A. Government policies were incorrectly based on the idea that the rich would help the poor survive.
B. The high rates of the poll tax were considered unfair.
C. Peasants were jointly united against the pattern of upper-class harassments
D. All of these answers
Related Mcqs:
- Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?
A. The Legend of Good Women
B. The House of Fame
C. The Book of Duchess
D. Troilus and Criseyde - The turbulent years of the 14th century witnessed a blending of language and culture that led to the rise of Middle English. Which of the following events led to the nickname “the era of catastrophes” ?
A. The Hundred Years War
B. The Great Schism
C. The Black Plague
D. All of these answers - Everyone in Elizabethan England was born into a social class. Peasants were the unluckiest of the lot: they were denied basic comforts, security, and even the chance to dress well. Yep, the Statutes of Apparel outlined the clothes one could legally wear based on rank. Which of the following could the poor wear ?
A. Purple silk dresses
B. Woolen underwear
C. Sable-lined cloaks
D. Velvet coats - Who was Edmund Spenser’s patron ?
A. The Earl of Leicester
B. Elizabeth
C. Lord Burleigh
D. Francis Bacon - Sir John Denham commemorated this poet, referring to him as “Old Chaucer” who, “like the morning star”, descends “to the shades,” so that “Darkness again the Age invades.”
A. William Shakespeare
B. John Donne
C. Abraham Cowley
D. John Dryden - Which period of John Keats as called “the most placid time in Keats’s life” by Cowden Clarke, a close friend of Keats ?
A. His visit to Lake District
B. Keats’ lodging in the attic above the
surgery at 7 Church Street
C. Keats stay in Italy
D. Keats’ travel to Alps - Who was a friend of John Milton ?
A. John Donne
B. John Dryden
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Alexander Pope - In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play ?
A. King John
B. Richard II
C. Henry VIII
D. Henry V - The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
A. Elizabeth Browning
B. Eliza Snow
C. George Elliot
D. Anne Bradstreet - John Dryden’s poem “Annus Mirabilis” emphasizes the solution to which of the following important Restoration problems or events ?
A. England’s power to overcome the recent plague and the great fire of London
B. The monarch’s ability to squelch continuing Puritan resistance
C. The church’s potential to unify the populace after the English revolution
D. Parliament’s ability to restrain the power of the King
