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Category: Early 17th Century
Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy ?
A. the Fifth Monarchists
B. the Roarers
C. the Diggers
D. the Ranters
What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?
A. L’Allegro
B. Lycidas
C. Paradise Lost
D. The Divine Comedy
Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?
A. Izaak Walton
B. Katherine Philips
C. John Skelton
D. Isabella Whitney
Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
A. courtly ideals of the good life
B. carpe diem
C. loyalty to the king
D. pious devotion to religious virtues
Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s ?
A. the disestablishment of the church and the removal of bishops
B. the right of the people to dismiss and even execute their rulers
C. the free circulation of ideas without prior censorship
D. the restoration of the monarchy
What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ?
A. Westminster Abbey
B. Tower Bridge
C. the Houses of Parliament
D. Buckingham Palace
Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?
A. Air and Angels
B. Satire 3
C. The Apparition
D. The Indifferent
Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours ?
A. choler
B. blood
C. cholesterol
D. black bile
Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
A. Ben Jonson
B. Aemilia Lanyer
C. Samuel Daniel
D. Mary Wroth
What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes’s defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
A. The Litany in a Time of Plague
B. Utopia
C. Leviathan
D. The Advancement of Learning
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