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.

Choose one answer.

	a. Niccolo Machiavelli
	b. Johan Gutenberg
	c. Peter Schoeffer
	d. Johannes Fust
	e. Socrates

Question 2

Fill in the blank. John Wycliffe challenged a number of _________________ doctrines with arguments which centuries later would echo during the Protestant Reformation.

Choose one answer.

	a. Roman Catholic
	b. Anglican
	c. Buddhist
	d. Protestant
	e. Muslim

Question 3

Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his ________________ to a church door in Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy upon heresy.

Choose one answer.

	a. "Paradise Lost"
	b. "95 Theses"
	c. "The Bible"
	d. "Piers Plowman"
	e. "Paradise Lost"

Question 4

Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ___________________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Catholicism
	b. Medieval Europe
	c. Classical antiquity
	d. Protestantism
	e. Mythology

Question 5

Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of poverty was advanced by _____________ in the fourteenth century.

Choose one answer.

	a. Petrarch
	b. Dante
	c. Langland
	d. Machiavelli
	e. Plato

Question 6

Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the ______________ age in England was over religion.

Choose one answer.

	a. Hanover
	b. Protestant
	c. Tudor
	d. Catholic
	e. Reformation

Question 7

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.

Choose one answer.

	a. Socialism
	b. Capitalism
	c. Humanitarianism
	d. Humanism
	e. None of the above

Question 8

Fill in the blank. The term "Renaissance" literally translates as "_________________."

Choose one answer.

	a. Reincarnation
	b. Rebirth
	c. Reproduction
	d. Recapitulation
	e. Reimagination

Question 9

Fill in the blank. The ___________________ was a movement that had profound implications not only for the modern world in general but also for literary history.

Choose one answer.

	a. Catholic Restoration
	b. Catholic Reformation
	c. Protestant Reformation
	d. Protestant Restoration
	e. None of the above

Question 10

Fill in the blank. When writers like ____________ and his fellow humanists read pagan literature, they were influenced by the secular outlook of the Greeks and Romans.

Choose one answer.

	a. Petrarch
	b. Machiavelli
	c. Michelangelo
	d. A and B
	e. Dante

Question 11

Fill in the blank. __________________ was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation.

Choose one answer.

	a. Niccolo Machiavelli
	b. Martin Luther
	c. John Milton
	d. John Wycliffe
	e. Johan Gutenberg

Question 12

Fill in the blank. ___________________ is remembered as the "Morning Star of the Reformation."

Choose one answer.

	a. John Donne
	b. John Dryden
	c. John Wycliffe
	d. Johan Gutenberg
	e. None of the above

Question 13

Fill in the blank. King ______________ was notorious for his six marriages and for ruthlessly persecuting his political enemies, violently eliminating all opposition.

Choose one answer.

	a. Charles I
	b. Charles II
	c. Henry V
	d. Henry VIII
	e. Henry IX

Question 14

Fill in the blanks. From being narrowly focused on the achievements of north Italians in the _____ and early ______ centuries, the Renaissance is now being seen in a far wider context.

Choose one answer.

	a. 12th and 13th
	b. 14th and 15th
	c. 15th and 16th
	d. 16th and 17th
	e. 17th and 18th

Question 15

How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture?

Choose one answer.

	a. Print halted the corruption of texts by copyists, giving everyone identical texts.
	b. Scientific research became a more collaborative effort.
	c. Learning to read was made easier as print was standardized and made clearer.
	d. All of the above
	e. A and C only

Question 16

King Henry VIII adopted what religion?

Choose one answer.

	a. Catholicism
	b. Protestantism
	c. Buddhism
	d. Roman Catholicism
	e. None of the above

Question 17

Martin Luther's translation of what text helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation?

Choose one answer.

	a. "Paradise Lost"
	b. "Canterbury Tales"
	c. "The Bible"
	d. "Piers Plowman"
	e. None of the above

Question 18

Sir Thomas More wrote what famous text?

Choose one answer.

	a. "Toxophilus"
	b. "Utopia"
	c. "The Inferno"
	d. "Paradise Lost"
	e. None of the above

Question 19

There was greater emphasis placed on human potentiality for growth and excellence through Europe by which year?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1400
	b. 1500
	c. 1600
	d. 1650
	e. 1700

Question 20

Which of the following figures was an important political theorist of the Renaissance?

