Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was not a courtier ?

   A. George Puttenham
   B. Philip Sidney
   C. Walter Ralegh
   D. Thomas Wyatt

2. “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?

   A. Samson Occcum
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. Mayflower Compact

3. I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking ?

   A. Brown
   B. Brom Bones
   C. Rip
   D. Dupin

4. Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?

   A. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
   B. William Shakespeare’s King Lear
   C. Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III
   D. Thomas More’s Utopia

5. Who was in charge of organizing court festivities and entertainment of the English court ?

   A. Court Jester
   B. Master of Revels
   C. Master of Rebels
   D. Master of Ceremonies

6. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Sir Thomas Malory
   B. Geoffrey Chaucer
   C. Caedmon
   D. John Gower

7. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry ?

   A. Bede
   B. Sir Thomas Malory
   C. Geoffrey Chaucer
   D. Caedmon

8. the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem ?

   A. Iliad
   B. Odyssey
   C. Beowulf
   D. Canterbury Tales

9. Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne ?

   A. Izaak Walton
   B. Katherine Philips
   C. John Skelton
   D. Isabella Whitney

10. Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?

    A. Othello
    B. Volpone
    C. King Lear
    D. Antony and Cleopatra