Paradise lost was lost by:
Eve
Adam
Both a and b
Satan
Correct Answer :
C. Both a and b
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Renaissance is a:
French word
Italian word
Greek word
Spanish word
Shakespeares only son Hamnet died in?
1595
1596
1597
1598
Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?
Henry II
Henry III
Henry V
Edward III
What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowes father?
Carpenter
Civil servant
Cobbler
Farmer
He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.
18, 1582
17, 1581
16, 1580
15, 1579
what did Chaucers wife use to do?
lady-in-waiting to Queen Philip pa of Hainaut
nurse of royal court
governess to Henry IV
None of the above
In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
banishment to Asia
everlasting shame
conversion to Christianity
mild melancholia
What was vellum?
parchment made of animal skin
the service owed to a lord by his peasants (villeins)
unrhymed iambic pentameter
an unbreakable oath of fealty
What is the climax of Geoffrey of Monmouths The History of the Kings of Britain?
the reign of King Arthur
the coronation of Henry II
King Johns seal of the Magna Carta
the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Which powerful figure does Faustus ridicule with his new-found powers?
The Pope
The Holy Roman Emperor
The King of England
The King of France
Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?
embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine
repetition of parallel syntactic structures
ironic understatement
stress on every third diphthong
Marlowes play Tamburlaine the Great was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?
Zhu Yuanzhang
Genghis Khan
Timur
Kublai Khan
Astrophel and Stella is a:
Allegory
Epic
Sonnet
Ballad
What is Christopher Marlowes Nationality?
British
German
Dutch
American
what was the occupation of Chaucers father?
leather merchant
civil servant
a vintner
None of the above
What is the meaning of Renaissance:
Rebirth, revival and re-awaking
Reveal, revel and reverie
Raillery, renunciation and recoup
None of the above
In Marlowes play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta?
Lazarus
Solomon
Barabas
Shylock
Marlowes poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love begins with the line Come live with me and be my love; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line?
William Shakespeare
Thomas Kyd
John Dryden
John Donne
Chaucer was released from legal action by …………………… in a deed of May 1, 1380 from rape and abduction?
Miss Cecily Chaumpaigne
Philippa de Roet of Flanders
Agnes de Copton
None of the above
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
William Shakespeare was……. child of John and Mary:
second
fourth
third
fifth
Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?
Valdes and Cornelius
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Troilus and Cressida
Pyramus and Thisbe
The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by:
Wyclif
Thomas more
John Lyly
Robert Greene
What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomews Day Massacre in 1572?
The Massacre at Berlin
The Massacre at Rome
The Massacre at Copenhagen
The Massacre at Paris
Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
the Normans
the Geats
the Celts
the Anglo-Saxons
Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry?
Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed.
chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for…………..?
beating a friar in a London street
for writing poetry against the church
for crossing the border of Great Britain
None of the above
Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures?
Beowulf
Arthur
Caedmon
Augustine of Canterbury
Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
Dantes Divine Comedy
Boccaccios Decameron
The Dream of the Rood
Chaucers Legend of Good Women
From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education? Corpus Christi College
Cambridge
oxford
witternburg
Harvard