English MCQs — Test 53

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Question 1

William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” is an example of what dramatic genre ?

Question 2

Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author’s contemporaries?

Question 3

There was greater emphasis placed on human potentiality for growth and excellence through Europe by which year ?

Question 4

Fill in the blank. _______ was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation?

Question 5

Fill in the blank. In 1585, _______________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)?

Question 6

What doctrine significantly influenced Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia” ?

Question 7

Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically ?

Question 8

Many of William Shakespeare’s plays were performed at what theater in Elizabethan England ?

Question 9

Which of the following plays were written by Christopher Marlowe ?

Question 10

What author defines the function of poetry with reference to the Horatian dictum of “to teach and delight” ?