Sir Thomas More wrote what famous text ?

A. “toxophilus”
B. “utopia”
C. “the inferno”
D. “paradise lost”

Who was in charge of organizing court festivities and entertainment of the English court ?

A. Court jester
B. Master of revels
C. Master of rebels
D. Master of ceremonies

What text greatly popularized the sonnet form in England during the Elizabethan period ?

A. “astrophil and stella”
B. “utopia”
C. “paradise lost”
D. “canterbury tales”

Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe’s influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability _______________?

A. Very great
B. Insignificant
C. Somewhat significant
D. Impossible

Which of the following statements is TRUE concerning the Globe theater in Elizabethan England ?

A. It burned down and was reconstructed hundreds of years later.
B. It was situated on the thames river.
C. It was lit from natural sunlight as well as by candle light.
D. All of the above

What Renaissance text uses martyrology as a device to historicize the conflict between the true Church and the false Church in England ?

A. “euphues”
B. “paradise lost”
C. “paradise regained”
D. “acts and monuments”

Edmund Spenser wrote what famous text ?

A. “paradise lost”
B. “the faerie queen”
C. “the prelude”
D. “canterbury tales”

Fill in the blank. John Foxe was deeply disgusted by the _______________, and could not believe that any honest Christian could accept its doctrinal basis ?

A. Mass
B. Transubstantiation
C. Resurrection
D. Both a and c

Fill in the blank. In the second edition of_________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes?

A. “acts and monuments”
B. “utopia”
C. “euphues”
D. “paradise regained”

The conceit of the Petrarchan sonnet in English during the Elizabethan period often involves what topic ?

A. Drugs
B. Sex
C. Animals
D. Propaganda