The Renaissance

What is the meaning of "Renaissance"?

• Revival of science

• Rebirth of learning and culture

• Expansion of the British Empire

• The beginning of the medieval period

Who issued the first imaginative book published in England?

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• William Shakespeare

• William Caxton

• Edmund Spenser

Which author wrote Le Morte D'Arthur?

• John Milton

• Sir Thomas Malory

• Philip Sidney

• Christopher Marlowe

What religious change did Henry VIII bring to England?

• Conversion to Catholicism

• Protestant Reformation

• Adoption of Calvinism

• Introduction of the Puritan movement

Which astronomer proposed the heliocentric theory in the Renaissance?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Aristotle

• Galileo

Who are considered the major dramatists of the English Renaissance?

• Spenser, Donne, and Milton

• Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Jonson

• Chaucer, Caxton, and More

• Wyatt, Sidney, and Howard

What major event happened during Queen Elizabeth I’s reign?

• The signing of the Magna Carta

• The defeat of the Spanish Armada

• The War of the Roses

• The Glorious Revolution

Which poet wrote The Faerie Queene?

• William Shakespeare

• Edmund Spenser

• John Donne

• Christopher Marlowe

Which Italian poet influenced the English Renaissance love sonnet?

• Dante Alighieri

• Francesco Petrarca

• Giovanni Boccaccio

• Niccolò Machiavelli

What type of plays were common before Shakespeare’s time?

• Mystery, miracle, morality, and interludes

• Romantic, historical, tragic, and satirical

• Modern, psychological, surrealist, and gothic

• Scientific, philosophical, epic, and dystopian