This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Renaissance > The Renaissance – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Renaissance Quiz 1 (43 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The "father of humanism" was A) Petrarch. B) Dante. C) Boccaccio. D) Pico della Mirandola. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Petrarch. 2. The Prince was written to gain favor of the: A) Medici. B) Inquisition. C) Republic. D) Pazzi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inquisition. 3. John Milton was 34 when he married Mary Powell. How old was she? A) 17. B) 48. C) 34. D) 22. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 17. 4. Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art? A) Abstractioin. B) Perspective. C) Individualism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abstractioin. 5. The use of "whale-road" for sea and "life-house" for body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry? A) Kenning. B) Symbolism. C) Simile. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kenning. 6. Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces, which of these was not in his charge? A) Tower of London. B) St. George's chapel at Windsor. C) Buckingham Palace. D) Westminster Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buckingham Palace. 7. Utopia was written by: A) Poliziano. B) Machiavelli. C) Cervantes. D) Thomas More. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas More. 8. Which of these is not certain about Chaucer? A) His birth date. B) His death year. C) His father's name. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His birth date. 9. Who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance? A) Greek and austrian. B) Roman and french. C) Roman and greek. D) French and greek. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roman and greek. 10. An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on A) Alchemy and magic. B) The literature of Greece and Rome. C) Chivalry of the Middle Ages. D) The teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The literature of Greece and Rome. 11. For ordinary women, the Renaissance A) Had very little impact. B) Greatly improved the material conditions of their lives. C) Worsened their social status. D) Allowed them access to education for the first time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had very little impact. 12. What was the occupation of Chaucer's father? A) Leather merchant. B) Civil servant. C) A vintner. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A vintner. 13. Thomas More's Utopia placed the blame for society's problems on A) The Church. B) Human nature. C) God's will. D) Society itself. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Society itself. 14. In which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French? A) 1360. B) 1357. C) 1378. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1360. 15. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton's at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem? A) Lycidas. B) Paradise Lost. C) II penseroso. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lycidas. 16. What did Chaucer's wife use to do? A) Lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut. B) Nurse of royal court. C) Governess to Henry IV. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut. 17. In which city was Milton? A) Canterbury. B) Norwich. C) York. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London. 18. In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What's the name of that masque? A) 'Il Penseroso'. B) 'The Masque of Blackness'. C) 'Comus'. D) 'Lycidas'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 'Comus'. 19. In 1638 and 1639 Milton traveled abroad.In which country did he spend most of the time? A) Germany. B) Spain. C) Italy. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italy. 20. Which of these kings was not served by Chaucer? A) Edward III. B) Henry II. C) Richard II. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry II. 21. Who translated the New Testament into German for the first time? A) Poliziano. B) Cervantes. C) Martin Luther. D) Alexander VI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Martin Luther. 22. One of Chaucer's daughter was.....? A) A musician. B) An astronomer. C) A nun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A nun. 23. Who lost the most power during the renaissance? A) Italian merchants. B) Catholic church. C) Black people. D) King and queen of Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catholic church. 24. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend? A) Trinity College. B) Pembroke College. C) Christ's College. D) St. Xavier's College. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christ's College. 25. How many children chaucer had? A) 4. B) 0. C) 2. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 26. The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance A) Earlier occurrence. B) Greater appreciation of pagan writers. C) Growth of religious activity among common people. D) Decline in the use of Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Growth of religious activity among common people. 27. Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance? A) Emphasis on individuality. B) The development of social insurance programs. C) The emergence of merchant oligarchies. D) Confidence in human rationality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The development of social insurance programs. 28. Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin? A) Space used to mean "outer space". B) Unaccountable. C) Pandemonium. D) Blatant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blatant. 29. Which school did Milton attend? A) Westminster. B) Merchant Taylors'. C) Christ's Hospital. D) St Paul's. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) St Paul's. 30. Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be educated A) Just the same as men. B) With emphasis on science and mathematics. C) Not at all. D) Confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting. 31. What sparked the Renaissance? A) The Feudal system was collapsing. B) The "95 theses". C) The Crusades. D) The Black Plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Feudal system was collapsing. 32. Chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for.....? A) Beating a friar in a London street. B) For writing poetry against the church. C) For crossing the border of Great Britain. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beating a friar in a London street. 33. What was chaucer's profession? A) A poet. B) A merchant. C) A civil servant. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A civil servant. 34. What was the duration of hundred year's war? A) 1300 to 1350. B) 1337 to 1453. C) 1302 to 1343. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1337 to 1453. 35. "Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee." Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost? A) John Keats. B) William Wordsworth. C) William Blake. D) Horatio Herbert Kitchener. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wordsworth. 36. Chaucer was released from legal action by ..... in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction? A) Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne. B) Philippa de Roet of Flanders. C) Agnes de Copton. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne. 37. To what did the word the roman, from which the genre of "romance" emerged, initially apply? A) A work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire. B) A story about love and adventure. C) A Roman official. D) A work written in the French vernacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A work written in the French vernacular. 38. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the "flowering" of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers? A) The Gawain poet. B) Geoffrey of Monmouth. C) The Beowulf poet. D) Chr'etien de Troyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Gawain poet. 39. Chaucer became a member of Parliament in.....? A) 1386. B) 1300. C) 1343. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1386. 40. Chaucer acted as a controller of custom during.....? A) 1374 to 1385. B) 1350 to 1360. C) 1360 to 1400. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1374 to 1385. 41. Chaucer became a page to which king's daughter-in-law? A) Edward III. B) Richard II. C) Henry IV. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edward III. 42. Following parliament's victory in the civil war, Milton was appointed to a position in Cromwell's government in 1649. What was his title? A) Secretary to the Admiralty. B) Secretary for Foreign Tongues. C) Heresy tsar. D) Poet laureate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secretary for Foreign Tongues. 43. Chaucer buried in a corner of Westminster, which came to know as.....? A) Chaucer's corner. B) Poet's corner. C) Legend's corner. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet's corner. Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRenaissance Literature Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books