the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?

A. Iliad
B. Odyssey
C. Beowulf
D. Canterbury tales

Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe ?

A. Henry v
B. Richard iii
C. Edward ii
D. John

Which of the following statements about Julian of Norwich is true ?

A. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.
B. She was a virgin martyr.
C. She is the first known woman writer in the english vernacular.
D. She made pilgrimages to jerusalem, rome, and santiago.

what was chaucer’s profession ?

A. A poet
B. A merchant
C. A civil servant
D. None of the above

What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism ?

A. William collins
B. William laud
C. William shakespeare
D. William tyndale

What is the term we now use for what the Romantics called “mesmerism,” one of the “occult” practices that allowed people to explore altered states of consciousness ?

A. Smoking opium
B. Hypnotism
C. Psychoanalysis
D. Dream interpretation

Romantic poets would have enjoyed, agreed with, and perhaps written about which of the following figures as depicted ?

A. Goethe’s faust in faust, who is sinful because he attempts to exceed the bounds of human knowledge by making a pact with the devil but is nonetheless redeemed in his striving to break free of the bounds of mortality
B. Icarus, who is killed in attempting to fly because only gods have the power to fly and mortals must be taught the limitations of human existence
C. Prometheus, who succeeds in stealing fire from the gods and thereby surpasses the limitations placed on humans by the gods
D. A and c only

Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto initiated which literary tradition ?

A. Hunnish epic
B. Gothic fiction
C. Epistolary novel
D. Meta-novel

Who issued an interdict against Elizabeth ?

A. Pope pius v
B. Pope innocent iii
C. Pope gregory xiii
D. Pope boniface

Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists) ?

A. The pursuit of a more confrontational policy towards catholic powers
B. The elimination of bishops
C. The right of congregations to choose their own leaders
D. The wider use of religious images in churches