Fill in the blank. In 1585, _______________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)?

Related Mcqs:

1. Fill in the blank. John Foxe was deeply disgusted by the _______________, and could not believe that any honest Christian could accept its doctrinal basis ?

   A. Mass
   B. Transubstantiation
   C. Resurrection
   D. both A and C

2. 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

3. “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?

   A. Samson Occcum
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. Mayflower Compact

4. 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

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

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

6. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s style is best described as ___________________?

   A. Anachronistic
   B. Euphuistic
   C. Marxist
   D. Solipsistic

7. Fill in the blank. John Foxe’s ambiguous attitude towards the Elizabethan church was ______________?

   A. Untypical
   B. Not untypical
   C. Exploded
   D. Rejected

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. _______ was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation?

   A. Niccolo Machiavelli
   B. Martin Luther
   C. John Milton
   D. John Wycliffe

10. 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.

    A. Niccolo Machiavelli
    B. Johan Gutenberg
    C. Peter Schoeffer
    D. Johannes Fust