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1. Which of the following female authors of the Jacobean era wrote a work that became the 'first' of its kind to be published by an English woman?
2. Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period?
3. The idea that God predestines human beings to be saved or damned is associated with which Protestant reformer?
4. Which of the following did Milton not advocate in print in the 1640s and 1650s?
5. Which writer was not active under both Elizabeth I and James I?
6. What was one of the first acts of Parliament after the outbreak of hostilities in the First Civil War?
7. What was the intended target of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605?
8. Which was not among the 'new' genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert?
9. What was the general subject of the Welsh poet Katherine Philips's work?
10. What was the licensing system?
11. James I liked to imagine himself as a modern version of which ruler?
12. What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes's defense of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract?
13. What major new prose genre emerged in the Jacobean era?
14. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick?
15. Who authored the scholarly biography, Life of Donne?
16. What is the title to Milton's blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition?
17. What historical figure promoted the rapid growth of a high Anglican faction within the church whose ceremony, ritual, and doctrine more closely resembled Roman Catholicism?
18. Which group of radicals got their name from their penchant for rambling prophecy?
19. Which religious radical advocated the civic toleration of all religions, including Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam?
20. Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humours?
21. Which of the following was not a cause associated with militant Protestant reformers (Puritans, Presbyterians, and separatists)?
22. Which of the following colonial ventures took place in the reign of James I (1603-25)?
23. Restored to the throne in 1660, Charles II ruled:
24. Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family?
25. Which poem testifies to the profound doubts and uncertainties attending Donne's conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism?

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