The Abbot Of Canterbury (Poem 6) - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) - English (Compulsory) For HSC Part 1

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Poem 6 - The Abbot Of Canterbury

Anonymous (Unknown) Poet

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Choose the right option:
1. The ballad "The Abbot of Canterbury' is narrated in ____ person:
a. first
b. second
c. third
d. first and third story ✔

2. The poet says to the reader that he is going to tell a ____ story.
a. sad
b. funny ✔
c. terrible
d. folk

3. King John was jealous of Abbot's housekeeping and high ______.
a. character
b. respect
c. business
d. renown ✔

4. King John feared that the Abbot was working against his _____:
a. people
b. policies
c. crown ✔
d. ministers

5. King John told the Abbot if he did not answer his three questions he would be _____:
a. beheaded ✔
b. poisoned
c. banished
d. fined

6. After listening to the King's questions, the Abbot rode to _____ universities.
a. Oxford and London
b. Oxford and Canterbury
c. Oxford and Campbell
d. Oxford and Cambridge ✔

7. The Abbot requested the king to give him ___ week's time.
a. three ✔
b. four
c. five
d. six

8. While going back to his hometown, the Abbot met a _____.
a. farmer
b. friend
c. neighbour
d. shepherd ✔

9. The shepherd demanded the Abbot's ___ to answer the king's questions.
a lands
b house
c. horse and dress ✔
d wealth

10. "The Abbot of Canterbury" is composed by:
a. William Wordsworth
b. John Keats
c. Anonymous ✔
d. Alexander Pope

11."The Abbot of Canterbury" deals with the ideas of:
a. Jealousy ✔
b. Aristocracy
c. Democracy
d. none

12. "For thirty pence our ___ was sold among the false Jews, as I have been told".
a. Christ
b. Savior ✔
c. Lord
d. Prophet

13. The Abbot of Canterbury is a ____.
a. Sonnet
b. Ballad ✔
c. Elegy
d. Carol

14. King John asks ____ questions from the Abbot of Canterbury.
a. Two
b. three ✔
c. four
d. five

15. ____ gives the intelligent answers of King John's questions?
a. Poor farmer
b. poor shepherd ✔
c. Abbot's doctor
d. Abbot

16. The Abbot was supposed to answer the questions of King John within:
a. two week
b. three weeks ✔
c. Four week
d. one week

17. King John announced as a reward.
a. Four nobles a week ✔
b. Four nobles a month
c. Three nobles a week
d. Three nobles a month

18. To Shepherd, the worth of King John was:
a. 30 pence
b. 29 pence ✔
c. 25 pence
d. 31 pence

19. The King could travel in ______ hours.
a. 22
b. 23
c. 24 ✔
d. 25

20. _____ impersonates the Abbot before the king?
a. Abbot's servant
b. Abbot's shepherd ✔
c. Abbot's brother
d. none

21. This poem is old typical ____.
a. Song
b. ballad ✔
c. ode
d. blank verse

22. The Savior was sold in:
a. 31 pence
b. 30 pence ✔
c. 29 pence
d. 25 pence

23. The Abbot of Canterbury is ____ poem.
a. An anonymous ✔
b. a local
c. a foreign
d. a known

24. The name of the king in the Abbot of Canterbury is _____.
a. King Charles
b. King John ✔
c. King Henry
d. King Edward

25. King John ruled _____ with main and with might.
a. Scotland
b. Wales
c. Ireland
d. England ✔

26. King John ruled England with and _____.
a. Pity -kindness
b. Main-might ✔
c. Humor-pride
d. None

27. The poet tells the story in the poem The Abbot of Canterbury concerning the ___:
a. Duke
b. Abbot of Canterbury ✔
c. Courtiers of King
d. None

