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Category: Early 17th Century
What was the licensing system ?
A. All royalties from the sale of books went to the crown (hence the name).
B. Poets were required to have a university diploma (the original poetic license).
C. All books had to be dedicated to a noble or royal patron.
D. All books had to be submitted for official approval before publication.
James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?
A. Pericles
B. Genghis Khan
C. Richard Lionheart
D. Augustus Caesar
Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?
A. John Lilburne
B. William Laud
C. Roger Williams
D. Oliver Cromwell
Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?
A. the founding of the Jamestown settlement
B. the founding of the Plymouth colony
C. Henry Hudson’s fruitless search for the Northwest Passage
D. all of the above
Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I ?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Ben Jonson
C. John Donne
D. John Milton
Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the firstof its kind to be published by an English woman ?
A. Rachel Speght
B. Aemilia Lanyer
C. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
D. all of the above
Which was not among the newgenres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
A. the Petrarchan sonnet
B. the classical satire
C. the country-house poem
D. the epigram
Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?
A. gluttonous feasting
B. hard drinking
C. hunting
D. all of the above
Who served as Protector under England’s first written constitution ?
A. Gerrard Winstanley
B. Oliver Cromwell
C. Praisegod Barebone
D. George Monk
Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty ?
A. James IV of Scotland
B. James VI of Scotland
C. Mary, Queen of Scots
D. Anne Boleyn
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