Name: Ahmed Sher

BS English Literature
Government Graduate College Of Science Faisalabad
Renaissance MCQs
Q1. The Renaissance Period started in:

A. 15th century
B. 16th century
C. 17th century

Q2. In English literature the period from 1500 to 1600 is called the period of:

A. The Renaissance Period

B. The Puritan Age
C. The Restoration Period

Q3. Which period is also called the Elizabethan Period or the Age of Shakespeare?

A. The Restoration Period

B. The Age of Johnson
C. The Renaissance Period

Q4. Renaissance means:

A. Revival, rebirth
B. New spirit
C. Both a and b

Q5. The Period followed by the Middle Ages in Europe was:

A. The Restoration Period

B. The Age of Johnson
C. The Renaissance Period

Q6. When the world was reborn in many ways?

A. 1100-1500
B. 1500-1600
C. 1600-1700

Q7. The Renaissance first began in:

A. France
B. Spain
C. Italy

Q8.In which field the Renaissance began in Italy?

 A. Art
B. Architecture
C. Both a and b

Q9. The Renaissance began in Italy in which century?

A. 15th century
B. 16th century
C. 17th century

Q10. The country which became the most powerful nation in Europe in the late sixteenth century is:

A. France
B. Italy
C. England

Q11. In Contrast to Middle Ages, what changes were occurred during Renaissance Period?

A. New worlds were discovered

B. New ways of seeing and thinking developed
C. Both a and b

Q12. When was the fall of Constantinople occurred by the invasion of the Turks?

A. 1452 A.D
B. 1453 A.D
C. 1454 A.D

Q13. The period which prompted Revival of Learning is:

A. The Age of Pope

B. The Restoration Period
C. The Renaissance Period

Q14.The essence of the movement, The Revival of Learning was:

A. “man discovered himself”

B. “man discovered himself and the universe”
C. “discovery of the universe”

Q15. Along with the __________________, new discoveries took place in several other fields.

A. Revival of Learning
B. Flood of Greek literature
C. New art

Q16. Who circumnavigated the earth ?

A. Columbus
B. Vasco da Gama
C. Copernicus
Q17. America was discovered by:

A. Columbus
B. Vasco da Gama
C. Copernicus

Q18. The discovery of solar system made by:

A. Copernicus
B. Galileo
C. Columbus

Q19. During Revival of Learning, what changes took place in Europe?

A. Book were printed

B. Philosophy, science and arts were systematized
C. All of the above

Q20. What was the new spirit, which awoke in Europe with the Revival of Learning?

A. Revealed a new world of poetry and philosophy

B. Truth only was authority
C. Both a and b

Q21. Who himself made the head of Church of England?

A. King Henry VI
B. King Henry VIII
C. King Henry VII

Q22. Where the King Henry VIII cut all contact with the Catholic Church and the Pope?

A. In Rome
B. In Italy
C. In France

Q23. A reaction against the Catholic Church in many parts of Europe, which movement became more
and more important?

A. Revival of Learning
B. Protestantism
C. None

Q24. At that time, who was closest to God?

A. King or Queen
B. Mankind
C. Both a and b

Q25.” Who brought church and state together during (1529-1539)?

A. Charles I
 B. King Henry VIII
C. King Henry VI

Q26. Emphasis on Humanism(man’s concern with himself as an object of contemplation) was the chief
characteristic of which period?

A. The Renaissance Period

B. The Puritan Age
C. The Restoration Period

Q27. The movement of Humanism was started in:

A. Germany
B. France
C. Italy

Q28. Who started the Humanism movement in the 14 th century?

A. Dante
B. Petrarch, Boccaccio
C. Both a and b

Q29. The first Englishman who wrote under the influence of Greek studies was:

A. Dr. Faustus
B. Sir Thomas More
C. Spenser

Q30. “Utopia”, written in Latin is the literary work of:

A. Shakespeare
B. Bin Johnson
C. Sir Thomas More

Q31. The Literary personality, who accepted and advocated the critical rules of the ancient Greeks was:

A. Sir Philip Sidney

B. Sir Thomas More
C. William Shakespeare

Q32. “Defence of Poetry”, is the literary work of:

A. Spenser
B. Sir Philip Sidney
C. William Shakespeare

Q33. Which was the second important aspect of Humanism?

A. Discovery of the external universe

B. Man’s concern with himself as an object of contemplation
C. Both a and b
Q34. A new literary form in the Renaissance Period “the Essay”, was used successfully by:

A. Russell
B. Bacon
C. Shakespeare

Q35. In Drama who probed down into deep recesses of the human passion in the Sixteenth century?

A. Shakespeare
B. Johnathan swift
C. Christopher Marlowe

Q36. The author of “Euphues”, in prose writing during the Renaissance Period was

A. Spenser
B. John Lyly
C. Sidney

Q37. Who wrote his “Arcadia”, in the form of fiction in prose writing in Renaissance Period.

A. Sir Phillip Sidney

B. John Lyly
C. William Shakespeare

Q38. The literary work of Spenser in prose writing in the Renaissance Period was:

A. Arcadia
B. Dr. Faustus
C. Faerie Queene