28. The Abbot kept ____ men in his house everyday.
a. Fifty
b. One hundred ✔
c. two hundred
d. seventy

29. Complete the line; And ___ gold chains, without any about'.
a. Thirty
b. forty
c. fifty ✔
d. sixty

30. Complete the liner; '0, these are hard Questions for my _____.
a. Knowledge
b. education
c. friends
d. shallow wit ✔

31. The Abbot met his ____ a - going to fold.
a. Clerk
b. assistant
c. Shepherd ✔
d. horsemen

32. Complete the line: In Velvet coats waited the ____ about.
a. Duke
b. King
c. Abbot ✔
d. lord

33. Complete the line; What news do you bring us from good ____.
a. Duke
b. Abbot
c. King John ✔
d. King Charles-II

34. Complete the line; 'that a ___ he may learn a wise man wit.
a. Noble
b. simple
c. fool ✔
d. dull

35. For ___ pence our savior was sold.
a. Twenty
b. Thirty ✔
c. Forty
d. Fifty

36. You must rise with the ____ and ride with the same.
a. Star
b. moon
c. Sun ✔
d. Jupiter

37. The worth of King John was ___ pence according to shepherd.
a. 27
b. 28
c. 29 ✔
d. 30

38. You think I am the ____.
a. Duke
b. King
c. Abbot of Canterbury ✔
d. None

39. The King gave ___ nobles a week to the shepherd.
a. Three
b. four ✔
c. five
d. six

40. Four nobles a ____, then I will give thee.
a. Fortnight
b. month
c. week ✔
d. year

41. King John was famous for ___ and little right:
a. Justice
b. Great wrong ✔
c. Wisdom
d. Courtesy

42. The Abbot of Canterburry was famous for ____.
a. Justice
b. Wisdom
c. Cruelty
d. Hospitality ✔

43. The Abbot had ___ number of servants with golden chains:
a. Hundred
b. Fifty ✔
c. Sixty
d. Ninety

44. It was famous that Abbot's servants put on coats:
a. Fir coats
b. Leathers coats
c. Cotton coats
d. Velvet ✔

45. 'I never spend nothing, but what is my own' means _____.
a. I don't spent my own
b. I never spend
c. I spend what is my own ✔
d. I need not spend my own

46. The king will foregive / pardon Abbot, if he___:
a. Answers three questions ✔
b. Begs pardon
c. Hands over property
d. Stop hospitality

47. If Abbot fails to answer the questions, he will be _____:
a. Hanged to death
b. Shooted
c. Exiled
d. Head cut from body ✔

48. Abbot went for the answers to _____.
a. His wife
b. Oxford and Cambridge ✔
c. Family
d. Shepherd

49. Head shall be Smitten from thy ___ said the king:
a. Body ✔
b. Sword
c. Knife
d. Hand

50. And the Abbot rode to Cambridge and ___ Universities:
a. Kansan
b. Harvard
c. Oxford ✔
d. Principle

51. Among the false ___ as I have been told, said the shepherd:
a. Muslims
b. Christian
c. Jews ✔
d. Hindus

52. The king gave ___ nobles a week to the shepherd for his merry-jest:
a. Two
b. Three
c. Four ✔
d. Five

53. The central figure of the poem "The Abbot of canterburry" is the:
a. King John
b. Abbot of Canterburry ✔
c. Shepherd
d. Prince

54. The main and basic point of the poem "The Abbot of Canterburry" is:
a. A happy life
b. Patriotism
c. Beauty of nature
d. Punishmeht and reward ✔

55. The King could ride the whole world in about ______ times.
a. Twenty four hours ✔
b. Twenty four years
c. Twenty four days
d. Twenty four months

56. The King ___ at first answer:
a. Shouted
b. Annoyed
c. Shirked
d. Laughed ✔

57. Crozier, mitre, rochet and cope re the _____:
a. names of the servants
b. names of the horses
c. parts of a dress ✔
d. names of the cities

58. When the Abbot returned home without answers ___ days were left.
a. three weeks
b. two weeks
c. three days ✔
d. four days

More Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
For Knowledge

23. King John ruled England from ___ to ____.
a. 1564 to 1616
b. 1216 to 1534
c. 1199 to 1216 ✔
d. 1534 to 11640

24. The Abbot of Canterbury is a typical old ballad of the:
a. South of England ✔
b. North of England
c. West of England
d. East of England