Jacobean Era MCQ

 Jacobean Era

1)In literature, some of Shakespeare's most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ________.

a)William Shakespeare

b)Ben Jonson

c)Ben Jonson folios

d)English Renaissance theatre

2)What proceeded Jacobean era?

a)Elizabethan Era

b)Caroline era

c)Victorian era

d)Jacobean Era

3)The Jacobean era ended with a severe economic depression in 1620–1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of ________ in London in 1625.

a)Cholera

b)Tuberculosis

c)Bubonic plague

d)Plague (disease)

4)The word "Jacobean" is derived from the ________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James.

a)Samaritan Hebrew language

b)Biblical Hebrew

c)Mishnaic Hebrew

d)Hebrew language

5)The Jacobean era succeeds the ________ and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period.

a)Elizabethan era

b)English Reformation

c)England

d)Tudor period

6)Jonson was also an important innovator in the specialized literary sub-genre of the ________, which went through an intense development in the Jacobean era.

a)William Shakespeare

b)Ben Jonson

c)Masque

d)A Midsummer Night's Dream

7)the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in which Old English epic poem.

a)Iliad

b)Odyssey

c)Beowulf

d)Canterbury Tales

8)What are the beginning and ending dates of the reign of James I ?

a)1592-1608

b)1603-1625

c)1607-1627

d)1608-1639

9)Famous satiric drama,Volpone,is written by?

a)Sir Walter Scot

b)Christopher Marlow

c)Ben Johnson

d)George Herbert

10)The foremost poet of Jacobean era was?

a)John Milton

b)Charles Bacon

c)John Donne

d)Herbert Spencer

11)"The Jacobean Era" refers to a period of time in the early 17th century in which of the following countries?

a) Jordan

b) England

c)Malaysia

d)Tunisia

>>>The foremost poets of the Jacobean era, Ben Jonson and John Donne, are regarded as the originators of two diverse poetic traditions—the Cavalier and the metaphysical.

1)b

2)b

3)c

4)d

5)a

6)c

7)c

8)b

9)c

10)c

11)b