Choose one answer.

	a. Niccolo Machiavelli
	b. Francesco Petrarcha
	c. Aristotle
	d. Plato
	e. None of the above

Question 21

Which of the following statements best describes the "Great Chain of Being"?

Choose one answer.

	a. It regarded human beings as social creatures who could create meaningful lives only in association with other social beings.
	b. Its major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its "place" in a divinely planned hierarchical order which was pictured as a chain, vertically extended.
	c. It could only be achieved through faith in God's grace.
	d. Both A and B
	e. Both B and C

Question 22

Who was in charge of organizing court festivities and entertainment of the English court?

Choose one answer.

	a. Court Jester
	b. Master of Revels
	c. Master of Rebels
	d. Master of Ceremonies
	e. None of the above

Question 23

Who was King Henry VIII's first wife?

Choose one answer.

	a. Catherine of Aragon
	b. Anne Boleyn
	c. Mary, Queen of Scots
	d. Anne of Cleves
	e. None of the above

Question 24

Who was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn who also reigned as Queen of England from 1558 to1603?

Choose one answer.

	a. Elizabeth I
	b. Elizabeth II
	c. Mary, Queen of Scots
	d. Catherine of Aragon
	e. None of the above

Question 25

Fill in the blank. In 1585, _____________________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina).

Choose one answer.

	a. Sir Thomas More
	b. Sir Walter Raleigh
	c. John Foxe
	d. John Lyly
	e. King Henry VIII

Question 26

Fill in the blank. In the second edition of ___________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes.

Choose one answer.

	a. "Acts and Monuments"
	b. "Utopia"
	c. "Euphues"
	d. "Paradise Regained"
	e. "Piers Plowman"

Question 27

Fill in the blank. John Foxe was deeply disgusted by the __________________, and could not believe that any honest Christian could accept its doctrinal basis.

Choose one answer.

	a. Mass
	b. Transubstantiation
	c. Resurrection
	d. Bible
	e. Communion

Question 28

Fill in the blank. John Foxe was extremely sensitive to the _______________ claim that Protestantism is a religion of disobedience.

Choose one answer.

	a. Buddhist
	b. Anglican
	c. Quaker
	d. Catholic
	e. Hindu

Question 29

Fill in the blank. John Foxe's ambiguous attitude towards the Elizabethan church was _________________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Untypical
	b. Not untypical
	c. Exploded
	d. Rejected
	e. None of the above

Question 30

Fill in the blank. John Lyly's style is best described as _________________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Anachronistic
	b. Euphuistic
	c. Marxist
	d. Solipsistic
	e. None of the above

Question 31

Fill in the blank. John Lyly's __________________ exercised considerable influence upon its author's contemporaries.

Choose one answer.

	a. "Euphues"
	b. "Paradise Lost"
	c. "Utopia"
	d. "Zelauto"
	e. None of the above

Question 32

In 1534, King Henry VIII was declared head of what church?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Catholic Church
	b. The English Church
	c. The Church of God
	d. Both A and B
	e. None of the above

Question 33

In 1583, which playwright became in control of the first Blackfriars Theatre along with director William Hunnis?

Choose one answer.

	a. Henry VIII
	b. John Lyly
	c. Sir Thomas More
	d. John Foxe
	e. None of the above

Question 34

In "The Book of Martyrs," John Foxe provides a record of all known Christian martyrs throughout history, focusing on the persecution of people practicing which religion?

Choose one answer.

	a. Protestantism
	b. Catholicism
	c. Roman Catholicism
	d. Buddhism
	e. None of the above

Question 35

John Lyly became instantly famous with the publication of what text?

Choose one answer.

	a. "95 Theses"
	b. "Utopia"
	c. "Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit"
	d. "Paradise Lost"
	e. None of the above

Question 36

John Lyly's work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Blake
	b. William Wordsworth
	c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
	d. William Shakespeare
	e. None of the above

Question 37

On which of the following topics did Sir Thomas More focus in his "Utopia"?

Choose one answer.

	a. Utopian trades
	b. Riches, jewels, and gold
	c. Suicide
	d. Marriage and divorce
	e. All of the above

Question 38

Sir Thomas More held which of the following positions in the English court?

Choose one answer.

	a. Treasurer of the Exchequer
	b. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
	c. Speaker of the House of Commons
	d. Master of Requests
	e. All of the above

Question 39

Stephen Greenblatt's work on the Renaissance is best described by what theoretical paradigm?

