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WorksheetsScavenger Hunt--The English Renaissance
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
On pages 222 and 223, Shakespeare was born in . . .
1066
1594
1564
1625
(On pages 222 & 223) This famous play was written in 1594
Astrophel and Stella
Beowulf
The Faerie Queene
Romeo and Juliet
When was the King James Bible published?
1611
1549
1534
1500
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"
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
On page 228, the most significant literary development of the Renaissance was in:
painting
pastoral poetry
poetry, especially the sonnet
comedies
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
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"
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)
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
(Pages 244-245) Who is the "love" in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"?
Philomel
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Nymph
Go to page 231. What is the among the most widely quoted and influential words works in the English language?
The prose of Sidney, Nashe, and Raleigh
The King James Bible, or Authorized version
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Unfortunate Traveler
On page 266 in from Utopia, Sir Thomas Moore says that kings and prince's should:
"act as a jailor rather than as a king"
"wage wars in live in royal style"
encourage trade and taxing citizens
"take more care of his people's happiness than his own, as a shepherd ought to take more care of his flock than of himself"
On page 275, the Bible uses the genres of:
psalms, sermons, and plays
psalms, sermons, and poetry
prose, sermons, and poetry
psalms, sermons, and parables
(Page 290) The Globe was previously named
The Playhouse
Broadway
The Theater
The Auditorium
