The Early Renaissance (Poetry, Prose & History) 1.

___ is an intermittent civil war waged between the House of York and Lancaster, from 1455- 85. a) Battle of Brunanburgh b) Bishops war c) Battle of Maldon d) War of the Roses 2. The Tudors claimed the dynastys descent from ancient British rulers, like King Arthur, and promised to restore the power and glory of Camelot. This illusion came to be known as ____. a) Divine Origin b) Tudor Myth c) Welsh Lineage d) Union of the Rose th 3.____ in the 16 century Europe, saw the doctrine and power of the Roman Catholic Church challenged and in many cases replaced by the various forms of Protestant religion. a) Interregnum b) Restoration c) Renaissance d) Reformation 4. ____ is usually regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the Reformation. a) Erasmus Greek edition of the Scriptures b) Act of Supremacy in England c) Luther nailing his 95 Theses on a church door 5. Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses Against the sale of Papal Indulgences to a church door in ____ in 1517. a) Wittenberg b) Berlin c) Munich 6. ____ declared himself the only Supreme head on earth of the Church of England in 1534. a) Elizabeth I b) Edward VI c) Henry VIII d) Mary of Scots 7. ___ defines the artistic, literary and scientific revival which took place in Europe from 14th mid 17th Century. a) Restoration b) Renaissance c) Humanism 8. The notion of ___ is someone equally capable of high success in different fields of expertise, and himself both an exemplar and celebrant of that proud humanity, physical and mental, which characterised the Renaissance world. a) Humanist b) Renaissance Man c) Polyglot 9. The English Renaissance is dated from either c. 1476, with the ____ into England, or ___ with the arrival of Tudor dynasty. a) Introduction of printing / 1485 b) Introduction of Reformation / 1476 c) Introduction of Protestantism / 1475 10. Elizabethan designates the reign of Queen Elizabeth from __ to ___, and the literature, art, music and architecture produced in those years.

a) 1485-1616 b) 1508-1603 c) 1558-1603 11. Which are the major achievements of the English Renaissance? i) enhancement of national identity and pride ii) English as international power iii) inception of a capitalist economy iv) successful wave of literary personalities a) i & iv b) ii & iv c) i, iii & iv d) all the above 12. Which are the major achievements of literature during Renaissance? i) founding of schools (Oxbridge) ii) widespread translation of religious, classical and literary works iii) building of theatres in England iv) rapid upsurge in dramatic writing a) i & iv b) ii & iv c) i, iii & iv d) all the above 13. King James I, of England, Scotland and Ireland reigned the Great Britain from ___ to ___. a) 1558 1603 b) 1603- 1625 c) 1613 1625 d) 1558 1625 14. The Pilgrim Fathers sailed to ___ in 1620 a) New England b) India c) South Africa 15. ___ refers to the struggle between Parliament and Charles I. a) The Great Rebellion b) Bishops war c) War of the Roses 16. In his Moriae encomium (Praise of Folly) (1511), a satire on clerical abuses, corruption and ignorance and ends with praise of Christian folly. Its title is a pun on the name of his greatest English friend. Who is this friend? a) William Grocyn b) Linacre c) Latimer d) More 17. In Utopia, who described the happy island state where all things are held in common? a) More b) Erasmus c) Hytholodaeus 18. Utopia was published in 1516 in Latin and the English Translation was published in ___. a) 1551 b) 1511 c) 1561 d) 1541 19. William Tyndale published his English translation of New Testament at Worms in ___. a) 1525 b) 1524 c) 1523 d) 1526 20. The Booke named Governor, a humanist treatise on moral education is a work by ___. a) T. S. Eliot b) George Eliot c) Thomas Elyot 21. Henry Howard praised the handsome appearance of ____ like this: force and beauty met. Who is the man? a) Richard Tottell b) Thomas Wyatt c) George Gascoigne 22. Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce the ___ form into England

