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Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period ?
A. They caused excessive noise and traffic.
B. They charged too much.
C. They excited illicit sexual desires.
D. They drew young people away from work.
From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?
A. Castiglione’s The Courtier
B. Dante’s Divine Comedy
C. Boccaccio’s Decameron
D. Machiavelli’s The Prince
What is blank verse ?
A. iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
B. the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet
C. free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
D. unrhymed iambic pentameter
Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as God’s deputy ?
A. manifest destiny
B. extreme unction
C. royal absolutism
D. constitutional monarchism
Which of the following statements accurately reflects the status of England, its people, and its language in the early sixteenth century ?
A. English travelers were not obliged to learn French, Italian, or Spanish during their explorations of the Continent.
B. English was fast supplanting Latin as the second language of most European intellectuals.
C. English travelers often returned from the Continent with foreign fashions, much to the delight of moralists.
D. Intending his Utopia for an international intellectual community, Thomas More wrote in Latin, since English had no prestige outside of England.
Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?
A. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
B. William Shakespeare’s King Lear
C. Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III
D. Thomas More’s Utopia
Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?
A. Archbishop Cranmer
B. Catherine of Aragon
C. Elizabeth I
D. Mary Tudor
To what subgenre did the Senecan influence give rise, as evidenced in the first English tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex ?
A. villain tragedy
B. poetic tragedy
C. heroic tragedy
D. revenge tragedy
Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?
A. Cavalcanti
B. Castiglione
C. Pirandello
D. Boccaccio
Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
A. Elizabeth Eisenstein
B. Johannes Gutenberg
C. Henry VIII
D. William Caxton
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