Fill in the blank. ____________ is remembered as the “Morning Star of the Reformation.”

A. John donne
B. John dryden
C. John wycliffe
D. Johan gutenberg

Martin Luther’s translation of what text helped to develop a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation ?

A. “paradise lost”
B. “canterbury tales”
C. “the bible”
D. “piers plowman”

Fill in the blank. Although Sir Philip Sidney is writing 200 years before the …. revolution, he presents a very inward and self-absorbed narrator in “Astrophil and Stella.” ?

A. Medieval
B. Victorian
C. Romantic
D. None of the above

The foundation story of what poem is the Genesis account of the Creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, culminating in the drama of their temptation and fall ?

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

King Henry VIII adopted what religion ?

A. Catholicism
B. Protestantism
C. Buddhism
D. Roman catholicism

Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the______________ age in England was over religion?

A. Hanover
B. Protestant
C. Tudor
D. None of these

The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter ?

A. Trochaic trimeter
B. Terza rima
C. Iambic pentameter
D. Anapestic pentameter

Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?

A. Chaucer
B. Langland
C. Homer
D. Shakespeare

Fill in the blank. A ____________ was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility and was staged to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat?

A. Masque
B. Satire
C. Tragedy
D. Comedy

Fill in the blank. Prior to the rise of the famed tragedians of the late 1580s,_____________ were the great headliners of the Elizabethan stage?

A. Clowns
B. Women
C. Politicians
D. Pantomimes