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What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?

A. the Battle of Agincourt

B. the Battle of Hastings

C. the Norman Conquest

D. the War of the Roses

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D. the War of the Roses


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Which was Marlowes first play?

A. Dr.Faustus

B. Tamburlaine

C. The Tragedy of Dido

D. The Jew of Malta

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University Wits were those who:

A. Had training at two universities

B. gave curriculum of two universities

C. Erected two universities

D. None of the above

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What event resulted from the premature death of Henry V?

A. the Battle of Agincourt

B. the Battle of Hastings

C. the Norman Conquest

D. the War of the Roses

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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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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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Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry?

A. Bede

B. Sir Thomas Malory

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Caedmon

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During Spencers visit to his Kinsfolk in Lancashire he felt in love a woman and who figures as__________________ much of his work:

A. Rosalind

B. Belinda

C. Both a and b

D. None of above

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Shakespeares only son Hamnet died in?

A. 1595

B. 1596

C. 1597

D. 1598

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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?

A. William Shakespeare

B. Thomas Kyd

C. John Dryden

D. John Donne

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Chaucer was made in-charge of many palaces,which of these was not in his charge?

A. Westminster Palace

B. Tower of London

C. St. Georges chapel at Windsor

D. Buckingham Palace

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The Prince Of Poets in his time, on whom grave the inscription is given?

A. Sir Philip Sidney

B. John Milton

C. Edmund Spencer

D. John Donne

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Who translated Utopia in English language:

A. Thomas More

B. Thomas lodge

C. Ralph Robinson

D. William Tyndale

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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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Which of the following best describes litote, a favorite rhetorical device in Old English poetry?

A. embellishment at the service of Christian doctrine

B. repetition of parallel syntactic structures

C. ironic understatement

D. stress on every third diphthong

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Ann Hathaway was _________ years older than Shakespeare:

A. 7

B. 8

C. 9

D. 10

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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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46How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil?

A. 16

B. 20

C. 24

D. 28

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Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?

A. the short story

B. the heroic epic

C. the morality play

D. the romance

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William Shakespeare born in:

A. 26 April 1567

B. 26 April 1566

C. 26 April 1565

D. 26 April 1564

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Marlowe born in________

A. 1562

B. 1563

C. 1564

D. 1565

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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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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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What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowes father?

A. Carpenter

B. Civil servant

C. Cobbler

D. Farmer

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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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What was vellum?

A. parchment made of animal skin

B. the service owed to a lord by his peasants (villeins)

C. unrhymed iambic pentameter

D. an unbreakable oath of fealty

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Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:

A. About 1611

B. About 1610

C. About 1609

D. About 1608

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Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of Old English poetry?

A. Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.

B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.

C. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.

D. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed.

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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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What is the first extended written specimen of Old English?

A. Boethiuss Consolidation of Philosophy

B. Saint Jeromes translation of the Bible

C. Malorys Morte Darthur

D. a code of laws promulgated by King Ethelbert

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At what famous university is Faustus a scholar?

A. Wittenburg

B. Sorbonne

C. Heidelberg

D. Cambridge