Fill in the blanks. From being narrowly focused on the achievements of north Italians in the______________ and early ____________centuries, the Renaissance is now being seen in a far wider context.

Related Mcqs:

1. Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks. Throughout the Middle Ages, English drama, like that of other European countries, was mainly ______________ and ______________?

   A. Psychological, Sexual
   B. Religious, Didactic
   C. Emotional, Psychological
   D. none of these

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 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

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 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

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

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

7. 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

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

   A. Sir Thomas More
   B. Sir Walter Raleigh
   C. John Foxe
   D. John Lyly

9. What Renaissance text uses martyrology as a device to historicize the conflict between the true Church and the false Church in England ?

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

10. Which of the following figures was an important political theorist of the Renaissance ?

    A. Niccolo Machiavelli
    B. Francesco Petrarcha
    C. Aristotle
    D. Plato