23. ___ is the first example of blank verse in English. a) Iliad b) Aeneid c) Odyssey 24. Match the works with its description. a) The Supposes - First English Regular Verse Satire (b) b) The Steel Glass - First English Prose comedy (a) c) Jocasta - First Critical Essay (d) d) Notes of Instructions - First translation of a Greek tragedy (c) 25. Who is the author of the above given works? a) Udall b) William Stevenson c) George Gascoigne 26. __ was the first to domesticate the Blank verse form in English. Henry Howard 27. ___ is a critical treatise, published in 1595, which defended Imaginative Literature. a) Apologie for Poetrie b) School of Abuse c) Notes of Instruction 28. Apologie for Poetrie was a reply to ___s School of Abuse. a) Gossons b) Gascoignes Sidneys 29. Arcadia was dedicated to whom? a) Queen Elizabeth b) Raleigh c) Countess of Pembroke 30. Which is the first sonnet sequence in English? a) Delia b) Idea c) Astrophil & Stella 31. Astrophil & Stella presents an unsuccessful courtship in a series of scenes and emotional attitudes. It contains ___ sonnets and ___ songs. a) 88 & 11 b) 108 & 11 c) 98 & 11 32. __ was the home of novel. a) Italy b) France c) England 33. Lylys ___ published in 1579 was written designedly for the ladies. a) Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit b) Campaspe c) Endymion 34. Shakespeare took his ___s plot/ story from Robert Greenes Pandosto. a) Winters Tale b) As you Like it c) Cymbeline 35. ____ inspired Shakespeares As you Like it. a) Greenes Pandosto b) Ariostos Orlando Furioso c) Lodges Rosalynde 36. The other title of Nashes The Unfortunate Traveller is ___. a) The Life of Jack London b) The Life of Jack Wilton c) The Life of Jack Ripper 37. __, a collection of papers and correspondence of a Norfolk family, gave considerable insight into the domestic life of the renaissance period. a) Paston letters b) Mirror for Magistrates c) Tottells Miscellany

38. Toxophilus, written by Ascham is devoted to a sport/ activity. Which is the sport? a) Archery b) Fencing c) Hunting 39. Who is the first translator of Montaignes Essays? a) Wyatt b) Surrey c) Florio 40. ___ set out in search of El Dorado in 1595. a) Ascham b) Lyly c) Raleigh 41. Which is not a work by Raleigh? a) A Discovery of the Empire of Guiana b) The Pilgrimage c) The Discoveries d) Rules to be Observed in Scottish Poetry 42. Gascoignes Notes of Instructions gives valuable criticism on ___ . a) drama b) Blank verse c) Prosody 43. Match the critic & work. a) Apologie for Poetrie - James I (c) b) School of Abuse - Sidney (a) c) Rules to be Observed in Scottish Poetry - William Webbe (d) d) Discourse of English poesies - Gosson (b) 44. Shakespeare used ___ as the source for most of his History plays like Macbeth and Cymbeline. a) Norths Lives b) Holinsheds Chronicles c) Daniels Civil War 45. Songs and Sonnets is usually called____, is ascribed as the first printed anthology of English poetry. Tottells miscellany 46. ___ translated Plutarchs Lives to English, and was a source from which Shakespeare drew materials for his Roman plays. a) Thomas North b) Raphael Holinshed c) Samuel Daniel 47. Match the speaker with the quote (On Spenser). a) Poets poet - Keats (c) b) Sage & serious writer - Lamb (a) c) Elphins poet - James Thompson (d) d) Fantasys pleasing son - Milton (b) 48. The final line in a Spenserian stanza is __. a) Iambic pentameter b) Iambic Hexameter c) Trochaic Hexameter 49. Sidney published his Shepherds Calendar under the pseudonym ___. a) Colin Clout b) Immerito c) Astrophil 50. ___ is a pastoral elegy upon the death of Philip Sindney, written by Spenser. a) Astrophil b) Astrophil and Stella c) Shepherds Calendar