The English Renaissance

Question 1

how many of William Shakespeare's plays were tragedies?

Accepted Answer

9 of 37

Question 2

Who was Henry VII?

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First Tutor Monarch, rebuilt the nations treasury, Both answer 1 and 2

Question 3

Key Characteristics (universities) of the English Renaissance

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New curriculum called humanities

Question 4

Where did the Renaissance start?

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Italy 1300

Question 5

Which was NOT a key characteristic of the English Renaissance?

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Science

Question 6

Who was John Cabot?

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Laid the basis for future European claims in America, Found Canada after Columbus

Question 7

Who was Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

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Painter, sculptor, artist, scientist, engineer and architect

Question 8

How long did the Tutors rule England?

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1485-1603

Question 9

Who was Edmund Spencer (1552-1599)

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wrote the "Faerie Queene", he wrote 5 sonnets

Question 10

Who was James I

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Both answer 1 and 2

Question 11

how many of William Shakespeare's plays were history?

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10 of 37

Question 12

how did William Shakespeare begin his career

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actor

Question 13

Who was Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

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Edited the New Testament, was questioned for editing the bible

Question 14

What is More's Utopia

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a book, a society free of medieval supersition and prejudice

Question 15

The Renaissance was often considered...

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a flowering of literary artistic an intellectual development

Question 16

Who was Dante Alighieri? (Page 192)

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Poet, Wrote "The Divine Comedy

Question 17

who is Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

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introduced sonnets to England, poet and translated other poems

Question 18

Who was Elizabeth I

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The English Renaissance at its height was called Elizabethan, she died un-married, Last of the Tutors

Question 19

Who was Martin Luther (1483-1546)

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Founded the Lutheran Religion, Wrote the Ninety-Five Theses

Question 20

Who was Thomas More?

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wrote in Latin, created More's Utopia (1516)

Question 21

What did the English Renaissance achieve?

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growth in architecture schools music and painters/sculptors

Question 22

Who was Henry VIII

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left the catholic church because he was not aloud to remarry, He was catholic

Question 23

Who was Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) (page 192)

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Wrote lyrical poetry, Used a new form called the sonnet

Question 24

Who was Mary I

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Restored Rome in England and violently kicked outProtestants

Question 25

who was the leading prose writer of the English Renaissance?

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Francis Bacon

Question 26

Who was Henry Howard (1517-1547)

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first to use blank verse in sonnet form, poet

Question 27

What were the key characteristics (religious) of the Renaissance?

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Focus on the after life, new interest in humans on earth

Question 28

What were the key characteristics (scholars) of the Renaissance?

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writing was in local language instead of in Latin, Everything was standardized

Question 29

How long did the English Renaissance last?

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1485-1625

Question 30

who was William Shakespeare?

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all of the above

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