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Faustus servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?

A. Bach

B. Schumann

C. Beethoven

D. Wagner

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D. Wagner


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Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:

A. Edmund Spenser

B. John Milton

C. John Donne

D. Sir Philip Sidney

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How did Henry II, the first of Englands Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France?

A. the Battle of Hastings

B. Saint Patricks mission

C. the Fourth Lateran Council

D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

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Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?

A. Marlowe

B. Milton

C. Spencer

D. Johnson

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Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?

A. tenth

B. eleventh

C. twelfth

D. fourteenth

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Faustus servant shares his name with a famous German composer. Who?

A. Bach

B. Schumann

C. Beethoven

D. Wagner

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Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?

A. Valdes and Cornelius

B. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

C. Troilus and Cressida

D. Pyramus and Thisbe

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Popular English adaptations of romances appealed primarily to

A. the royal family and upper orders of the nobility

B. the lower orders of the nobility

C. agricultural laborers

D. the clergy

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Who was the first English Christian king?

A. Alfred

B. Richard III

C. Richard II

D. Ethelbert

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Utopia was first printed in:

A. 1615

B. 1516

C. 1517

D. 1518

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Marlowes play Tamburlaine the Great was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?

A. Zhu Yuanzhang

B. Genghis Khan

C. Timur

D. Kublai Khan

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Shakespeare is buried inside the:

A. Westminster Abbey

B. Trinity Church

C. Protestant Cemetery

D. None of above

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At what famous university is Faustus a scholar?

A. Wittenburg

B. Sorbonne

C. Heidelberg

D. Cambridge

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What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowes father?

A. Carpenter

B. Civil servant

C. Cobbler

D. Farmer

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Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:

A. The Faerie Queene

B. The shepheaedes Calendar

C. Complaints

D. Colin Clouts come home again

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The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200?

A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.

B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.

C. Their readers primary language was English.

D. a and c only

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Ancrene Riwle is a manual of instruction for

A. courtiers entering the service of Richard II

B. translators of French romances

C. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

D. knights preparing for their first tournament

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which of these kings was not served by Chaucer?

A. Edward III

B. Henry II

C. Richard II

D. None of the above

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Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?

A. Dantes Divine Comedy

B. Boccaccios Decameron

C. The Dream of the Rood

D. Chaucers Legend of Good Women

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Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance:

A. 14 th

B. 15 th

C. 16 th

D. 14 th and 16 th

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In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the floweringof Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?

A. Geoffrey of Monmouth

B. the Gawain poet

C. the Beowulf poet

D. Chr�tien de Troyes

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Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in 1518?

A. Thomas Nash

B. Thomas More

C. Thomas lodge

D. Thomas Wyatt

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He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.

A. 18, 1582

B. 17, 1581

C. 16, 1580

D. 15, 1579

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Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved great popularity with which of his first work?

A. The Rare Triumphs of love and fortune

B. The Spanish Tragedy

C. Jeronimo

D. Cornelia

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Philip Sidney was born on 30th November:

A. 1553

B. 1554

C. 1555

D. 1550

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Spencer married in June 11, 1594 to ?

A. Elizabeth Wilton D/O Lord Grey De Wilton

B. Elizabeth Raleigh D/O Walter Raleigh

C. Elizabeth Boyle D/O James Boyle

D. Elizabeth Boyle D/O Richard Boyle

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One of Marlowes earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem Pharsalia, written by which Roman poet?

A. Ovid

B. Lucan

C. Virgil

D. Horace

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After __________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London.

A. two

B. three

C. four

D. five

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in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French?

A. 1360

B. 1357

C. 1378

D. 1358

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In Marlowes play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta?

A. Lazarus

B. Solomon

C. Barabas

D. Shylock

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Who wrote Mirror for Magistrates?

A. Thomas Sacville

B. Thomas Wyatt

C. Thomas lodge

D. Thomas Kyde