What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomews Day Massacre in 1572?

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What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomews Day Massacre in 1572?

A. The Massacre at Berlin

B. The Massacre at Rome

C. The Massacre at Copenhagen

D. The Massacre at Paris

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Who wrote Mirror for Magistrates?

A. Thomas Sacville

B. Thomas Wyatt

C. Thomas lodge

D. Thomas Kyde

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Paradise lost was lost by:

A. Eve

B. Adam

C. Both a and b

D. Satan

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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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The use of whale-roadfor sea and life-housefor body are examples of what literary technique, popular in Old English poetry?

A. symbolism

B. simile

C. metonymy

D. kenning

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Chaucer became a member of Parliament in………..?

A. 1386

B. 1300

C. 1343

D. 1350

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What is Christopher Marlowes Nationality?

A. British

B. German

C. Dutch

D. American

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Greville was biographer of:

A. Edmund Spencer

B. John Donne

C. Sir Philip Sidney

D. John Milton

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After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem Hero and Leander?

A. Shakespeare

B. Thomas Nash

C. George Chapman

D. Thomas More

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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 was Marlowes first play?

A. Dr.Faustus

B. Tamburlaine

C. The Tragedy of Dido

D. The Jew of Malta

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Which king began a war to enforce his claims to the throne of France in 1336?

A. Henry II

B. Henry III

C. Henry V

D. Edward III

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Which of the Marlowes plays were written in collaboration with Thomas Nash?

A. Queen of Carthage and The passionate Shepherd.

B. The tragedy of Dido and Queen of Carthage.

C. The passionate Shepherd and The tragedy of Dido.

D. Queen of Carthage and The Massacre of Paris.

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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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Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true?

A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.

B. She was a virgin martyr.

C. She is the first known woman writer in the English vernacular.

D. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.

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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 declared him as Britains greatest dramatist in 1598?

A. Queen Elizabeth

B. Francis Meres, a lawyer

C. Burbage, an actor

D. King James

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Who wrote Holy Sonnets?

A. Edmund Spenser

B. John Donne

C. Shakespeare

D. John Milton

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Which of the following are University wits:

A. John Gower and Robert Peele

B. John Skelton and Thomas lodge

C. John Lyly and Robert Greene

D. John Donne and Thomas Nashe

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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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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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Who wrote following lines:…….. I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

A. John Donne

B. John Milton

C. Earnest Hemingway

D. d. H. Lawrence

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chaucer was fined in 1367 or 1366 for…………..?

A. beating a friar in a London street

B. for writing poetry against the church

C. for crossing the border of Great Britain

D. None of the above

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one of Chaucers daughter was…………?

A. a musician

B. an astronomer

C. a nun

D. None of the above

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Which of the following qualities would most accurately describe Faustus character at the beginning of the play?

A. kind

B. stupid

C. sensitive

D. arrogant

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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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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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Who wrote The Massacre at Paris?

A. Shakespeare

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Edmund Spenser

D. john Milton

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What is Faerie Queene:

A. An allegory

B. An epic

C. A ballad

D. A sonnet

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Renaissance first came to the:

A. France

B. Italy

C. England

D. Rome

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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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D. The Massacre at Paris

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