This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Early 17Th Century > Early 17Th Century – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Early 17Th Century Quiz 1 (21 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy? A) The Ranters. B) The Roarers. C) The Fifth Monarchists. D) The Diggers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Ranters. 2. Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the textbackslash firsttextbackslash of its kind to be published by an English woman? A) Rachel Speght. B) Aemilia Lanyer. C) Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty? A) James IV of Scotland. B) James VI of Scotland. C) Mary, Queen of Scots. D) Anne Boleyn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James VI of Scotland. 4. What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era? A) The familiar essay. B) The novel. C) The sermon. D) The diary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The familiar essay. 5. Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne? A) Katherine Philips. B) Izaak Walton. C) John Skelton. D) Isabella Whitney. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Izaak Walton. 6. Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I? A) John Milton. B) Ben Jonson. C) John Donne. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Milton. 7. Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled: A) With an absolute prerogative his father would have envied. B) Through a system of draconian military courts. C) With deference to Parliament's legislative supremacy. D) Only a small area around London and Oxford. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With deference to Parliament's legislative supremacy. 8. James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler? A) Richard Lionheart. B) Pericles. C) Genghis Khan. D) Augustus Caesar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Augustus Caesar. 9. The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer? A) Arminius. B) John Calvin. C) Martin Luther. D) Henry VIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Calvin. 10. Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family? A) Aemilia Lanyer. B) Ben Jonson. C) Samuel Daniel. D) Mary Wroth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mary Wroth. 11. What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605? A) Westminster Abbey. B) Buckingham Palace. C) The Houses of Parliament. D) Tower Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Houses of Parliament. 12. Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25)? A) The founding of the Jamestown settlement. B) The founding of the Plymouth colony. C) Henry Hudson's fruitless search for the Northwest Passage. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. What is the title to Milton's blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition? A) L'Allegro. B) Lycidas. C) Paradise Lost. D) The Divine Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradise Lost. 14. Who served as Protector under England's first written constitution? A) Oliver Cromwell. B) Gerrard Winstanley. C) George Monk. D) Praisegod Barebone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oliver Cromwell. 15. Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam? A) Roger Williams. B) William Laud. C) Oliver Cromwell. D) John Lilburne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roger Williams. 16. What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes's defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract? A) Leviathan. B) The Litany in a Time of Plague. C) Utopia. D) The Advancement of Learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leviathan. 17. What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism? A) William Collins. B) William Tyndale. C) William Laud. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Laud. 18. Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I? A) Gluttonous feasting. B) Hard drinking. C) Hunting. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. Which was not among the textbackslash newtextbackslash genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert? A) The Petrarchan sonnet. B) The classical satire. C) The country-house poem. D) The epigram. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Petrarchan sonnet. 20. Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period? A) Othello. B) Volpone. C) King Lear. D) Antony and Cleopatra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volpone. 21. Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours? A) Blood. B) Cholesterol. C) Black bile. D) Choler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cholesterol. Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature Quizzes 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books