Who was the first English Christian king ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Who was the first English Christian king ?

   A. Alfred
   B. Richard III
   C. Richard II
   D. Ethelbert

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

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

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

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

5. Which English king had several of his wives killed in his obsessive quest for a male heir ?

   A. Edward VI
   B. Richard III
   C. George III
   D. Henry VIII

6. 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

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

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

8. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King advocates_______________?

   A. Breaking the law.
   B. Using violence when necessary.
   C. Waiting for times to get better.
   D. Disobeying unjust laws.

9. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with_______________?

   A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
   B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
   C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
   D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.

10. Christian writers like the Beowulf poet looked back on their pagan ancestors with____________?

    A. nostalgia and ill-concealed envy.
    B. bewilderment and visceral loathing.
    C. admiration and elegiac sympathy.
    D. bigotry and shallow triumphalism.