A. The Great Order of Life
B. The Great Chain of Being
C. The Great System of Shakespeare
D. The Great Sonnet Symbolism Maker
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - According to John Milton’s view of the structure of the universe, the “Created Universe” is surrounded by what ?
A. Heaven
B. Hell
C. Chaos
D. Sunshine - Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?
A. Skipping church on Sunday
B. A woman screaming at her husband in public
C. Stealing a horse
D. Public drunkenness - Elizabethans had many occupational choices. One could become an apothecary, clerk, physician, or even court jester. Though there seemed to be a myriad of careers to choose from, most people still ended up being very poor. In order to survive, what illegal activity did a large number of citizens pursue ?
A. Begging
B. Money lending
C. Fortune-telling
D. Wine bottling - Staying alive was a difficult task for Elizabethans. Disease, infection, poverty, childbirth, and occupational accidents could all result in one’s untimely demise. Most people never reached the age of fifty. When an Elizabethan died, intricate rituals were followed. What was NOT a funeral custom ?
A. Long processionals
B. Mourning clothes
C. Strict simplicity
D. Tolling of church bells - The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is______________?
A. Transcendentalism
B. Communism
C. Totalitarianism
D. Feudalism - Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
A. geology
B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
D. all of the above - Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
A. geology
B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
D. all of the above - Geoffrey Chaucer is also known as_______________?
A. The reformer of English language
B. The poet of English language
C. The father of English literature
D. The father of English language - What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?
A. Joyce’s “The Dead”
B. Hemingway’s “My Old Man”
C. Woolf’s “A Haunted House”
D. Borges’ “The Library of Babel”
