Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance:
14 th
15 th
16 th
14 th and 16 th
Correct Answer :
B. 15 th
Related Questions
Renaissance first came to the:
France
Italy
England
Rome
what was the duration of hundred years war?
1300 to 1350
1337 to 1453
1302 to 1343
None of the above
Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury?
Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.
The common people were still essentially pagan.
They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.
The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.
in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French?
1360
1357
1378
1358
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
In Paradise regained who regained the paradise?
Satan
Jesus
Adam and Eve
Only Adam
What is Faerie Queene:
An allegory
An epic
A ballad
A sonnet
Chaucer became a page to which kings daughter-in-law?
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV
None of the above
The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by:
Wyclif
Thomas more
John Lyly
Robert Greene
Who wrote The Massacre at Paris?
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
john Milton
Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?
tenth
eleventh
twelfth
fourteenth
After __________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London.
two
three
four
five
What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowes father?
Carpenter
Civil servant
Cobbler
Farmer
Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers?
Colin clouts come home again
Faerie queen, first three books
The Shepherds calendar
Faerie queen, second three books
After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem Hero and Leander?
Shakespeare
Thomas Nash
George Chapman
Thomas More
Who wrote following lines:…….. I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
John Milton
Earnest Hemingway
d. H. Lawrence
Greville was biographer of:
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
what was chaucers profession?
a poet
a merchant
a civil servant
None of the above
The collection of the papers and correspondence of a well-to-do Norfolk family is known as:
Letters to the Margret Paston
Margret Paston to John Paston
The Paston letters
To John Paston
In what country is Dr Faustus based?
England
Italy
France
Germany
In the title of Marlowes play, of where was Dido the Queen?
Troy
Carthage
Sparta
Persia
Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
the Normans
the Geats
the Celts
the Anglo-Saxons
The Prince Of Poets in his time, on whom grave the inscription is given?
Sir Philip Sidney
John Milton
Edmund Spencer
John Donne
William Shakespeare was……. child of John and Mary:
second
fourth
third
fifth
which of these kings was not served by Chaucer?
Edward III
Henry II
Richard II
None of the above
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
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
Who translated Utopia in English language:
Thomas More
Thomas lodge
Ralph Robinson
William Tyndale
In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the floweringof Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers?
Geoffrey of Monmouth
the Gawain poet
the Beowulf poet
Chr�tien de Troyes
When, is it estimated, was Dr Faustus first performed?
1594
1604
1590
1593