What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?

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1. What are the beginning and ending dates of the Elizabethan era ?

   A. 1558-1603
   B. 1500-1520
   C. 1560-1570
   D. 1575-1600

2. Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25) ?

   A. the founding of the Jamestown settlement
   B. the founding of the Plymouth colony
   C. Henry Hudson’s fruitless search for the Northwest Passage
   D. all of the above

3. Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?

   A. King Henry VIII
   B. Queen Elizabeth I
   C. Queen Victoria
   D. King John

4. Which ruler’s reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era ?

   A. King Henry VIII
   B. Queen Elizabeth I
   C. Queen Victoria
   D. King John

5. In ’Paradise Lost’, which angel is ordered by God to drive Adam and Eve out of Paradise? Before he does so, he shows Adam a number of visions about the future of the human race, beginning with Cain murdering Abel and ending with the redemption of mankind through Christ. Who is this angel that has a large role in the finishing chapters of ’Paradise Lost’ ?

   A. Michael
   B. Abdiel
   C. Rafael
   D. Gabriel

6. The word “Jacobean” is derived from the ___________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James?

   A. Samaritan Hebrew language
   B. Biblical Hebrew
   C. Mishnaic Hebrew
   D. Hebrew language

7. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?

   A. courtly ideals of the good life
   B. carpe diem
   C. loyalty to the king
   D. pious devotion to religious virtues

8. James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler ?

   A. Pericles
   B. Genghis Khan
   C. Richard Lionheart
   D. Augustus Caesar

9. Which of the following was characteristic of the court of James I ?

   A. gluttonous feasting
   B. hard drinking
   C. hunting
   D. all of the above

10. What did Henry James describe as \loose baggy monsters\ ?

    A. novels
    B. plays
    C. the English
    D. publishers