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Latter Period-English

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.
a)
Renaissance
b)
Humanism
c)
arts
d)
patron
2.

A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.

a)

Renaissance

b)

Humanism

c)

Arts

d)

Patronage

3.

The most famous English writer of the Renaissance, best known for his plays such as King Lear and A midsummer night's dream.

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Michelangelo

c)

Leonardo de Vinci

d)

Vasco de Gama

4.

The period during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I in England, from 1558 to 1603 A.D.

a)

Johann Gutenberg

b)

Elizabethan Age

c)

Renaissance Man

d)

Monarchy

5.

A machine for pressing paper against inked movable type.

a)

printing press

b)

printer

c)

steam engine

d)

ink printer

6.

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton were known for contributing what to the Renaissance?

a)

New concepts on the universe and science

b)

New trade routes and goods

c)

Books printed in local vernaculars

d)

New concepts on religion

7.
The Renaissance began in 
a)
England
b)
France
c)
Italy
d)
Constantinople
8.
  An Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.
a)
Florence
b)
city-state
c)
Leonardo Da Vinci
d)
Brunelleschi
9.
 The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar.  One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.
a)
Shakespeare
b)
Michelangelo
c)
Raphael
d)
Petrarch
10.
Which of the following people was an artist, scientist, inventor, and philosopher?
a)
Leonardo da Vinci
b)
William Shakespeare
c)
Miguel de Cervantes
d)
Dante Aligheri
11.

Art and literature of the Renaissance was influenced by ancient

a)

Anglo-Saxon

b)

Greek and Latin

c)

Anglo-Norman

d)

Old English

12.
A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.
a)
Renaissance
b)
Humanism
c)
arts
d)
patron
13.

A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.

a)

Renaissance

b)

Humanism

c)

Arts

d)

Patronage

14.

The most famous English writer of the Renaissance, best known for his plays such as King Lear and A midsummer night's dream.

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Michelangelo

c)

Leonardo de Vinci

d)

Vasco de Gama

15.

The period during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I in England, from 1558 to 1603 A.D.

a)

Johann Gutenberg

b)

Elizabethan Age

c)

Renaissance Man

d)

Monarchy

16.

A machine for pressing paper against inked movable type.

a)

printing press

b)

printer

c)

steam engine

d)

ink printer

17.

Sir Thomas More wrote the work

a)

Paradise Lost

b)

Gulliver's Travels

c)

The Canterbury Tales

d)

Utopia

18.
William Shakespeare wrote only theatre plays.
a)
True
b)
False
19.

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton were known for contributing what to the Renaissance?

a)

New concepts on the universe and science

b)

New trade routes and goods

c)

Books printed in local vernaculars

d)

New concepts on religion

20.
The Renaissance began in 
a)
England
b)
France
c)
Italy
d)
Constantinople
21.
  An Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.
a)
Florence
b)
city-state
c)
Leonardo Da Vinci
d)
Brunelleschi
22.
 The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar.  One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.
a)
Shakespeare
b)
Michelangelo
c)
Raphael
d)
Petrarch
23.
Which of the following people was an artist, scientist, inventor, and philosopher?
a)
Leonardo da Vinci
b)
William Shakespeare
c)
Miguel de Cervantes
d)
Dante Aligheri
24.
How did Renaissance writers like Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare influence later writers?
a)
by writing in Latin
b)
by creating the first newspapers
c)
by writing the Bible
d)
by writing in the common lanugage
25.

Spanish writer who wrote Don Quixote

a)

Marco Polo

b)

Martin Luther

c)

Miguel de Cervantes

d)

William Shakespear

26.

Art and literature of the Renaissance was influenced by ancient

a)

Anglo-Saxon

b)

Greek and Latin

c)

Anglo-Norman

d)

Old English

27.

Advantages of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press include all of the following EXCEPT:

a)

Cheaper book prices

b)

More books written in vernacular - language of the people

c)

Increase in church power

d)

Rapid spread of knowledge and ideas

28.

