From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following shifts began in the reign of Henry VII and continued under his Tudor successors ?

   A. the growing authority of the Pope over domestic English affairs
   B. the expansion of England’s colonial possessions
   C. the rise in the power and confidence of the aristocracy
   D. the countering of feudal power structures by a stronger central authority

2. The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?

   A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
   B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
   C. Avoid all forms of prose
   D. Make art profitable above all else

3. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?

   A. Sexuality
   B. Criticism of the queen
   C. Murder
   D. Witchcraft

4. Who was the first Tudor King ?

   A. Henry VIII
   B. Henry VII
   C. George III
   D. James I

5. Elizabeth’s reign was longer than that of any other Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she reigned ?

   A. 35
   B. 40
   C. 45
   D. 50

6. According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?

   A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
   B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
   C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
   D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.

7. Which of the following texts addresses class as a social and economic reality ?

   A. William Godwin’s Inquiry Concerning Political Justice
   B. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s England in 1819
   C. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
   D. all of the above

8. Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?

   A. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men
   B. Paine’s Rights of Man
   C. Godwin’s Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
   D. Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

9. As a mode of literary criticism or theory, gender theory attempts to bring which of the following to literary texts ?

   A. An understanding of the various conceptions and understandings of gender that have carried throughout various cultures
   B. An understanding of gender as a human construct
   C. An understanding of how standard histories of western societies are presented in terms of heterosexual identity
   D. All of these.

10. Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

    A. Plato’s The Republic
    B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
    C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
    D. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”