Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the….., which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era ?

   A. the novel
   B. the sermon
   C. the familiar essay
   D. the diary

2. The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?

   A. Elizabethan era
   B. English Reformation
   C. England
   D. Tudor period

3. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?

   A. Victorian
   B. Elizabethan
   C. Romantic
   D. None of these

4. The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620-1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ____________in London in 1625 ?

   A. Cholera
   B. Tuberculosis
   C. Bubonic plague
   D. Plague (disease)

5. “The Jacobean Era” refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries ?

   A. Jordan
   B. England
   C. Malaysia
   D. Tunisia

6. What proceeded Jacobean era ?

   A. Elizabethan Era
   B. Caroline era
   C. Victorian era
   D. Jacobean Era

7. The foremost poet of Jacobean era was ?

   A. John Milton
   B. Charles Bacon
   C. John Donne
   D. Herbert Spencer

8. Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the \first\of its kind to be published by an English woman ?

   A. Rachel Speght
   B. Aemilia Lanyer
   C. Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
   D. all of the above

9. Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?

   A. the Petrarchan sonnet
   B. the classical satire
   C. the country-house poem
   D. the epigram

10. What literary genre is Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis” ?

    A. Short story
    B. Tragedy play
    C. Comedy play
    D. Poetry