Fill in the blank. Although there is dispute about the actual “invention” of the printing press with movable metal type, _________ is usually the man credited with the invention.

Related Mcqs:

1. How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?

   A. Print halted the corruption of texts by copyists, giving everyone identical texts.
   B. Scientific research became a more collaborative effort.
   C. Learning to read was made easier as print was standardized and made clearer.
   D. All of the above

2. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

3. Fill in the blank. Although Sir Philip Sidney is writing 200 years before the …. revolution, he presents a very inward and self-absorbed narrator in “Astrophil and Stella.” ?

   A. Medieval
   B. Victorian
   C. Romantic
   D. None of the above

4. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

5. How did the printing press alter medieval culture ?

   A. it improved communication between societies
   B. it increased the amount of printed material available to the masses
   C. it created a more unrestricted circulation of texts
   D. All of the Above

6. Fill in the blank. ____________ is remembered as the “Morning Star of the Reformation.”

   A. John Donne
   B. John Dryden
   C. John Wycliffe
   D. Johan Gutenberg

7. Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of poverty was advanced by______________ in the fourteenth century?

   A. Petrarch
   B. Dante
   C. Langland
   D. Machiavelli

8. Fill in the blank. King_____________ was notorious for his six marriages and for ruthlessly persecuting his political enemies, violently eliminating all opposition ?

   A. Charles I
   B. Charles II
   C. Henry V
   D. Henry VIII

9. Fill in the blank. In the second edition of_________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes?

   A. “Acts and Monuments”
   B. “Utopia”
   C. “Euphues”
   D. “Paradise Regained”

10. Fill in the blank. Christopher Marlowe’s influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability _______________?

    A. Very great
    B. Insignificant
    C. Somewhat significant
    D. Impossible