1) Renaissance education was based primarily on :
- Latin and Classical Literature
2) Renaissance writers studied Cicero to
- Improve their writing and speaking style
3) Renaissance writers studied Horace to
- To learn the theory of poetry
4) Renaissance writers studied Quintilian to
- To learn rhetorical figures
5) The aim of Renaissance education was
- Improving fluency and public speaking
6) Pastoral poetry was considered during the Renaissance
- The humblest form of poetry
7) Epic poetry was considered during the Renaissance
- The most prestigious form of poetry
8) The sonnet was considered during the Renaissance
- The most popular form of poetry
9) Metaphysical poetry was considered during the Renaissance
- The most provocative form of poetry
10) Renaissance poetry was written mostly about royal courts or for royal courts because
- Poets were paid by kings and princes
11) The home of the Petrarchan sonnet was
- Italy
12) The home of the Shakespearean sonnet was
- England
13) Which Renaissance poet is credited for popularizing the sonnet across Europe
- Petrarch
14) The first part of the Petrarchan poem is called
- The Octave
15) The second part of the Petrarchan poem is called
- The sestet
16) Which poet wrote social verse with classical clarity and an ideal of civilized
reasonableness
- Ben Johnson
17) Which one of the following poem was written by Robert Herick
- Upon Julia's Clothes
18) The first generation of professional English playwrights were called
- University Wits
19) Which one of Christopher Marlow's poems embodies the classic concept of carpe
diem
- The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
20) Metaphysical poets were famous for using
- Clever and witty language
21) What did the three strange women tell Macbeth
- A prophecy
22) A paradox is a contradiction that
- Somehow proves fitting or true
23) Which form of poetry in the Renaissance was concerned with the live of shepherds
- Pastoral poetry
24) Conceit is :
- A metaphor that builds an analogy between two things or situations that are usually
comparable
25) The most profound influence on English Renaissance Poetry was
- Classical poetry
26) A monologue in which a dramatic character appears to be thinking out loud is called
- Soliloquy
27) Humanism means that
- Important questions of life and death, good and evil , politics and government , ceased being
talked about exclusively from the perspective of the church , and started being talked about
from the perspective of human beings .
28) The person most credited for launching the Reformation was
- A German priest called Martin Luther
29) Which one of the poetry in the Renaissance is defined >>>>>>>> country-house
estates ?
- Country House poems
30) The purpose of Renaissance poetry was
- To teach and to please
31) Which form of poetry is said to have produced over three hundreds thousands
poems in the 16th century
- The sonnet
32) Elizabethan plays were often published
- After they were performed
33) Which poets were famous for using "conceits" , "paradoxes " and " far-fetched
imagery
- The Metaphysical poets
34) Which one of the following poems is an epic
- Paradise Lost
35) Which one of the following poems is a sonnet
- On His Blindness
36) Which one of the following poems is a metaphysical poem
- Valediction : Forbidding Mourning
37) What was the mean reason behind the Reformation
- The greed and corruption of the church
38) As a result of the Reformation and European exploration , world >>>> shifted from
- The Mediterranean to the Atlantic
39) The Tithe was
- A tax that forced people to give one-tenth of their produce to the Church
40) The Renaissance also had negative effects like
- The slave trade and the occupation of Native American land