The Renaissance eventually spread from Italy to the rest of Europe between the 15th and 16th centuries.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

The English humanist and writer who wrote Utopia - a book that was about an ideal society where everyone was equal and free

a)

Baldassare Castiglione

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Pieter Brueghel

d)

Thomas More

30.

Which of these statements describes a change brought about by the Renaissance?

a)

Society was dominated by the church.

b)

Society began to value individualism.

c)

Society was focused on warfare.

d)

Society was dominated by lords.

31.

Humanism focused on achievements in all of the following except what?

a)

Art

b)

Education

c)

Math

d)

Literature

32.

The Renaissance eventually spread from Italy to the rest of Europe between the 15th and 16th centuries.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

Which of these statements describes a change brought about by the Renaissance?

a)

Society was dominated by the church.

b)

Society began to value individualism.

c)

Society was focused on warfare.

d)

Society was dominated by lords.

34.

Humanism focused on achievements in all of the following except what?

a)

Art

b)

Education

c)

Math

d)

Literature

35.

According to Shelley, poetry reveals this natural impulse of humans.

a)

Positivity

b)

Curiosity

c)

Imitation

d)

Romance

36.

He is part of the English literary circle called “Lake Poets” alongside Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.

a)

William Wordsworth

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

William Woodsworth

d)

William Shakespeare

37.

According to Wordsworth, ______ is a “spontaneous overflow of emotion.”

a)

Song

b)

Poetry

c)

Prose

d)

Short Story

38.

The two powers that must come together to create a great piece of literature.

a)

Power of Man and Power of Moment

b)

Power of Disinterestedness and Power of Free of Mind

c)

Power of Right and Power of Force

d)

Power of Material and Power of Endurance

39.
Which is NOT characteristic of the Romantic period?
a)
a. a return to nature
b)
b. appreciation of the individual
c)
c. love of philosophy
d)
d. turning against industrialization
40.
How is the Romantic period a lot like the time period we are living in?
a)
a. We are supporting a French Revolution.
b)
b. We celebrate the voices of individuals.
c)
c. They had electricity.
d)
d. Gothic literature is new.
41.
Romantics favored ______________ instead of reason and science.
a)
a. sentiment and idealistic passion
b)
b. epics
c)
c. Geoffrey Chaucer
d)
d. tales of chivalry
42.
Who wrote the famous Romantic period novels of manners, "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice."
a)
a. Sir Walter Scott
b)
b. William Hazlitt
c)
c. Dorothy Wordsworth
d)
d. Jane Austen
43.

Romanticism is love for ...

a)

Nature

b)

Lover

c)

Monarchy

44.

The following are the principles of Romanticism, except:

a)

Interest in the Common Man

b)

Idealization of Women

c)

Celebration of Nature

d)

Personification and Pathetic Fallacy

e)

All of the above

45.

He was one of the first poets to embrace the concept of writing that could be read, enjoyed, and understood by anyone.

a)

John Keats

b)

William Wordsworth

c)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

d)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

He was one of the most popular English Romantic poets, and is regarded as a great lyrical poet in English language. 

a)

John Keats

b)

William Wordsworth

c)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

d)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.

Who among the following was not a 'younger' Romantic writer?

a)

William Blake

b)

George Byron

c)

P B Shelley

d)

John Keats

48.

As a setting of their poems, early Romantic poets liked...

a)

graveyards

b)

nature

c)

night skies

d)

cities

49.

The Romantics' worldview was opposed to the ideals of ...

a)

the Industrial Revolution

b)

the Enlightenment

c)

the French Revolution

d)

the Americans

50.

The feeling of fear and wonder at the sight of nature is called ...

a)

vast

b)

awe

c)

sublime

d)

grandiosity

51.

Who of the following poets was a "Lord"?

a)

Byron

b)

Shelley

c)

Keats

d)

Coleridge

52.

What is an "ode"?

a)

a poem of 14 lines that uses a formal rhyme scheme

b)

a poem that tells a story and uses a formal rhyme scheme

c)

a lyric poem that pays respect to a person or thing

d)

a poem arranged in quatrains with a rhyme scheme

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