What religion had the most political and social power in Shakespeare’s time ?

Related Mcqs:

1. According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?

   A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
   B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
   C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
   D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt.

2. According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?

   A. Thomas More.
   B. Francis Bacon.
   C. Earl of Oxford.
   D. John Shakespeare.

3. In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?

   A. Marlowe
   B. Swift
   C. Oxford
   D. Bacon

4. Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is___________________?

   A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
   B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
   C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
   D. None of the above

5. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?

   A. The Taming of the Shrew
   B. As you Like it
   C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
   D. Titus Andronicus

6. Which group was at the bottom of England’s social hierarchy during Shakespeare’s early years ?

   A. Nobility
   B. Peasants
   C. Yeomen
   D. The gentry

7. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?

   A. Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
   B. Butler’s Hudibras
   C. Fielding’s Jonathan Wild
   D. Pope’s Dunciad

8. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil, particularly regarding the issue of religion, just after the Restoration ?

   A. Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
   B. Butler’s Hudibras
   C. Fielding’s Jonathan Wild
   D. Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel

9. Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the “supreme governor” of all things spiritual. Who was it ?

   A. The Pope in Rome
   B. Each man was his own supreme governor
   C. The Archbishop of Canterbury
   D. Queen Elizabeth I

10. What is the name of Shakespeare’s son ?

    A. William
    B. John
    C. Hamlet
    D. Hamnet