cultural and literary english renaissance MCQs – Page 5

Practise focused cultural and literary english renaissance questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

cultural and literary english renaissance Mcqs
81. Which of the following writers remained a firm believer in the Royal Supremacy ?
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A. John Foxe

B. John Lyly

C. John Locke

D. John Milton

82. Fill in the blank. John Foxes ambiguous attitude towards the Elizabethan church was ______________?
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A. Untypical

B. Not untypical

C. Rejected

D. Exploded

83. Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?
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A. Langland

B. Chaucer

C. Shakespeare

D. Homer

84. Choose the best answer. Which of the following statements is true concerning epic poetry ?
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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.
85. The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter ?
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A. Trochaic trimeter

B. Iambic pentameter

C. Anapestic pentameter

D. Terza rima

86. Martin Luthers translation of what text helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation ?
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A. Piers Plowman

B. The Bible

C. Canterbury Tales

D. Paradise Lost

87. The foundation story of what poem is the Genesis account of the Creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, culminating in the drama of their temptation and fall ?
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A. The Prelude

B. Canterbury Tales

C. The Faerie Queen

D. Paradise Lost
88. Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of poverty was advanced by______________ in the fourteenth century?
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A. Dante

B. Machiavelli

C. Petrarch

D. Langland
89. Edmund Spenser was directly influenced by which writers epic poetry ?
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A. Milton

B. Wordsworth

C. Aristo

D. Both A and B

90. Christopher Marlowes Faustus is an example of what dramatic genre ?
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A. Satire

B. Tragedy

C. Comedy

D. Romance

91. King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?
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A. Protestantism

B. Roman Catholicism

C. Catholicism

D. Buddhism

92. Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. Throughout the Middle Ages, English drama, like that of other European countries, was mainly ______________ and ______________?
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A. Emotional, Psychological

B. none of these

C. Psychological, Sexual

D. Religious, Didactic
93. Which of the following controversial ideas surround the life and work of William Shakespeare ?
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A. The idea that William Shakespeare never lived.

B. A and B only

C. The idea that William Shakespeare was a Catholic.

D. All of the above

94. Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his _____________ to a church door in Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy upon heresy?
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A. 95 Theses

B. The Bible

C. Piers Plowman

D. Paradise Lost