Fill in the blank. Th …. was a movement that had profound implications not only for the modern world in general but also for literary history.

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?

   A. “The Sun Also Rises”
   B. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
   C. “The Cantos”
   D. “To the Lighthouse”

3. Which of the following best describes the reasons why World War I had a profound impact on modern poetry ?

   A. The devastation wrought by World War I was so enormous that it put Europe’s cultural and political norms and values into question.
   B. The mechanized killing, which took place on a massive scale during World War I, made it necessary to reflect about the effects of technological progress.
   C. World War I was the first global conflict where the distinction between combatants and civilians was erased, and this had a devastating effect on the European psyche.
   D. Both A and B

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

   A. Clowns
   B. Women
   C. Politicians
   D. Pantomimes

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 term “Renaissance” literally translates as “_____________” ?

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

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

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