English MCQs — Test 207
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Question 1
What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ?
Question 2
What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes’s defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?
Question 3
In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry ?
Question 4
Who introduced the art of printing into England ?
Question 5
Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as God’s deputy ?
Question 6
Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
Question 7
Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England ?
Question 8
Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was not a courtier ?
Question 9
Between 1520 and 1550, the population of London_______________?
Question 10
Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production ?