Fill in the blank. Prior to the rise of the famed tragedians of the late 1580s,_____________ were the great headliners of the Elizabethan stage?

Related Mcqs:

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

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

2. He was famed for great skill in horsemanship; he was foremost at all races and cockfights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic, but had more mischief and good humor than ill will in his composition. Who is this ?

   A. Cotton Mather
   B. Diedrich Knickerbocker
   C. Brom Bones
   D. Geoffrey Crayon

3. Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his _____________ to a church door in Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy upon heresy?

   A. Paradise Lost
   B. 95 Theses
   C. The Bible
   D. Piers Plowman

4. Fill in the blank. The term “Renaissance” literally translates as “_____________” ?

   A. Reincarnation
   B. Rebirth
   C. Reproduction
   D. Recapitulation

5. Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the______________ age in England was over religion?

   A. Hanover
   B. Protestant
   C. Tudor
   D. None of these

6. 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

7. Fill in the blank. John Wycliffe challenged a number of ______________doctrines with arguments which centuries later would echo during the Protestant Reformation ?

   A. Roman Catholic
   B. Anglican
   C. Buddhist
   D. Protestant

8. 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

9. Fill in the blank. The intellectual and social movement which historians call “___________” is what lies at the base of the period we call the Renaissance ?

   A. Socialism
   B. Capitalism
   C. Humanitarianism
   D. Humanism

10. Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?

    A. Catholicism
    B. Medieval Europe
    C. Classical antiquity
    D. Protestantism