Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?

A. The founding of the jamestown settlement
B. The founding of the plymouth colony
C. Henry hudson’s fruitless search for the northwest passage
D. All of the above

Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?

A. The petrarchan sonnet
B. The classical satire
C. The country-house poem
D. The epigram

James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?

A. Pericles
B. Genghis khan
C. Richard lionheart
D. Augustus caesar

Which of the following was not an expressed objective of the \Long Parliament\ when it convened in 1640 ?

A. Abolishing extra-legal taxes and courts
B. Mounting a revolution and executing the king
C. Bringing to trial the king’s hated ministers, strafford and laud
D. Remaining in session until they themselves agreed to disband

Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam ?

A. John lilburne
B. William laud
C. Roger williams
D. Oliver cromwell

The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer ?

A. Martin luther
B. John calvin
C. Henry viii
D. Arminius

Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy ?

A. The fifth monarchists
B. The roarers
C. The diggers
D. The ranters

What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War ?

A. The abolishment of public plays and sports
B. The conversion of the english church to catholicism
C. The adoption of english as the official language
D. The consolidation of power in an absolute monarch

What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ?

A. Westminster abbey
B. Tower bridge
C. The houses of parliament
D. Buckingham palace

What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes’s defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract ?

A. The litany in a time of plague
B. Utopia
C. Leviathan
D. The advancement of learning