Shakespeare & The English Renaissance

Question 1

Catherine's daughter persecuted Protestants when she took the throne. She was known as:

Accepted Answer

Bloody Mary

Question 2

Which is the correct range of years for the Renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

1485-1660

Question 3

Which Queen restored the Church of England?

Accepted Answer

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 4

What famous invention allowed knowledge to more easily spread across Europe?

Accepted Answer

The printing press

Question 5

What do you think is the most interesting focus in Shakespeare's sonnets?

Accepted Answer

Life as a temporary state, True nature of beauty, Exploration of love, Enduring nature of poetry

Question 6

What was Shakespeare's son's name?

Accepted Answer

Hamnet

Question 7

What is the name of the first acting company that Shakespeare worked with?

Accepted Answer

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

Question 8

According to Shakespeare, why is poetry important?

Accepted Answer

Poetry endures

Question 9

The Shakespearean's sonnet rhyme scheme is

Accepted Answer

ababcdcdefefgg

Question 10

In 1517 a German monk named ____________ wrote 95 theses against the Catholic Church.

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther

Question 11

The intellectual and philosophical school thought that defined the Renaissance is known as?

Accepted Answer

Humanism, Populism

Question 12

How did people feel about Queen Elizabeth?

Accepted Answer

She was a great politician

Question 13

What is false about Shakespeare's sonnets?

Accepted Answer

They are in chronological order

Question 14

Which one is not an ingredient of Shakespeare's comedies?

Accepted Answer

Tudor's chronicles

Question 15

In Shakespeare's tragedies...

Accepted Answer

the hero is responsible for his own fall

Question 16

A Catholic group (including Guy Fawkes) wanted to blow up Parliament in a plan called:

Accepted Answer

The Gunpowder Plot

Question 17

When Elizabeth died, she was succeeded by her cousin ____ who supported the Church of England.

Accepted Answer

James I

Question 18

Henry VIII broke with the pope and Rome, creating the:

Accepted Answer

Church of England

Question 19

Henry VIII's wives only produced one son, who became:

Accepted Answer

Edward VI

Question 20

Sonnets 1-18 are devoted to...

Accepted Answer

The Earl of Southampton

Question 21

The Pilgrim Fathers

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were a group of extreme protestants

Question 22

The word Renaissance means:

Accepted Answer

Rebirth

Question 23

Who did Queen Elizabeth I marry?

Accepted Answer

She never married

Question 24

After Elizabeth had Mary (Queen of Scots) beheaded, she won a great victory over:

Accepted Answer

the Spanish Armada

Question 25

A sonnet's structure is

Accepted Answer

3 quatrains and 1 couplet

Question 26

What year was Shakespeare born in?

Accepted Answer

1564

Question 27

What is love that is given but not returned?

Accepted Answer

unrequited love

Question 28

In the Globe theater, the poor people...

Accepted Answer

Stood up front

Question 29

This king was obsessed with producing a male heir, and consequently went through six wives.

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII

Question 30

Elizabeth I proved to be an able monarch, encouraging exploration by secretly endorsing:

Accepted Answer

Sir Francis Drake & Sir Walter Raleigh

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