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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
Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?
A. the pursuit of a more confrontational policy towards Catholic powers
B. the elimination of bishops
C. the right of congregations to choose their own leaders
D. the wider use of religious images in churches
The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer ?
A. Martin Luther
B. John Calvin
C. Henry VIII
D. Arminius
Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled_______________?
A. with an absolute prerogative his father would have envied.
B. through a system of draconian military courts.
C. with deference to Parliament’s legislative supremacy.
D. only a small area around London and Oxford.
Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?
A. Othello
B. Volpone
C. King Lear
D. Antony and Cleopatra
What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism ?
A. William Collins
B. William Laud
C. William Shakespeare
D. William Tyndale
Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the Long Parliament when it convened in 1640 ?
A. abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts
B. mounting a revolution and executing the king
C. bringing to trial the king’s hated ministers, Strafford and Laud
D. remaining in session until they themselves agreed to disband
What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War ?
A. the abolishment of public plays and sports
B. the conversion of the English church to Catholicism
C. the adoption of English as the official language
D. the consolidation of power in an absolute monarch
What was the general subject of theWelsh poet Katherine Philips’s work ?
A. celebrations of the transience of all life and beauty
B. celebrations of lesbian sexuality in terms that did not imply a male readership
C. celebrations of religious ecstasy and divine inspiration
D. celebrations of female friendship in Platonic terms normally reserved for male Friendships
What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell’sHoratian Ode ?
A. praising Roman virtues whilst endorsing Christian beliefs
B. praising feminine virtue whilst mocking the fixation on chastity
C. celebrating Cromwell’s victories whilst inviting sympathy for the executed king
D. celebrating the Restoration whilst regretting the frivolity of the new regime
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