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English Literature Made Simple - No. 2

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Introduction:
"Anyone who survived a high school or college English Lit. class should have no problem with this quiz about 'non-Shakespearian' Elizabethan Age and 17th Century literature. Enjoy."


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


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
    James II
    A supernatural ruler
    Elizabeth I


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?
    Francis Bacon
    Barth Toast
    Roger Hamm
    Eli Pepper


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


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


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?
    Samuel Pepys
    Paul Daniel Samuels
    Daniel Beckett
    Edward Jonson


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


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