Who introduced the art of printing into England ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?

   A. Sexuality
   B. Criticism of the queen
   C. Murder
   D. Witchcraft

2. The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?

   A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
   B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
   C. Avoid all forms of prose
   D. Make art profitable above all else

3. According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?

   A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
   B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
   C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
   D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.

4. Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction ?

   A. Radio announcers were permitted to speak in regional dialects and multicultural accents.
   B. The Arts Council designated many of its resources to supporting regional arts councils.
   C. Regional radio and television stations appeared throughout the country.
   D. all of the above

5. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?

   A. the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
   B. the Battle of Waterloo
   C. the Peterloo Massacre
   D. the storming of the Bastille

6. How did the invention of the printing press affect European culture ?

   A. Print halted the corruption of texts by copyists, giving everyone identical texts.
   B. Scientific research became a more collaborative effort.
   C. Learning to read was made easier as print was standardized and made clearer.
   D. All of the above

7. Fill in the blank. Although there is dispute about the actual “invention” of the printing press with movable metal type, _________ is usually the man credited with the invention.

   A. Niccolo Machiavelli
   B. Johan Gutenberg
   C. Peter Schoeffer
   D. Johannes Fust

8. How did the printing press alter medieval culture ?

   A. it improved communication between societies
   B. it increased the amount of printed material available to the masses
   C. it created a more unrestricted circulation of texts
   D. All of the Above

9. From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power ?

   A. Castiglione’s \The Courtier\
   B. Dante’s \Divine Comedy\
   C. Boccaccio’s \Decameron\
   D. Machiavelli’s \The Prince\

10. Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art ?

    A. realism
    B. perspective
    C. individualism
    D. abstractioin