Scavenger Hunt--The English Renaissance

On pages 222 and 223, Shakespeare was born in . . .

• 1066

• 1594

• 1564

• 1625

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(On pages 222 & 223) This famous play was written in 1594

• Astrophel and Stella

• Beowulf

• The Faerie Queene

• Romeo and Juliet

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When was the King James Bible published?

• 1611

• 1549

• 1534

• 1500

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In the first paragraph on page 224, scholars react against what?

• The Tudors

• Ptolemy's math fro 2 A.D.

• German monks

• the "dark ages"

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This Catholic king remarried in defiance of the Pope, leading to birth of the Protestant denomination.

• King Henry VIII

• Queen Mary I

• King James I

• Martin Luther

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On page 228, the most significant literary development of the Renaissance was in:

• painting

• pastoral poetry

• poetry, especially the sonnet

• comedies

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Shakespeare was likely to be the first to use this list of words (page 232):

• kangaroo coconut, sushi

• taco, pious, courtship

• aerial, critic, lonely

• lip synch, poetry, wassail

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On page 237, Edmund Spenser uses which Greek mythological character in line 7?

• "In their amazement like Narcissus vain"

• "Of Helicon whence she derived is"

• "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!"

• "Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see"

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Look at the top of page 224. Click on any writers who lived during the English Renaissance

• Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

• Margaret Paston (1423-1484)

• Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

• Sir Thomas Mallory (1405?-1471)

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Read page 244, what do pastoral poems do?

• dramatize political figures

• celebrate the pleasures of city life and technology

• celebrate the pleasures of a simple life and use Greek and Roman mythology

• talked about being improsoned in the Tower of London

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