A. Postmodern; end slavery.
B. Colonial; end patriotism for England.
C. Modernism; end individualism.
D. Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England.
Related Mcqs:
- In “Samson Agonistes,” Samson’s father, Manoa, is trying to get Samson freed from imprisonment mainly so he can help Samson to____________?
A. get revenge on his enemies
B. re-instated as a Judge
C. retire
D. convert - Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a number of early American writers, including_______________?
A. Hawthrone
B. Stewart
C. Thoreau
D. A and B - Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________?
A. Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.
B. Scientific exploration.
C. Love and romance.
D. The philosophy of how to run a new country. - 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 - The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the____________?
A. aristocracy
B. New Age
C. Reformation
D. Enlightenment - What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness,a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
A. wit
B. sprezzatura
C. naturalism
D. gusto - What word did writers in this period use to express quickness of mind, inventiveness, a knack for conceiving images and metaphors and for perceiving resemblances between things apparently unlike ?
A. wit
B. sprezzatura
C. naturalism
D. gusto - Elizabethans were notoriously superstitious. They feared witches, believed in magical animals, and sought good luck charms. What “science” did they utilize in trying to predict and control the future ?
A. Alchemy
B. Metallurgy
C. Geocentricity
D. Astrology - Who is NOT considered to be a representative of the Southern Renaissance ?
A. William Faulkner
B. Tennessee Williams
C. Robert Penn Warren
D. T.S.Eliot - Which century is known as Dawn of Renaissance ?
A. 14 th
B. 15 th
C. 16 th
D. 14 th and 16 th
