WorksheetsRenaissance Authors
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who is the father of the English sonnet?
a)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
b)
Sir Walter Raleigh
c)
Sir Philip Sidney
d)
Sir Edmund Spenser
2.
Who developed the modern scientific method of induction?
a)
Edward deVere
b)
Sir Francis Bacon
c)
Christopher Marlowe
d)
Sir Walter Raleigh
3.
Which author can be considered a Cavalier poet?
a)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
b)
Andrew Marvell
c)
Edmund Spenser
d)
Sir Philip Sidney
4.
Which author introduced the potato to Ireland?
a)
Sir Francis Bacon
b)
Robert Herrick
c)
Sir Walter Raleigh
d)
Ben Jonson
5.
Which author is considered the perfect Renaissance man?
a)
Richard Lovelace
b)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c)
Sir Francis Bacon
d)
Sir Walter Raleigh
6.
What phrase best exemplified the Cavalier poets?
a)
Carpe Diem
b)
Semper Fidelis
c)
Ergo Propter Hoc
d)
Carpe Unum
7.
Who was rumored to have had an affair with Anne Boleyn?
a)
Edward deVere
b)
Sir Walter Raleigh
c)
Richard Lovelace
d)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
8.
Which author brought the Petrarchan sonnet to England?
a)
Sir Philip Sidney
b)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c)
Sir Francis Bacon
d)
Edward deVere
9.
Which author was known as the father of English literary criticism?
a)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
b)
Sir Walter Raleigh
c)
Sir Philip Sidney
d)
Andrew Marvell
10.
Which author is the father of modern historical writing?
a)
Sir Walter Raleigh
b)
Sir Francis Bacon
c)
Christopher Marlowe
d)
Ben Jonson
11.
Who was thought to have been Queen Elizabeth's one true love?
a)
Richard Lovelace
b)
Sir Walter Raleigh
c)
Edward deVere
d)
Christopher Marlowe
12.
What technique did Christopher Marlowe introduce?
a)
sonnet writing
b)
blank verse
c)
dactylic tetrameter
d)
extended metaphor
13.
Which author is considered a metaphysical poet?
a)
Robert Herrick
b)
John Donne
c)
Andrew Marvell
d)
Ben Jonson
14.
Aemilia Lanyer was the only female Renaissance author of note. To whom did she address her poetry?
a)
the king
b)
her lover
c)
women
d)
God
15.
Who became the poet laureate of English before his death?
a)
Sir Francis Bacon
b)
Christopher Marlowe
c)
Ben Jonson
d)
Robert Herrick
16.
The Renaissance authors differed from Medieval authors because their focus became what?
a)
the meaning of life
b)
understanding God
c)
worldly affairs and the expansion of the human mind
d)
the beauty of nature
17.
Which author used the technique of metaphysical conceit?
a)
Ben Jonson
b)
Christopher Marlowe
c)
John Donne
d)
Andrew Marvell
18.
Which author is considered a noted English dramatist?
a)
Sir Philip Sidney
b)
Edward deVere
c)
Christopher Marlowe
d)
John Donne
19.
What state is Sir Walter Raleigh credited with discovering?
a)
North Carolina
b)
Massachusetts
c)
New York
d)
Virginia
20.
Which two authors wrote predominatly prose?
a)
Bacon and Raleigh
b)
Bacon and Spenser
c)
Raleigh and Marvell
d)
Sidney and deVere
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