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 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"? Anglican preacher Coachman Saloon keeper Roman Catholic bishop

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

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

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? The Canterbury Tales The Pilgrim's Progress Beowulf Elizabeth the Queen

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