English Literature Made Simple - No. 2

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. What Elizabethan author of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" died in a barroom brawl? Thomas Champion Christopher Marlowe John Lyly Ben Johnson

2. What adventure-loving writer/poet was beheaded? Count Don Juan Henry Woodsman Prince Henry Sir Walter Raleigh

3. Who or what was the subject of Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queen"? Camelot Elizabeth I A supernatural ruler James II

4. What was an occupation of John Donne, the author of "Death, Be Not Proud"? Saloon keeper Roman Catholic bishop Coachman Anglican preacher

5. Which author, philosopher and essayist rose to the position of Lord Chancellor under King James I? Roger Hamm Francis Bacon Barth Toast Eli Pepper

6. Which of the following was not one of the Cavalier Poets? William Blake John Suckling Robert Herrick Richard Lovelace

7. Poet John Milton composed "Paradise Lost" while under what physical handicap? Deafness Insanity Epilepsy Blindness

8. In what work by John Bunyan does one find Vanity Fair and Sloughs of Despond? Elizabeth the Queen The Canterbury Tales The Pilgrim's Progress Beowulf

9. The diary of which Secretary of the Admiralty gives first-hand accounts of the plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London? Edward Jonson Daniel Beckett Samuel Pepys Paul Daniel Samuels

10. Who is considered by many as the chief poet and playwright of the Restoration as well as the father of modern English prose? Edwin Rorden Robert Heiden John Dryden Philip Matthews