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What Renaissance text uses martyrology as a device to historicize the conflict between the true Church and the false Church in England ?
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A. “Euphues”
B. “Paradise Lost”
C. “Paradise Regained”
D. “Acts and Monuments”
Which of the following statements is TRUE concerning the Globe theater in Elizabethan England ?
A. It burned down and was reconstructed hundreds of years later.
B. It was situated on the Thames River.
C. It was lit from natural sunlight as well as by candle light.
D. All of the above
Edmund Spenser was directly influenced by which writer’s epic poetry ?
A. Milton
B. Wordsworth
C. Aristo
D. Both A and B
Fill in the blank. The term “Renaissance” literally translates as “_____________” ?
A. Reincarnation
B. Rebirth
C. Reproduction
D. Recapitulation
William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” is an example of what dramatic genre ?
A. Tragedy
B. Comedy
C. Romance
D. History
Fill in the blank. The intellectual and social movement which historians call “___________” is what lies at the base of the period we call the Renaissance ?
A. Socialism
B. Capitalism
C. Humanitarianism
D. Humanism
What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?
A. Tragedies
B. Comedies
C. Romances
D. All of the above
Which of the following theaters could be found in England after Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne ?
A. The Curtain
B. The Rose
C. The Globe
D. All of the above
Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar ?
A. M. H. Abrams
B. Stephen Greenblatt
C. Helen Vendler
D. Wayne C. Booth
The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter ?
A. Trochaic trimeter
B. Terza rima
C. Iambic pentameter
D. Anapestic pentameter
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