Cultural & Literary English Renaissance Mcqs | Set 5

MCQs 1: There was greater emphasis placed on human potentiality for growth and excellence through Europe by which year ?

1400

1500

1600

1650

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MCQs 2: Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author’s contemporaries?

“Euphues”

“Paradise Lost”

“Utopia”

“Zelauto”

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MCQs 3: Fill in the blank. In 1585, _______________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)?

Sir Thomas More

Sir Walter Raleigh

John Foxe

John Lyly

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MCQs 4: Fill in the blank. _______ was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation?

Niccolo Machiavelli

Martin Luther

John Milton

John Wycliffe

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MCQs 5: What doctrine significantly influenced Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia” ?

Marxism

Christian Humanism

Feminism

New Historicism

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MCQs 6: Which of the following plays were written by Christopher Marlowe ?

“The Jew of Malta”

“Doctor Faustus”

“Edward II”

All of the above

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MCQs 7: Many of William Shakespeare’s plays were performed at what theater in Elizabethan England ?

“The Curtain”

“The Globe”

“The Rose”

“The Anchor”

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MCQs 8: Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically ?

Sex

Emotions

Psychology

All of the above

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MCQs 9: Fill in the blank. Th …. was a movement that had profound implications not only for the modern world in general but also for literary history.

Catholic Restoration

Catholic Reformation

Protestant Reformation

None of these

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MCQs 10: Who wrote “Orlando Furioso” ?

John Milton

Ludovico Ariosto

Sir Philip Sidney

William Shakespeare

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MCQs 1: There was greater emphasis placed on human potentiality for growth and excellence through Europe by which year ?

MCQs 2: Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author’s contemporaries?

MCQs 3: Fill in the blank. In 1585, _______________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)?

MCQs 4: Fill in the blank. _______ was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation?

MCQs 5: What doctrine significantly influenced Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia” ?

MCQs 6: Which of the following plays were written by Christopher Marlowe ?

MCQs 7: Many of William Shakespeare’s plays were performed at what theater in Elizabethan England ?

MCQs 8: Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically ?

MCQs 9: Fill in the blank. Th …. was a movement that had profound implications not only for the modern world in general but also for literary history.

MCQs 10: Who wrote “Orlando Furioso” ?

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