Choose one answer.

	a. Marxism
	b. Feminism
	c. New Historicism
	d. Psychoanalysis
	e. None of the above

Question 40

The work of John Foxe was no longer read or heeded in educated circles after which major historical event?

Choose one answer.

	a. Restoration
	b. Glorious Revolution
	c. French Revolution
	d. Seven Years War
	e. None of the above

Question 41

What author defines the function of poetry with reference to the Horatian dictum of "to teach and delight"?

Choose one answer.

	a. Sir Thomas More
	b. Sir Walter Raleigh
	c. John Lyly
	d. Sir Philip Sidney
	e. None of the above

Question 42

What author speaks of the exemplary story as a fundamental narrative unit in which it is important to follow chronological order?

Choose one answer.

	a. John Foxe
	b. John Lyly
	c. Sir Thomas More
	d. Sir Walter Raleigh
	e. None of the above

Question 43

What doctrine significantly influenced Sir Thomas More's "Utopia"?

Choose one answer.

	a. Marxism
	b. Christian Humanism
	c. Feminism
	d. New Historicism
	e. Post-Humanism

Question 44

What Renaissance text uses martyrology as a device to historicize the conflict between the true Church and the false Church in England?

Choose one answer.

	a. "Utopia"
	b. "Euphues"
	c. "Paradise Lost"
	d. "Paradise Regained"
	e. "Acts and Monuments"

Question 45

Which of the following is an important component of John Foxe's martyrology?

Choose one answer.

	a. Hexagrams
	b. Epigrams
	c. Heroic couplets
	d. All of the above
	e. None of the above

Question 46

Which of the following writers remained a firm believer in the Royal Supremacy?

Choose one answer.

	a. John Locke
	b. John Lyly
	c. John Foxe
	d. John Milton
	e. None of the above

Question 47

Which writer spent more than twelve years imprisoned in the Tower of London?

Choose one answer.

	a. Sir Thomas More
	b. Sir Walter Raleigh
	c. Sir Philip Sidney
	d. John Milton
	e. All of the above

Question 48

Who became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I and was knighted and appointed captain of the Queen's Guard in 1587?

Choose one answer.

	a. Sir Thomas More
	b. Sir Walter Raleigh
	c. Sir Philip Sidney
	d. Sir William Shakespeare
	e. None of the above

Question 49

Who was considered to be England's first literary celebrity?

Choose one answer.

	a. John Donne
	b. Sir Walter Raleigh
	c. Sir Thomas More
	d. John Foxe
	e. None of the above

Question 50

"The Discovery of Guiana" is what author's account of discovering an area of the New World?

Choose one answer.

	a. Sir Thomas More
	b. Sir Philip Sidney
	c. Sir Walter Raleigh
	d. John Foxe
	e. None of the above

Question 51

A total of how many sonnets constitute the entirety of "Astrophil and Stella"?

Choose one answer.

	a. 10
	b. 20
	c. 30
	d. 40
	e. 50

Question 52

According to John Milton's "Paradise Lost," what is Satan's tragic flaw?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lust
	b. Pride
	c. Jealousy
	d. Love
	e. None of the above

Question 53

According to many British Romantic poets, who is the protagonist of John Milton's "Paradise Lost"?

Choose one answer.

	a. Satan
	b. Adam
	c. Eve
	d. Christ
	e. None of the above

Question 54

Book I of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" centers on what event?

Choose one answer.

	a. The fall of the rebel angels
	b. The fall of Adam
	c. The fall of Eve
	d. The fall of the son
	e. None of the above

Question 55

Choose the best answer. Which of the following statements is true concerning epic poetry?

Choose one answer.

	a. An epic poem is the recital of some grand enterprise in a poetical form.
	b. Epic poetry is of a moral nature and tends to the promotion of virtue.
	c. "Canterbury Tales" is an example of epic poetry.
	d. All of the above answers are true.
	e. Both A and B are true.

Question 56

Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically?

Choose one answer.

	a. Sex
	b. Emotions
	c. Psychology
	d. All of the above
	e. A and C only

Question 57

Edmund Spenser was directly influenced by which writer's epic poetry?

Choose one answer.

	a. Milton
	b. Wordsworth
	c. Aristo
	d. Both A and B
	e. Both B and C

Question 58

Edmund Spenser wrote what famous text?

Choose one answer.

	a. "Paradise Lost"
	b. "The Faerie Queen"
	c. "The Prelude"
	d. "Canterbury Tales"
	e. None of the above

Question 59

Fill in the blank. Although Sir Philip Sidney is writing 200 years before the ____________ revolution, he presents a very inward and self-absorbed narrator in "Astrophil and Stella."

