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RENAISSANCE LITERARY PERIOD

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Renaissance Literary Period is divided into ____ subperiods.

a)

6

b)

5

c)

4

d)

7

2.

Who wrote The Shepheardes Calendar?

a)

Christopher Marlowe

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Edmund Spencer

d)

Ben Jonson

3.

Which subperiod do William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe belong to?

a)

Early Tudor Period

b)

Jacobean Period

c)

Elizabethan Period

d)

Caroline Age

e)

Commonwealth Period

4.

Who wrote Tamburlaine the Great?

a)

Edmund Spencer

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Ben Jonson

d)

Christopher Marlowe

5.

In Latin, how is James' name written?

a)

Jamey

b)

Jacob

c)

Jacobus

d)

Jack

6.

Which sub period do William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Donne belong to?

a)

Early Tudor

b)

Elizabethan

c)

Jacobean

d)

Caroline Age

e)

Commonwealth

7.

What literary work did Ben Jonson write?

a)

Macbeth

b)

Every Man in His Humor

c)

Pseudo-Martyr

d)

Paradise Lost

8.

Who wrote Pseudo-Martyr?

a)

John Donne

b)

Ben Jonson

c)

Christopher Marlowe

d)

Edmund Spencer

9.

Charles in Latin is ....

a)

Charley

b)

Carol

c)

Chary

d)

Carolus

10.

Who wrote Paradise Lost?

a)

Ben Jonson

b)

John Donne

c)

John Milton

d)

George Hebert

11.

Who wrote The Works Both Human and Divine?

a)

Robert Herrick

b)

George Hebert

c)

John Milton

d)

Ben Jonson

12.

What literary work did George Hebert write?

a)

Every Man in His Humor

b)

The Country Parson

c)

Miscellaneous Poems

d)

Religio Medici

13.

Which Renaissance sub period do John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Sir Thomas Browne belong to?

a)

Early Tudor

b)

Elizabethan

c)

Jacobean

d)

Caroline Age

e)

Commonwealth

14.

Who wrote Miscellaneous Poems?

a)

John Milton

b)

Sir Thomas Browne

c)

Andrew Marvell

d)

George Hebert

15.

Who wrote Religio Medici?

a)

Sir Thomas Browne

b)

John Milton

c)

Andrew Marvell

d)

Robert Herrick

16.

Who wrote King Lear?

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Ben Jonson

c)

Christopher Marlowe

d)

John Milton

17.

What literary work did Shakespeare write?

a)

Macbeth

b)

Tamburlaine the Great

c)

The Country Parson

d)

Religio Medici