James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?

   A. Sigmund Freud
   B. Sir James Frazer
   C. Immanuel Kant
   D. all but C

2. Which setting could you not imagine a work of Romantic literature employing ?

   A. a field of daffodils
   B. the “Orient”
   C. a graveyard
   D. All of the above would be appropriate settings for Romantic literature.

3. In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism ?

   A. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.
   B. Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.
   C. Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.
   D. All of these answers

4. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?

   A. courtly ideals of the good life
   B. carpe diem
   C. loyalty to the king
   D. pious devotion to religious virtues

5. Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I ?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Ben Jonson
   C. John Donne
   D. John Milton

6. Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?

   A. the founding of the Jamestown settlement
   B. the founding of the Plymouth colony
   C. Henry Hudson’s fruitless search for the Northwest Passage
   D. all of the above

7. Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?

   A. gluttonous feasting
   B. hard drinking
   C. hunting
   D. all of the above

8. What did Henry James describe as “loose baggy monsters” ?

   A. novels
   B. plays
   C. the English
   D. publishers

9. The word “Jacobean” is derived from the ___________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James?

   A. Samaritan Hebrew language
   B. Biblical Hebrew
   C. Mishnaic Hebrew
   D. Hebrew language

10. What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?

    A. 1592-1608
    B. 1603-1625
    C. 1607-1627
    D. 1608-1639