Exam 3: English History and Literature

_________learned the art of printing, and, after being in the service of Margaret Duchess ofBurgundy, an English princess, returned to England and set up his printing press at Westminster in1476.

The Reformation in England under ………….was more of a political and personal movement.

Who introduced the first printing press in England?

Chaucer's The Remount of the Rose is

Chaucer's first attempt in English to use the heroic couplet occurs in which of the followingpoems.

Elizabeth I was the daughter of ……………….

Wars of the Roses, traditional name given to the intermittent struggle for the throne of Englandbetween the noble houses of York and ………………

The pilgrims in Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales go on a pilgrimage to the tomb of……..

King Richard II Succeeded to the Crown in ………

Chaucerian seven-line stanza in English poetry is also known as …………

Henry VIII was the ruler of the ……………….dynasty.

The prevailing feature of Chaucer's humour is its ……

Who was the last ruler of the Tudor dynasty?

In………, Henry landed from France, defeated and killed Richard at Bosworth Field, and ascended the throne as Henry VII.

Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer's long poem adopted from …….

Jan Hus was a ……………priest ordained in 1401, who shared similar views with JohnWycliffe concerning the excesses of the medieval Catholic Church.

The Feudal System was introduced to England following the invasion and conquest of the country by …………………

The Black Death was …….

Chaucer virtually imported the decasyllabic lines in his poetry from ………

Who is the author of the book 'England under Tudors and Stuarts?'