Elizabethan Age Quiz

What does the term 'Renaissance' mean?

• Rebirth

• Revolution

• Reformation

• Rebellion

Which event is considered the starting point of the Renaissance?

• Industrial Revolution

• French Revolution

• Discovery of America

• Fall of Constantinople

Which country played a significant role in spreading the Renaissance to the rest of Europe?

• Spain

• Italy

• France

• England

What was the main emphasis in Italy during the Renaissance?

• Painting and Sculpture

• Literature

• Science

• Religion

Which explorer circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope?

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco Da Gama

What impact did the Renaissance have on people's ways of thought?

• Isolation from the rest of the world

• Rejection of classical learning

• Blind faith in the Church

• Questioning the authority of the Church

Who is considered an example of a Renaissance character in literature?

• Christopher Marlowe

• John Milton

• William Shakespeare

• Geoffrey Chaucer

Which two courtiers are credited with starting modern English poetry?

• Sir Thomas Wyatt and The Earl of Surrey

• Lord Byron and Robert Browning

• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Which book contained the poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt and The Earl of Surrey?

• The Canterbury Tales

• Divine Comedy

• Paradise Lost

• Tottel's Miscellany

Who introduced the Sonnet form in English poetry?

• William Shakespeare

• The Earl of Surrey

• Sir Thomas Wyatt

• John Donne