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

• 1. Trochaic trimeter
• 2. Terza rima
• 3. Iambic pentameter
• 4. Anapestic pentameter

Question: Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the______________ age in England was over religion?

• 1. Hanover
• 2. Protestant
• 3. Tudor
• 4. None of these

Question: John Lyly’s work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer ?

• 1. William Blake
• 2. William Wordsworth
• 3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 4. William Shakespeare

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

• 1. Clowns
• 2. Women
• 3. Politicians
• 4. Pantomimes

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

• 1. John Foxe
• 2. John Lyly
• 3. Sir Thomas More
• 4. Sir Walter Raleigh

Question: What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?

• 1. Tragedies
• 2. Comedies
• 3. Romances
• 4. All of the above

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

• 1. Thomas Wyatt
• 2. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
• 3. John Donne
• 4. Both A and B

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

• 1. The idea that William Shakespeare never lived.
• 2. The idea that William Shakespeare was a Catholic.
• 3. All of the above
• 4. A and B only

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

• 1. “95 Theses”
• 2. “Utopia”
• 3. “Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit”
• 4. “Paradise Lost”

Question: 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 ?

• 1. Protestantism
• 2. Catholicism
• 3. Roman Catholicism
• 4. Buddhism