Choose one answer.

	a. Medieval
	b. Victorian
	c. Romantic
	d. Modern
	e. Industrial

Question 60

Fill in the blank. Sir Philip Sidney's strong _________________ convictions made him publicly oppose a projected marriage for Queen Elizabeth.

Choose one answer.

	a. Catholic
	b. Protestant
	c. Buddhist
	d. Quaker
	e. None of the above

Question 61

John Milton's "Lycidas" is what genre of poetry?

Choose one answer.

	a. A pastoral elegy
	b. A satire
	c. An epic
	d. A mock-epic
	e. None of the above

Question 62

John Milton's "Paradise Lost" focuses attention on the relationship between which opposing entities?

Choose one answer.

	a. Fate vs. free will
	b. Heaven vs. hell
	c. God vs. Satan
	d. Good vs. evil
	e. All of the above

Question 63

The conceit of the Petrarchan sonnet in English during the Elizabethan period often involves what topic?

Choose one answer.

	a. Drugs
	b. Sex
	c. Animals
	d. Propaganda
	e. None of the above

Question 64

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?

Choose one answer.

	a. "Canterbury Tales"
	b. "The Faerie Queen"
	c. "Paradise Lost"
	d. "The Prelude"
	e. None of the above

Question 65

The Petrarchan sonnet is composed of how many lines?

Choose one answer.

	a. 9
	b. 10
	c. 12
	d. 14
	e. None of the above

Question 66

The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter?

Choose one answer.

	a. Trochaic trimeter
	b. Terza rima
	c. Iambic pentameter
	d. Anapestic pentameter
	e. None of the above

Question 67

What author fell in love with Anne Boleyn while she was married to King Henry VIII?

Choose one answer.

	a. Sir Philip Sidney
	b. Sir Thomas More
	c. Thomas Wyatt
	d. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
	e. None of the above

Question 68

What author wrote the poem "Whoso list to hunt"?

Choose one answer.

	a. Sir Philip Sidney
	b. Sir Thomas More
	c. Thomas Wyatt
	d. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
	e. None of the above

Question 69

What text greatly popularized the sonnet form in England during the Elizabethan period?

Choose one answer.

	a. "Astrophil and Stella"
	b. "Utopia"
	c. "Paradise Lost"
	d. "Canterbury Tales"
	e. None of the above

Question 70

Which of the following texts is an example of epic poetry?

Choose one answer.

	a. "Paradise Lost"
	b. "The Odyssey"
	c. "The Iliad"
	d. All of the above
	e. None of the above

Question 71

Which type of poetry has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe?

Choose one answer.

	a. Terza rima
	b. Metaphysical poetry
	c. Rhyme royal
	d. The Petrarchan sonnet
	e. None of the above

Question 72

Who introduced the Italian sonnet to the British Isles during the reign of King Henry VIII?

Choose one answer.

	a. Thomas Wyatt
	b. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
	c. John Donne
	d. Both A and B
	e. Both A and C

Question 73

Who is largely considered to be the father of epic poetry?

Choose one answer.

	a. Homer
	b. Dante
	c. Virgil
	d. Milton
	e. Chaucer

Question 74

Who wrote "Orlando Furioso"?

Choose one answer.

	a. John Milton
	b. Ludovico Ariosto
	c. Sir Philip Sidney
	d. William Shakespeare
	e. None of the above

Question 75

Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. "Romeo and Juliet"
	b. "Hamlet"
	c. "Titus Andronicus"
	d. "The Spanish Tragedy"
	e. "Much Ado about Nothing"

Question 76

Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. "Macbeth"
	b. "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
	c. "The Winter's Tale"
	d. "The Tempest"
	e. "Faustus"

Question 77

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

Choose one answer.

	a. Psychological, Sexual
	b. Religious, Didactic
	c. Emotional, Psychological
	d. Sexual, Religious
	e. Scientific, Didactic

Question 78

Christopher Marlowe's "Faustus" is an example of what dramatic genre?

Choose one answer.

	a. Tragi-comedy
	b. Romance
	c. Satire
	d. Comedy
	e. Tragedy

Question 79

Fill in the blank. A ____________ was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility and was staged to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat.

