A. “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
B. “The Winter’s Tale”
C. “The Tempest”
D. “Faustus”
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Which of the following statements best describes the “Great Chain of Being” ?
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Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?
A. It regarded human beings as social creatures who could create meaningful lives only in association with other social beings.
B. Its major premise was that every existing thing in the universe had its “place” in a divinely planned hierarchical order which was pictured as a chain, vertically extended.
C. It could only be achieved through faith in God’s grace.
D. Both A and B
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Greek theatre took place where ?
A. Catholicism
B. Medieval Europe
C. Classical antiquity
D. Protestantism
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The character of Falstaff is important in which play(s) by William Shakespeare ?
A. Large hillside amphitheaters
B. Large indoor theaters
C. Small indoor theaters
D. All of the above
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Which of the following figures was an important political theorist of the Renaissance ?
A. “Henry IV, Part I”
B. “Henry IV, Part II”
C. “Titus Andronicus”
D. All of the above
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A total of how many sonnets constitute the entirety of “Astrophil and Stella” ?
A. Niccolo Machiavelli
B. Francesco Petrarcha
C. Aristotle
D. Plato
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Which of the following plays by William Shakespeare is a comedy ?
A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 40
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According to John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” what is Satan’s tragic flaw ?
A. “Romeo and Juliet”
B. “Hamlet”
C. “Much Ado about Nothing”
D. “Henry IV, Part I”