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
(*ответ*) А- false, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- true, В- true
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
(*ответ*) А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
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”
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
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
(*ответ*) А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
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
(*ответ*) А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
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
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
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
(*ответ*) А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
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
(*ответ*) А- false, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- true, В- true
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
(*ответ*) А- false, В- false
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- true
А- true, В- true
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
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true
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
(*ответ*) А- true, В- true
А-true, В-false
А- false, В- false
А- false, В- true