This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > English Renaissance > Cultural And Literary English Renaissance – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his ..... to a church door in Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy upon heresy. A) "Paradise Lost". B) "95 Theses". C) "The Bible". D) "Piers Plowman". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "95 Theses". 2. Which of the following texts is an example of epic poetry? A) "Paradise Lost". B) "The Odyssey". C) "The Iliad". D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ..... A) Catholicism. B) Medieval Europe. C) Classical antiquity. D) Protestantism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Classical antiquity. 4. Fill in the blank. John Lyly's style is best described as ..... A) Anachronistic. B) Euphuistic. C) Marxist. D) Solipsistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphuistic. 5. According to many British Romantic poets, who is the protagonist of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" ? A) Satan. B) Adam. C) Eve. D) Christ. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satan. 6. William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is an example of what dramatic genre? A) Tragedy. B) Comedy. C) Romance. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragedy. 7. The character of Falstaff is important in which play(s) by William Shakespeare? A) "Henry IV, Part I". B) "Henry IV, Part II". C) "Titus Andronicus". D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. John Milton's "Paradise Lost" focuses attention on the relationship between which opposing entities? A) Heaven vs. hell. B) God vs. Satan. C) Good vs. evil. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 9. John Milton's "Lycidas" is what genre of poetry? A) A pastoral elegy. B) A satire. C) An epic. D) A mock-epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A pastoral elegy. 10. Fill in the blank. Th A) Was a movement that had profound implications not only for the modern world in general but also for literary history. B) Catholic Restoration. C) Catholic Reformation. D) Protestant Reformation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protestant Reformation. 11. Edmund Spenser wrote what famous text? A) "Paradise Lost". B) "The Faerie Queen". C) "The Prelude". D) "Canterbury Tales". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The Faerie Queen". 12. Who was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn who also reigned as Queen of England from 1558 to1603? A) Elizabeth I. B) Elizabeth II. C) Mary, Queen of Scots. D) Catherine of Aragon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth I. 13. Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically? A) Sex. B) Emotions. C) Psychology. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotions. 14. Stephen Greenblatt's work on the Renaissance is best described by what theoretical paradigm? A) Marxism. B) Feminism. C) New Historicism. D) Psychoanalysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Historicism. 15. Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. Throughout the Middle Ages, English drama, like that of other European countries, was mainly ..... and ..... A) Psychological, Sexual. B) Religious, Didactic. C) Emotional, Psychological. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Religious, Didactic. 16. Who was considered to be England's first literary celebrity? A) John Donne. B) Sir Walter Raleigh. C) Sir Thomas More. D) John Foxe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Foxe. 17. Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the ..... age in England was over religion. A) Hanover. B) Protestant. C) Tudor. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tudor. 18. Fill in the blanks. From being narrowly focused on the achievements of north Italians in th A) And early centuries, the Renaissance is now being seen in a far wider context. B) 12th and 13th. C) 14th and 15th. D) 15th and 16th. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 15th and 16th. 19. There was greater emphasis placed on human potentiality for growth and excellence through Europe by which year? A) 1400. B) 1500. C) 1600. D) 1650. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1500. 20. Which of the following theaters could be found in England after Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne? A) The Curtain. B) The Rose. C) The Globe. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesCultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 1Cultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 2Cultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 3Cultural And Literary English Renaissance Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books