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Christopher Marlowe’s “Faustus” is an example of what dramatic genre ?
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A. Romance
B. Satire
C. Comedy
D. Tragedy
Choose the best answer. Which of the following statements is true concerning epic poetry ?
A. Epic poetry is of a moral nature and tends to the promotion of virtue.
B. “Canterbury Tales” is an example of epic poetry.
C. All of the above answers are true.
D. Both A and B are true.
Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically ?
A. Sex
B. Emotions
C. Psychology
D. All of the above
Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of poverty was advanced by______________ in the fourteenth century?
A. Petrarch
B. Dante
C. Langland
D. Machiavelli
Fill in the blank. In 1585, _______________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)?
A. Sir Thomas More
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
C. John Foxe
D. John Lyly
Fill in the blank. John Foxe’s ambiguous attitude towards the Elizabethan church was ______________?
A. Untypical
B. Not untypical
C. Exploded
D. Rejected
According to many British Romantic poets, who is the protagonist of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ?
A. Satan
B. Adam
C. Eve
D. Christ
Who was considered to be England’s first literary celebrity ?
A. John Donne
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
C. Sir Thomas More
D. John Foxe
Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his _____________ to a church door in Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy upon heresy?
A. “Paradise Lost”
B. “95 Theses”
C. “The Bible”
D. “Piers Plowman”
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