Question: Christopher Marlowe’s “Faustus” is an example of what dramatic genre ?
- 1. Romance
- 2. Satire
- 3. Comedy
- 4. Tragedy
Question: 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 ?
- 1. “Paradise Lost”
- 2. “Canterbury Tales”
- 3. “The Bible”
- 4. “Piers Plowman”
Question: Fill in the blank. ____________ is remembered as the “Morning Star of the Reformation”.
- 1. John Donne
- 2. John Dryden
- 3. John Wycliffe
- 4. Johan Gutenberg
Question: Which of the following writers remained a firm believer in the Royal Supremacy ?
- 1. John Locke
- 2. John Lyly
- 3. John Foxe
- 4. John Milton
Question: “The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses” is an example of what dramatic genre ?
- 1. Masque
- 2. Satire
- 3. Burlesque
- 4. Tragedy
Question: King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?
- 1. Catholicism
- 2. Protestantism
- 3. Buddhism
- 4. Roman Catholicism
Question: 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 ?
- 1. “Canterbury Tales”
- 2. “The Faerie Queen”
- 3. “Paradise Lost”
- 4. “The Prelude”
Question: 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.” ?
- 1. Medieval
- 2. Victorian
- 3. Romantic
- 4. None of the above
Question: 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?
- 1. Masque
- 2. Satire
- 3. Tragedy
- 4. Comedy
Question: Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?
- 1. Chaucer
- 2. Langland
- 3. Homer
- 4. Shakespeare