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English Literature - Renaissance to Restoration

1. Choose the right alternative to complete the sentence:

Queen Elizabeth I, The Virgin Queen, was crowned in _______, at the age of 25. She was the daughter of _________I and Ann Boleyn, his second wife, and was considered a bastard.

2. Mary Stuart was queen of the _____

3. The Metaphysical Poets wrote verses which were a mixture of ________ and ____________. John Donne is the greatest representative.

Politics and Emotions

Reasons and Emotions

4. The comedy has an inevitable _________, with little __________even for the worst villains; ____________ are frequently used.

sad ending / happiness / murders

confusing ending / punishment / solilloquies

happy ending / problems / big sceneries

happy ending / punishment / mistaken identities

5. The first great dramatist of the Renaissance was

6. Who is considered to be the father of English criticism"

7. A civil war began between the Cavaliers – the king’s men – and the Roundhead – the Parliament’s men. The ..... won because .......

... Parliament ...its leader Oliver Cromwell was a good military chief

...Cavaliers.... its king Charles I was a dictatorship

...Parliament... its king Charles I was strong

...Cavaliers ... its leader was the king

8. Oliver Cromwell proclaimed himself Lord Protector, established t________________________ and ruled England as a dictator for the next ________years.

the Commonwealth, a kind of Republic / eleven years

Monarchy / eleven years

the Stuart line / 30 years

9. The Puritans desired to purify the Church of England, taking off the ceremonies, the priesthood, the ritual worship, and restauring the severe Old Testament way of living, without dancing, playing, amusements and singing – except religious songs. Theatres had been already closed in 1642.

the Church of England / dancing, playing, amusements

the Monarchy / theatre plays

the Parliament / songs, poems

the Republic / dancing, playing, amusements

10. By this time of Reforms, there were two big disasters in London:

the Swine flu and the yellow fever

the Plague and the Great fire in London

the Great flood in London and the Plague

the Plague and the rebellion of the angels

11. John Milton (1608-1674) is considered to be the most important poet of this time. His work can be divided into three main groups

12. The name of the three great poems written by John Milton, in fact dictated to his daughters because he was completely blind, were

13. Among the Cavalier Poets are

14. John Bunyam represents the biblical prose for the common people, his great work was

15. Find names of important people from the contextual background of the period between Medieval times and Restoration.

16. William Shakespeare is known as

17. In 1623, two of Shakespeare former theatrical colleagues published the a collected edition of his dramatic works.

18. Write the names of the correct plays by William Shakespeare:

a. Shylock, a jew, Portia, Antonio, Bassanio are characters from

b. Ophelia, Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet, Horatio are characters from

c. Benedickt, Beatrice, Claudio, Hero, Dom Pedro, Leonato are characters from

d. Leontes, Hermione, Perdita, Polixenes, Florizel, are characters from

e. Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Caliban, Ferdinand are characters from

f. Rosalind, Orlando, Duke Senior, Celia, Duke Frederick are characters from

g. Macbeth, Banquo, king Duncan, MacDuff, lady Macbeth are characters from

h. Viola, Orsino, Olivia, Sebastian, Malvolio are characters from

i. Mistress Ford, Mistress Page, Falstaff, Ford, Page are characters from

j. Oberon, Puck, Titania, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena, Theseus, Hyppolita, Nick Bottom are characters from

k. Katherine, Petruchio, Bianca, Baptista are characters from

l. Iago, Desdemona, Othello and Emilia are characters from

m. Cordelia, Goneril, Reagan, Lear, Edgar, Edmund are characters from