1.
Which of the following characters is NOT found in the dramatis personae ofWilliam Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” ?
2.
John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses attention on the relationship between which opposing entities ?
3.
Fill in the blank. The term “Renaissance” literally translates as “_____________” ?
4.
What text greatly popularized the sonnet form in England during the Elizabethan period ?
5.
Who was in charge of organizing court festivities and entertainment of the English court ?
6.
Sir Thomas More wrote what famous text ?
7.
Fill in the blank. Although there is dispute about the actual “invention” of the printing press with movable metal type, _________ is usually the man credited with the invention.
8.
On which of the following topics did Sir Thomas More focus in his “Utopia” ?
9.
Which of the following theaters could be found in England after Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne ?
10.
What Renaissance text uses martyrology as a device to historicize the conflict between the true Church and the false Church in England ?
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