Which writer spent more than twelve years imprisoned in the Tower of London ?

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1. The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection – a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball – a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives – and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an “insurrection” ?

   A. An act or instance of beginning
   B. An of revolting against civil authority
   C. The state of one risen from the dead
   D. The condition of being stopped

2. Which of the following was the Tower of London used for in the Elizabethan age ?

   A. As an astronomical observation deck
   B. As a storage place for grain
   C. As a prison
   D. As a school for the royal children

3. chaucer was imprisoned during_______________?

   A. hundred years’ war
   B. Black death
   C. Peasant revolt
   D. none of the above

4. in which year chaucer was imprisoned by the French ?

   A. 1360
   B. 1357
   C. 1378
   D. none of the above

5. “The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses” is an example of what dramatic genre ?

   A. Masque
   B. Satire
   C. Burlesque
   D. Tragedy

6. The Primary Narrator for Books Eleven and Twelve of “Paradise Lost,” who relates future events is which of the following ?

   A. The Son
   B. Raphael
   C. Michael
   D. Adam

7. After ____________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London?

   A. two
   B. three
   C. four
   D. five

8. John Lyly’s work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer ?

   A. William Blake
   B. William Wordsworth
   C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   D. William Shakespeare

9. Edmund Spenser was directly influenced by which writer’s epic poetry ?

   A. Milton
   B. Wordsworth
   C. Aristo
   D. Both A and B

10. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London ?

    A. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
    B. Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
    C. Behn’s Oroonoko
    D. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock