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1. What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century?
2. Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I?
3. Which of the following statements accurately reflects the status of England, its people, and its language in the early sixteenth century?
4. To what subgenre did the Senecan influence give rise, as evidenced in the first English tragedy Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex?
5. From which of the following Italian texts might Tudor courtiers have learned the art of intrigue and the keys to gaining and keeping power?
6. Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of ….. formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court.
7. What is blank verse?
8. Short plays called …..staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes-were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters.
9. Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s?
10. Who began to ignite the embers of dissent against the Catholic church in November 1517 in a movement that came to be known as the Reformation?
11. To what does the phrase 'the stigma of print' refer?
12. Which was not an objection raised against the public theaters in the Elizabethan period?
13. Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin?
14. Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance?
15. Which of the following is true about public theaters in Elizabethan England?
16. Which of the following refers to the small area of Ireland, extending north from Dublin, over which the English government could claim effective control?
17. What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homer's lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century?
18. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was not a courtier?
19. Between 1520 and 1550, the population of London:
20. Who owned the rights to a theatrical script?
21. Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production?
22. Which of the following might be addressed/represented by pastoral poetry?
23. In the Defense of Poesy, what did Sidney attribute to poetry?
24. Which designates the theory that the reigning monarch possesses absolute authority as God's deputy?
25. Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display?

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