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RENAISSANCE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the meaning of Renaissance?

a)

Rebirth

b)

Movement

c)

A kind of Literature

d)

Resurrection

2.

Who is the inventor of printing through movable types?

a)

Edmund Spencer

b)

Gutenberg

c)

Marlowe

d)

Dr Faustus

3.

The ___________ changed the interpretation of the relation of the individual Christian to the church and God.

a)

Humanists

b)

Ben Jonson

c)

Reformists

d)

King James Bible

4.

Who is the great genius of the Elizabeth Age (1564 – 1616) He wrote more than 35 plays?

a)

William Langland

b)

William Wordsworth

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

William Paze

5.

Who wrote the prose masterpiece of the century “The Pilgrim’s Progress” (1678)?

a)

John Bunyan

b)

John Milton

c)

John Keats

d)

King John

6.

In which pay do we get the lines:

" Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy"?

a)

Hamlet

b)

Macbeth

c)

Othello

d)

King Lear

7.

Which pay of Shakespeare is known as the pay of 'procrastination'?

a)

Julius Caesar

b)

Hamlet

c)

Merchant of Venice

d)

King Lear

8.

Which pay is known as an instance of Renaissance Play during this period?

a)

Othello

b)

Dr Faustus

c)

Edward II

d)

King Lear

9.

Which play of Shakespeare is also known as 'A play within a play' or the 'Mouse Trap'?

a)

Macbeth

b)

Twelfth Night

c)

Hamlet

d)

Much Ado About Nothing

10.

How many sonnets were by William Shakespeare?

a)

37

b)

154

c)

125

d)

180