Monday 10 August 2020

Renaissance MCQS


1. "Renaissance" is a:
Italian word
Greek word
Spanish word
French word■

2. What is the meaning of "Renaissance":
Reveal, revel and reverie
Raillery, renunciation and recoup
Rebirth, revival,and re-awaking■

3. Renaissance first came to the:
France
Italy■
England
Rome

4.Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance:
14th and 16th
16th
15th■

5.Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance?
Marlowe
Milton
Spencer■
Johnson

6.He was not a Renaissance writer
William Shakespeare
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Thomas Malory■
Christopher Marlowe

7.The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the:
Aristocracy
New Age
Enlightenment■

8.Who is considered as the model of the people during the Reformation renaissance?
 Greek and Austrian
Roman and French
Roman and Greek■

9.Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the French and Greek Renaissance art?Realism
Perspective
Individualism
Abstraction■

10.What sparked the Renaissance?
The 95 theses"
The Crusades
The Black Plague
The Feudal system was collapsing■


11.Who lost the most power during the renaissance?
Italian merchants
Black people
Catholic church■
King and queen of Spain

12.Utopia was written by:
Poliziano
Cervantes
Thomas More
Machiavelli

13.The Prince was written to gain favour of the:
Pazzi
Medici
Republic
Inquisition■

14.Who translated the New Testament into German for the first time?
Poliziano
Martin Luther■
Alexander VI
Cervantes

15.The "father of Humanism" was
Dante
Boccaccio
Pico della Mirandola
Petrarch■

16.Renaissance thinkers argued that women should be educated,
Just the same as men
With emphasis on science and mathematics
Confined solely to music, dancing, and knitting not at all■

17.An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on,
Alchemy and magic
The literature of Greece and Rome■
Chivalry of the Middle Ages
The teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas

18.Which was NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance?
Emphasis on individuality
Confidence in human rationality
The development of social insurance programs
The emergence of merchant oligarchies

19.The northern Renaissance differed
from the Italian Renaissance.
Earlier occurrence
Geater appreciation of pagan writers
Growth of religious activity among common people
Decline in the use of Latin

20.For ordinary women, the Renaissance,
Greatly improved the material conditions of their lives
Worsened their social status
Allowed them access to education for the first time.
Had very little impact■

21.Thomas More's Utopia placed the blame for society's problems on God's will,
Human nature
The Church
Society itself■

22.Which of the following are University wits:
John Gower and Robert Peele
John Skelton and Thomas lodge
John Lyly and Robert Greene■
John Donne and Thomas Nashe

23.University Wits were those who:
Gave curriculum of two universities
Erected two universities
Had training at two universities■

24.Who was born in 1422:
Robert Henry
William Caxton■
John Lyly
Thomas more

25. Utopia was first printed in:1517
1615
1516■
1518

26.Who translated Utopia in English language:
Thomas More
Ralph Robinson■
Thomas lodge
William Tyndale

27.The first complete version of Bible in English language was made by:
John Lyly
Thomas Nash
Thomas more
Wycliffe■

28.Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in 1518?
Robert Greene
Thomas Wyatt■
Thomas More
Thomas lodge

29.Who wrote "Mirror for Magistrates"?
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas lodge
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Sacville■

30. Philip Sidney was born on 30th November:
1553
1555
1550
1554■

31. "Astrophel and Stella" is a:
Allegory
Epic
Sonnet■



32.Greville was biographer of:
Edmund Spencer
Ballad
John Donne
Sir Philip Sidney■
John Milton

33."The Prince of Poets in his time", on whom grave the inscription is given?
Sir Philip Sidney
Edmund Spencer
John Milton
John Donne

34.What is Faerie Queene:
An epic
A ballad
A sonnet
An allegory■

35.In whose reign Morality plays began?
Elizabeth one
Henry five
Henry six■
Henry eight

36.Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
The Faerie Queene
The Shepheardes Calender■
Colin Clouts come home again
Complaints

37.Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries:
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
John Donne■
Sir Philip Sidney

38.The first regular English comedy, based on the model of the Latin comedy, is attributed to?
Lord Burghley
Thomas Kyd
Nicholas Udall■

39.1558-95 achieved great popularity with which of his first work?
Thomas Colwell
The Spanish Tragedy■
The Rare Triumphs of love and fortune
Jeronimo
Cornelia

40.Who succeeded Lyly?
Philip Sidney
John Milton
Christopher Marlowe
Robert Greene■

41.Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557
Thomas Nah
Thomas lodge■
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Kyd

42.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

43.Who wrote "Holy Sonnets"?
Edmund Spenser
John Donne■
John Milton
Shakespeare

44."On his blindness", a collection of sonnets is written by
:D.H. Lawrence
John Milton■
Edmund Spenser
Shakespeare

45.In "Paradise regained" who regained the paradise?
Adam
Satan
Jesus
Adam and Eve■
Only Adam

46.Which of the following published in 1579 and although it placed Spencer immediately in the highest rank of living writers?
Faerie queen, first three books
The Shepheardes Calender■
Faerie queen, second three books
Colin clouts come home again

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