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Category: Cultural and Literary English Renaissance
In 1534, King Henry VIII was declared head of what church ?
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A. The Catholic Church
B. The English Church
C. The Church of God
D. Both A and B
Fill in the blank. Although there is dispute about the actual “invention” of the printing press with movable metal type, _________ is usually the man credited with the invention.
A. Niccolo Machiavelli
B. Johan Gutenberg
C. Peter Schoeffer
D. Johannes Fust
Edmund Spenser wrote what famous text ?
A. “Paradise Lost”
B. “The Faerie Queen”
C. “The Prelude”
D. “Canterbury Tales”
Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author’s contemporaries?
A. “Euphues”
B. “Paradise Lost”
C. “Utopia”
D. “Zelauto”
Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?
A. “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
B. “The Winter’s Tale”
C. “The Tempest”
D. “Faustus”
Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s style is best described as ___________________?
A. Anachronistic
B. Euphuistic
C. Marxist
D. Solipsistic
What author defines the function of poetry with reference to the Horatian dictum of “to teach and delight” ?
A. Sir Thomas More
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
C. John Lyly
D. Sir Philip Sidney
Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the______________ age in England was over religion?
A. Hanover
B. Protestant
C. Tudor
D. None of these
Stephen Greenblatt’s work on the Renaissance is best described by what theoretical paradigm ?
A. Marxism
B. Feminism
C. New Historicism
D. Psychoanalysis
Which of the following characters is NOT found in the dramatis personae ofWilliam Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” ?
A. Benvolio
B. Lady Capulet
C. Mercutio
D. Falstaff
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