This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > English Renaissance > Cultural And Literary English Renaissance – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Fill in the blank. The term "Renaissance" literally translates as "....." A) Reincarnation. B) Rebirth. C) Reproduction. D) Recapitulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rebirth. 2. What author defines the function of poetry with reference to the Horatian dictum of "to teach and delight" ? A) Sir Thomas More. B) Sir Walter Raleigh. C) John Lyly. D) Sir Philip Sidney. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Philip Sidney. 3. Who became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I and was knighted and appointed captain of the Queen's Guard in 1587? A) Sir Thomas More. B) Sir Walter Raleigh. C) Sir Philip Sidney. D) Sir William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Walter Raleigh. 4. King Henry VIII adopted what religion? A) Catholicism. B) Protestantism. C) Buddhism. D) Roman Catholicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protestantism. 5. Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court? A) Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. B) Speaker of the House of Commons. C) Master of Requests. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 6. Christopher Marlowe's "Faustus" is an example of what dramatic genre? A) Romance. B) Satire. C) Comedy. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragedy. 7. On which of the following topics did Sir Thomas More focus in his "Utopia" ? A) Riches, jewels, and gold. B) Suicide. C) Marriage and divorce. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy? A) "Romeo and Juliet". B) "Hamlet". C) "Much Ado about Nothing". D) "Henry IV, Part I". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Much Ado about Nothing". 9. Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe's influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability ..... A) Very great. B) Insignificant. C) Somewhat significant. D) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Very great. 10. Greek theatre took place where? A) Large hillside amphitheaters. B) Large indoor theaters. C) Small indoor theaters. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Large hillside amphitheaters. 11. Sir Thomas More wrote what famous text? A) "Toxophilus". B) "Utopia". C) "The Inferno". D) "Paradise Lost". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Utopia". 12. Which queen of England attended a number of William Shakespeare's play? A) Queen Elizabeth I. B) Queen Elizabeth II. C) Queen Anne. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Queen Elizabeth I. 13. What author fell in love with Anne Boleyn while she was married to King Henry VIII? A) Sir Philip Sidney. B) Sir Thomas More. C) Thomas Wyatt. D) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Wyatt. 14. What doctrine significantly influenced Sir Thomas More's "Utopia" ? A) Marxism. B) Christian Humanism. C) Feminism. D) New Historicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christian Humanism. 15. What author wrote the poem "Whoso list to hunt" ? A) Sir Philip Sidney. B) Sir Thomas More. C) Thomas Wyatt. D) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Wyatt. 16. John Lyly's work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer? A) William Blake. B) William Wordsworth. C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 17. Who was in charge of organizing court festivities and entertainment of the English court? A) Court Jester. B) Master of Revels. C) Master of Rebels. D) Master of Ceremonies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Master of Revels. 18. Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing? A) Chaucer. B) Langland. C) Homer. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shakespeare. 19. The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter? A) Trochaic trimeter. B) Terza rima. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Anapestic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 20. Fill in the blank. John Foxe was extremely sensitive to th A) Buddhist. B) Anglican. C) Quaker. D) Catholic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Catholic. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesCultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 1Cultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 3Cultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 4Cultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books