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Cultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 1 (20 MCQs)

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1. Fill in the blank. A ..... was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility and was staged to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat.
2. William Shakespeare's "Henry V" is an example of what dramatic genre?
3. Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT:
4. Which of the following is an important component of John Foxe's martyrology?
5. Book I of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" centers on what event?
6. In 1583, which playwright became in control of the first Blackfriars Theatre along with director William Hunnis?
7. Fill in the blank. The intellectual and social movement which historians call "....." is what lies at the base of the period we call the Renaissance.
8. Who wrote "Orlando Furioso" ?
9. Fill in the blank. John Lyly's ..... exercised considerable influence upon its author's contemporaries.
10. According to John Milton's "Paradise Lost, " what is Satan's tragic flaw?
11. Fill in the blank. John Foxe's ambiguous attitude towards the Elizabethan church was .....
12. Fill in the blank. In 1585, ..... sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina).
13. Fill in the blank. ..... is remembered as the "Morning Star of the Reformation."
14. Fill in the blank. John Foxe was deeply disgusted by the ....., and could not believe that any honest Christian could accept its doctrinal basis.
15. Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar?
16. Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of poverty was advanced by ..... in the fourteenth century.
17. Martin Luther's translation of what text helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation?
18. "The Discovery of Guiana" is what author's account of discovering an area of the New World?
19. Many of William Shakespeare's plays were performed at what theater in Elizabethan England?
20. What text greatly popularized the sonnet form in England during the Elizabethan period?
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