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

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne’s conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism ?

   A. \Air and Angels\
   B. \Satire 3\
   C. \The Apparition\
   D. \The Indifferent\

3. Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?

   A. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
   B. Paine’s Rights of Man
   C. Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
   D. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

4. Paul O’Brien contends that _____________make(s) Shelley a “radical.”?

   A. Shelley’s political beliefs
   B. Shelley’s sexuality
   C. Shelley’s love of Shakespeare
   D. Shelley’s relationship with Byron

5. Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?

   A. interludes
   B. spectacles
   C. meditations
   D. mysteries

6. Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?

   A. Archbishop Cranmer
   B. Catherine of Aragon
   C. Elizabeth I
   D. Mary Tudor

7. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Robert Herrick
   D. John Dryden

8. Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the “supreme governor” of all things spiritual. Who was it ?

   A. The Pope in Rome
   B. Each man was his own supreme governor
   C. The Archbishop of Canterbury
   D. Queen Elizabeth I

9. Dante’s mention of the “sound of the angelic trumpet” refers to which religious event ?

   A. The Annunciation
   B. Baptism
   C. Holy Communion
   D. The Last Judgment

10. During the Colonial Time Period, the writing was influenced most by what religious persuasion ?

    A. The Puritans
    B. The Catholics
    C. The Pilgrims
    D. The Anglo Saxons