What concept best distinguishes the difference between the time of the Middles Ages and the Renaissance ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Why do most critics also refer to the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages ?

   A. it was a period of surging Roman institutions
   B. the production of historical records increased
   C. there are few primary sources that reconstruct the history of the time
   D. the lack of technology made it literally dark

2. According to Dr. Mazzotta, what trait distinguishes Dante’s purgatory from his hell ?

   A. Purgatory is less future-oriented.
   B. Purgatory is a place of redemptive intervention.
   C. Purgatory includes references to time.
   D. Purgatory is less rooted in the human, natural world.

3. What distinguishes morality plays from mystery plays ?

   A. Mystery plays involve Christian themes, whereas morality plays do not.
   B. Morality plays involve Christian themes, whereas mystery plays do not.
   C. Morality plays were written individually, whereas mystery plays are in cycles.
   D. Mystery plays were written individually, whereas morality plays are in cycles.

4. For many scholars, what distinguishes terror from horror in the Gothic novel ?

   A. The anticipation of the violation of one’s person versus an act of physical violence
   B. Plotted revenge versus random violence
   C. The male Gothic versus the female Gothic
   D. The persistence of the past in the present versus the betrayal in the present of the paternal protector

5. Between which movements do historians situate literature in the Middle Ages ?

   A. English Reformation and Elizabethan Age
   B. Civil war and the Restoration
   C. Roman departure and the Renaissance
   D. Romanticism and the Enlightenment

6. What Renaissance text uses martyrology as a device to historicize the conflict between the true Church and the false Church in England ?

   A. “Euphues”
   B. “Paradise Lost”
   C. “Paradise Regained”
   D. “Acts and Monuments”

7. What does the term “renaissance” mean ?

   A. Death
   B. Theater
   C. Drama
   D. Rebirth

8. Seven Ages of Man appears in “ As you like it”. Which character’s speech it is ?

   A. Amiens
   B. Orlando
   C. Oliver
   D. Jaques

9. Renaissance first came to the ?

   A. France
   B. Italy
   C. England
   D. Rome

10. The Renaissance was known for originating which of the following philosophical movements ?

    A. Existentialism
    B. Humanism
    C. Stoicism
    D. Postmodernism