Marriage was a social obligation, and for many families a topic of obsession. Betrothals were often arranged by parents, especially for the high-class. What criterion was considered the least important in deciding upon a suitable match ?

Related Mcqs:

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

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

2. On the basis of the criterion of the state of the tension of the tongue, vowels can be classified into______________?

   A. Round vowels & unrounded vowels
   B. Front vowels & back vowels
   C. High vowels & low vowels
   D. Tense vowels &lax vowels

3. The first stanza of John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” begins with what topic(s) ?

   A. A brief summary of “Paradise Lost”
   B. A detailed description of Satan
   C. A detailed description of Milton himself
   D. A and B

4. John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is a story largely about what topic ?

   A. A quest for knowledge of the self
   B. A quest for knowledge of other countries
   C. A quest for knowledge of the future
   D. A quest for Forbidden Knowledge

5. The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal ?

   A. On the slave trade
   B. On romantic philosophy
   C. On the creativity of human mind
   D. On supernatural elements in poetry

6. In his Letter to Can Grande, which topic does Dante attempt to explain ?

   A. His use of allegory
   B. His opposition to the separation of Church and State
   C. His belief in the infallibility of the popes
   D. His interest in medieval cosmology

7. Which of the following would probably NOT be the topic of a Romantic poem ?

   A. The French Revolution
   B. Man’s relationship to nature
   C. The experience of common people
   D. A celebration of the aristocratic

8. Which topic(s) is/are explored in The Lais of Marie de France ?

   A. superstition
   B. adultery
   C. jealous fathers
   D. All of the Above

9. What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet ?

   A. Capulet And Montague
   B. Breslow and Felsher
   C. Fuech and Goodside
   D. Dawson and Hurley

10. _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?

    A. Fredrick Douglass
    B. John Winthrop
    C. Benjamin Franklin
    D. William Apess