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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
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 is a typically Romantic poetic form ?
A. the fractal
B. the figment
C. the fragment
D. the aubade
Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?
A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
B. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.
Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England ?
A. They relied on admission charges, an innovation of the period.
B. The early versions were oval in shape.
C. They were located outside the city limits of London.
D. all of the above
As well as poetry, Milton published extensively on politics, philosophy and religion. Which of the following was NOT one of his works ?
A. Of Prelatical Episcopacy
B. The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church
C. Of Practical Exorcisme
D. Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Which social philosophy, dominant during the Industrial Revolution, dictated that only the free operation of economic laws would ensure the general welfare and that the government should not interfere in any person’s pursuit of their personal interests ?
A. economic independence
B. the Rights of Man
C. laissez-faire
D. enclosure
Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
Who began to ignite the embers of dissent against the Catholic church in November 1517 in a movement that came to be known as the Reformation ?
A. Anne Boleyn
B. Martin Luther
C. Pope Leo X
D. Ulrich Zwingli
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