This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Jacobean Era – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Jacobean Era Quiz 1 (9 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620-1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ..... in London in 1625. A) Cholera. B) Tuberculosis. C) Bubonic plague. D) Plague (disease). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bubonic plague. 2. Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the ....., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era. A) William Shakespeare. B) Ben Jonson. C) Masque. D) A Midsummer Night's Dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Masque. 3. "The Jacobean Era" refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries? A) Jordan. B) England. C) Malaysia. D) Tunisia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England. 4. The first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem. A) Iliad. B) Odyssey. C) Beowulf. D) Canterbury Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beowulf. 5. What proceeded Jacobean era? A) Elizabethan Era. B) Caroline era. C) Victorian era. D) Jacobean Era. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caroline era. 6. Famous satiric drama, Volpone, is written by? A) Sir Walter Scot. B) Christopher Marlow. C) Ben Johnson. D) George Herbert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ben Johnson. 7. The Jacobean era succeeds the ..... and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period. A) Elizabethan era. B) English Reformation. C) England. D) Tudor period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabethan era. 8. What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I? A) 1592-1608. B) 1603-1625. C) 1607-1627. D) 1608-1639. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1603-1625. 9. The foremost poet of Jacobean era was? A) John Milton. B) Charles Bacon. C) John Donne. D) Herbert Spencer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Donne. Related Quizzes16Th Century Quiz20Th Century QuizAges Era Period QuizAugustan Age QuizContemporary Literature QuizCultural And Literary In Modernity QuizEarly 17Th Century QuizEarly Middle Ages QuizElizabethan Drama QuizElizabethan Era QuizElizabethan Period QuizMedieval Literature And Culture QuizMedieval Women Writers QuizMiddle Ages QuizRenaissance Literature QuizRestoration And 18Th Century QuizRestoration Eighteenth Century Drama QuizRomantic Era English Literature QuizRomantic Period QuizThe English Romantic QuizThe Renaissance QuizVictorian Age QuizVictorian Literature QuizVictorian Period Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books