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Question 1: It is associated with the pan-European ________ that many cultural historians believe originated in Tuscany in the 14th century.
Italian RenaissanceWestern art historyBaroqueRenaissance

Question 2: This era in English cultural history is sometimes referred to as "the age of Shakespeare" or "the ________", the first period in English and British history to be named after a reigning monarch.
EnglandEnglish ReformationElizabethan eraTudor period

Question 3: Historians have also begun to consider the word "Renaissance" as an unnecessarily loaded word that implies an unambiguously positive "rebirth" from the supposedly more primitive ________.
Middle AgesEarly Middle AgesHigh Middle AgesLate Middle Ages

Question 4: Indeed, England had already experienced a flourishing of literature over 200 years before the time of Shakespeare when ________ was working.
The Legend of Good WomenThe Canterbury TalesGeoffrey ChaucerThe Knight's Tale

Question 5: At the same time William Langland, author of ________, and John Gower were also writing in English.
Geoffrey ChaucerPiers Plowman traditionPiers PlowmanThe Canterbury Tales

Question 6: The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in ________ dating from the early 16th century to the early 17th century.
ScotlandEnglandWalesUnited Kingdom

Question 7: The notion of calling this period "The Renaissance" is a modern invention, having been popularized by the historian ________ in the 19th century.
Friedrich NietzscheArthur SchopenhauerJacob BurckhardtArt history

Question 8: Chaucer's popularizing of English as a medium of literary composition rather than ________ occurred only 50 years after Dante had started using Italian for serious poetry.
LatinRoman EmpireOld LatinVulgar Latin

Question 9: ________, Thomas Morley, and William Byrd were the most notable English musicians of the time, and are often seen as being a part of the same artistic movement that inspired the above authors.
Thomas CranmerThomas TallisDover PrioryGreenwich

Question 10: The English period began far later than the Italian, which is usually considered to begin with Dante, Petrarch and ________ in the early 1300s, and was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier.
ItalyItalian RenaissanceFlorenceGiotto di Bondone
















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