The “father of humanism” was_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. What is the best definition of humanism ?

   A. The movement to write more in vernacular
   B. The intellectual movement interested in classical antiquity
   C. The scientific movement away from classical antiquity
   D. The movement based on literature about courtly love

2. In which way was Dante a precursor of humanism ?

   A. He wrote classical epics with Christian materials.
   B. He promoted the worship of idolatrous statues from the ancient times.
   C. He rejected the influence of Scholasticism.
   D. He was uninterested in the poetics of the sublime.

3. Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism ?

   A. Aristotle
   B. Viktor Shklovsky
   C. Stanley Fish
   D. Toni Morrison

4. What is humanism ?

   A. An idea traditionally associated with the Renaissance
   B. A humanity-centered view of the universe
   C. A theory that values restraint, form, and imitation
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

5. Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism ?

   A. Aristotle
   B. Viktor Shklovsky
   C. Cleanth Brooks
   D. Stanley Fish

6. What is humanism ?

   A. A humanity-centered view of the universe
   B. A school of theory devoted to the revival of Classical (ancient Greek and Roman) literature
   C. A theory that values restraint, form, and imitation
   D. All of the above.

7. Compared to Aquinas, the writers of Florentine humanism considered which of the following only unsystematically ?

   A. Sex
   B. Emotions
   C. Psychology
   D. All of the above

8. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. The author of this passage was_______________?

   A. A slave
   B. A Transcendentalist
   C. The son of itinerant actors
   D. An indentured servant

9. The key word that characterised the Romantic movement was_______________?

   A. Inspiration
   B. Imagination
   C. Fancy
   D. Decorum

10. The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was_______________?

    A. Dante
    B. Shakespeare
    C. Wordsworth
    D. Shelley