Choose one answer.

	a. Masque
	b. Satire
	c. Tragedy
	d. Comedy
	e. Romance

Question 80

Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe's influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability _____________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Very great
	b. Insignificant
	c. Somewhat significant
	d. Impossible
	e. None of the above

Question 81

Fill in the blank. Prior to the rise of the famed tragedians of the late 1580s, ______________ were the great headliners of the Elizabethan stage.

Choose one answer.

	a. Clowns
	b. Women
	c. Politicians
	d. Pantomimes
	e. Musicians

Question 82

Greek theater was often of what genre?

Choose one answer.

	a. Tragedy
	b. Comedy
	c. Romance
	d. A and B only
	e. B and C only

Question 83

Greek theatre took place where?

Choose one answer.

	a. Large hillside amphitheaters
	b. Large indoor theaters
	c. Small indoor theaters
	d. All of the above
	e. None of the above

Question 84

hich of the following statements are true concerning Elizabethan theater?

Choose one answer.

	a. When Elizabeth I came to the throne, there were no specially designed theatre buildings in England.
	b. When Elizabeth I came to the throne, there were dozens of specially designed theatre buildings in England.
	c. When Elizabeth I came to the throne, there were three specially designed theatre buildings in England.
	d. When Elizabeth I came to the throne, there were ten specially designed theatre buildings in England.
	e. None of the above

Question 85

Many of William Shakespeare's plays were performed at what theater in Elizabethan England?

Choose one answer.

	a. "The Curtain"
	b. "The Globe"
	c. "The Rose"
	d. "The Anchor"
	e. None of the above

Question 86

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

Choose one answer.

	a. Chaucer
	b. Langland
	c. Homer
	d. Shakespeare
	e. None of the above

Question 87

The character of Falstaff is important in which play(s) by William Shakespeare?

Choose one answer.

	a. "Henry IV, Part I"
	b. "Henry IV, Part II"
	c. "Titus Andronicus"
	d. All of the above
	e. A and B only

Question 88

The distinction between comedy and tragedy which characterized classical drama was first forgotten during what period in England?

Choose one answer.

	a. Medieval
	b. Romantic
	c. Victorian
	d. Elizabethan
	e. None of the above

Question 89

What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write?

Choose one answer.

	a. Tragedies
	b. Comedies
	c. Romances
	d. All of the above
	e. A and B only

Question 90

Which of the following characters is NOT found in the dramatis personae of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?

Choose one answer.

	a. Benvolio
	b. Lady Capulet
	c. Mercutio
	d. Falstaff
	e. Romeo

Question 91

Which of the following controversial ideas surround the life and work of William Shakespeare?

Choose one answer.

	a. The idea that William Shakespeare was a homosexual.
	b. The idea that William Shakespeare never lived.
	c. The idea that William Shakespeare was a Catholic.
	d. All of the above
	e. A and B only

Question 92

Which of the following critics is a famous Shakespearean scholar?

Choose one answer.

	a. M. H. Abrams
	b. Stephen Greenblatt
	c. Helen Vendler
	d. Wayne C. Booth
	e. None of the above

Question 93

Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy?

Choose one answer.

	a. "Romeo and Juliet"
	b. "Hamlet"
	c. "Much Ado about Nothing"
	d. "Henry IV, Part I"
	e. "Titus Andronicus"

Question 94

Which of the following plays were written by Christopher Marlowe?

Choose one answer.

	a. "The Jew of Malta"
	b. "Doctor Faustus"
	c. "Edward II"
	d. All of the above
	e. A and C only

Question 95

Which of the following statements is TRUE concerning the Globe theater in Elizabethan England?

Choose one answer.

	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
	e. A and C only

Question 96

Which of the following theaters could be found in England after Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Red Bull
	b. The Curtain
	c. The Rose
	d. The Globe
	e. All of the above

Question 97

Which queen of England attended a number of William Shakespeare's play?

Choose one answer.

	a. Queen Elizabeth I
	b. Queen Elizabeth II
	c. Queen Anne
	d. Both A and B
	e. None of the above

Question 98

William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is an example of what dramatic genre?

Choose one answer.

	a. Tragedy
	b. Comedy
	c. Romance
	d. Satire
	e. None of the above

Question 99

William Shakespeare's "Henry V" is an example of what dramatic genre?

Choose one answer.

	a. Tragedy
	b. Comedy
	c. Romance
	d. History
	e. Satire

Question 100

"The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses" is an example of what dramatic genre?

Choose one answer.

	a. Masque
	b. Satire
	c. Burlesque
	d. Tragedy
	e. Comedy