteristics

B) Cervantes’ work comments profoundly upon the nature of human life itself

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer’s burlesque sets him off looking for an elf-king (it was supposed to be the other way around, the elf-queen finding him)

B) The tale of Sir Papas is a burlesque of the metrical romances

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer’s burlesque sets him off looking for an elf-queen (it was supposed to be the other way around, the elf-queen finding him)

B) Chaucer is content to have his fun briefly at the expense of middle-class romances and be done-hence the Host’s interruption

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer’s burlesque takes an effiminate and cowardly hero

B) Sir Thopas is often compared with Don Quixote.t Cervantes’ work comments profoundly upon the nature of human life itself

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer’s burlesque takes an effiminate and cowardly man

B) Sir Cadmus is often compared with Don Quixote

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Chaucer’s choice of story ranges from those he had heard – such as tales of low life in oral circulation – to what he read in Boccaccio, or other classic masters, or in the lives of saints

B) In writing romances Chaucer was well scooled. The Knight’s tale is a high-minded romance

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer (1443–1400)

B) Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of vintner, sometime between 1339 and 1346

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer adds to the thrill by making the whole a parody of the knight’s tale

B) Geoffrey Chaucer was born in Suzdal, the son of vintner, sometime between 1339 and 1346

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer held a number of positions at court and in the king’s service

B) Chaucer became a knight of the shire of Kent in 1386

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer may have met Boccaccio and Mona Lisa

B) Geoffrey Chaucer was buried in Poet’s corner at Westminster Abbey

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer probably lived in Kent for much of the rest of his life

B) Geoffrey Chaucer held a number of positions at court and in the king’s palace

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer travelled abroad on numerous occasions on diplomatic missions, often to France and Italy

B) Geoffrey Chaucer probably smoked Kent for much of his life

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer visited Genoa and Chelsea during 1372–1373

B) Geoffrey Chaucer’s last official position was cleaner

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer was born in Chicago

B) Chaucer enjoyed Gaunt’s patronage throughout his life

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of vintner, sometime between 1339 and 1340

B) Philippa died in 1387

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer was buried in Speaker’s corner at Hyde Park

B) Philippa died in 1387. Chaucer enjoyed Gaunt’s patronage throughout his life

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer’s last official position was deputy forester in the King’s Forest at Petherton in Somerse

B) Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of vintner, sometime between 1839 and 1946

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In 1357 Geoffrey Chaucer served with Lionel, son of the reigning king, Edward III. Chaucer’s high favour with the Crown was shown when the king paid part of his ransom in 1360 after his capture while fighting in France

B) Geoffrey Chaucer held a number of positions at court and in the king’s service

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In writers like Sercamby, Boccaccio, and Chaucer they gain literary money

B) Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In writing romances Chaucer was well scooled

B) Stories of heroic knights, set in a sing-song rhyme scheme, were recited by minstrels for audiences of middle-class burghers

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) In writing romances Chaucer was well scooled. The Knight’s tale is a high-minded romance

B) The idealism of romance came to be tailored for a middle-class mentality

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) It should be understood that there were good metrical lengths

B) Chaucer’s burlesque sets him off looking for an elf-prince (it was supposed to be the other way around, the elf-queen finding him)

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) It should be understood that there were good metrical romances

B) Chaucer’s burlesque sets him off looking for an elf-queen (it was supposed to be the other way around, the elf-queen finding him)

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Philippa never died. She lives in Bosnia

B) Geoffrey Chaucer visited Genoa and Vladivostok during 1372–1373

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Poet, translator, courtier, diplomat and civil servant, Chaucer radically transformed the art of narrative poetry

B) In 1357 Geoffrey Chaucer served with Lionel, son of the reigning king, Edward III. Chaucer’s high favour with the Crown was shown when the king paid part of his ransom in 1360 after his capture while fighting in France

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Possibly around 1366, Geoffrey Chaucer married Fhilippa, the sister of John of Gaunt’s third wife

B) Geoffrey Chaucer travelled abroad on numerous occasions on diplomatic missions, often to Russia and Belorussia

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Romance had an technocratic heritage

B) By the fourteen century, however, the form and subject of romance had become sadly debased

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight were the greatest metrical romances

B) Chaucer tells the whole in a deadly singsong filled with niches

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight were the worst metrical romances

B) Chaucer tells the whole in a deadly singsong filled with cliches

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Sir Thopas is often compared with Anna Karenina

B) Such jokes were told orally and passed by word of mouth, but some – a good many all told – were written down

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Sir Thopas is often compared with Don Quixote.t Cervantes’ work comments profoundly upon the nature of human life itself

B) In writing romances Chaucer was well scooled

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Stories of heroic knights, set in a sing-song rhyme scheme, were recited by ministers and presidents

B) It should be understood that there were good mechanical romances

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Stories of heroic knights, set in a sing-song rhyme scheme, were recited by minstrels for audiences of middle-class burghers

B) It should be understood that there were good metrical romances

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Such tales were told on the radio and passed by word of mouth, but some – a good many all told – were written down

B) Geoffrey Chaucer adds to the fun by making the whole a parody of the knight’s tale

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The Knight’s tale is a high-minded romance

B) The socialism of romance came to be tailored for a middle-class mentality

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The Miller’s tale is a “fabliau” – a comic tale, reflecting the life of common people

B) Geoffrey Chaucer adds to the sadness by making the whole a parody of the knight’s tale

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The best way to see the humour of Sir Thopas is to read one of its prototypes – Guy of Warwick

B) Chaucer’s burlesque attributes to him deadly middle-class characteristics

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The best way to see the tragedy of Sir Thopas is to read one of its prototypes – Guy of Warwick

B) Chaucer’s burlesque attributes to him decidedly middle-class characteristics

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The form of romance became tedious and cliche

B) Chaucer’s burlesque takes an effiminate and cowardly hero

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The idealism of romance came to be tailored for a middle-class mentality

B) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight were the greatest metrical numbers

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The realism of romance came to be tailored for a middle-class mentality

B) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight were the greatest metrical romances

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The style of romance became tedious and cliche

B) Chaucer’s burlesque takes an effiminate and cowardly woman

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The tale of Sir Thopas is a burlesque of the metrical system

B) Troilus and Criseyde is often called the stupidest of romances

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) The tale of Sir Thopas is a grotesque of the metrical romances

B) By the nineteen century, however, the form and subject of romance had become sadly debased

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) To quote the poet John Dryden, ‘Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God’s plenty.’

B) Troilus and Criseyde is often called the greatest of pieces

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Troilus and Criseyde is often called the greatest of poems

B) The form of poetry became tedious and cliche

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Troilus and Criseyde is often called the greatest of romances

B) The form of romance became tedious and cliche

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A)Romance had an democratic heritage

B) Stories of heroic knights, set in a sing-song rhyme scheme, were recited by minstrels for audiences of middle-class burghers