Who wrote The Faerie Queene?

• A. Edmund Spenser
• B. Geoffrey Chaucer
• C. John Milton
• D. William Shakespeare

Answer: (A)

The main idea tested is identifying who authored a classic work by connecting the title to its author and historical context. The Faerie Queene is the celebrated English epic-poem written by Edmund Spenser, produced in the late 16th century as an elaborate allegory about virtue and knightly quests. Spenser is the poet most closely linked with this work and with the Elizabethan era, including the distinctive Spenserian stanza used in the poem. By recognizing the title and its era, you match it to Spenser. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the medieval period, John Milton wrote Paradise Lost in the 17th century, and William Shakespeare is famous for plays and sonnets, not The Faerie Queene.