Elizabethan Period Quiz 2 (13 MCQs)

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1. What type of non-rhymed poetry did Christopher Marlowe pioneer?

Correct Answer: A) Blank verse.

2. Elizabeth's reign was longer than that of any other Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she reigned?

Correct Answer: C) 45.

3. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I?

Correct Answer: D) Anne Boleyn.

4. The term for the reaction against corruption in the Catholic Church was known as:

Correct Answer: B) The Protestant Reformation.

5. What religion was Mary Queen of Scots?

Correct Answer: B) Catholic.

6. Which work did Edmund Spenser author?

Correct Answer: D) The Faerie Queene.

7. Which of the following is a ceremony in which a sovereign is officially crowned?

Correct Answer: D) Coronation.

8. Which language did young Elizabeth learn in secret?

Correct Answer: D) Welsh.

9. What was a favorite entertainment in Elizabeth's court?

Correct Answer: C) Jousting.

10. Who was Edmund Spenser's patron?

Correct Answer: A) The Earl of Leicester.

11. Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal family?

Correct Answer: C) Tudor.

12. What is the name for a shift in tone or meaning of a sonnet

Correct Answer: B) Volta.

13. What are the beginning and ending dates of the Elizabethan era?

Correct Answer: A) 1558-1603.