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Category: Cultural and Literary English Renaissance
Fill in the blank. In 1585, _______________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)?
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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”
King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?
A. Catholicism
B. Protestantism
C. Buddhism
D. Roman Catholicism
Which queen of England attended a number of William Shakespeare’s play ?
A. Queen Elizabeth I
B. Queen Elizabeth II
C. Queen Anne
D. Both A and B
What author wrote the poem “Whoso list to hunt” ?
A. Sir Philip Sidney
B. Sir Thomas More
C. Thomas Wyatt
D. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Which of the following plays were written by Christopher Marlowe ?
A. “The Jew of Malta”
B. “Doctor Faustus”
C. “Edward II”
D. All of the above
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