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Renaissance Literary Treasures: A Quiz on the Greats

Welcome to the quiz on Renaissance Literary Treasures! Test your knowledge about the great works of literature from this remarkable era.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these plays is not written by William Shakespeare?

  1. Romeo and Juliet
  2. Hamlet
  3. Macbeth
  4. The Tempest
  5. Doctor Faustus
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the protagonist of Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene?

  1. Sir Guyon
  2. Sir Calidore
  3. Sir Artegall
  4. Sir Lancelot
  5. Sir Galahad
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In The Divine Comedy, what is the name of the poet's guide through Hell?

  1. Virgil
  2. Beatrice
  3. Saint Peter
  4. Saint Paul
  5. Saint John
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these works is a collection of essays by Michel de Montaigne?

  1. Essays
  2. Utopia
  3. The Prince
  4. Discourses on Livy
  5. The Courtier
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of the play The Merchant of Venice?

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Christopher Marlowe
  3. Ben Jonson
  4. John Milton
  5. Thomas More
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Thomas More's Utopia?

  1. Raphael Hythlodaeus
  2. Thomas More
  3. Henry VIII
  4. Cardinal Wolsey
  5. Sir Thomas Cromwell
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these works is a collection of sonnets by William Shakespeare?

  1. Sonnets
  2. The Tempest
  3. Macbeth
  4. Hamlet
  5. King Lear
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of the play Doctor Faustus?

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Christopher Marlowe
  3. Ben Jonson
  4. John Milton
  5. Thomas More
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost?

  1. Adam
  2. Eve
  3. Satan
  4. God
  5. Jesus Christ
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these works is a political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli?

  1. The Prince
  2. Discourses on Livy
  3. The Art of War
  4. Utopia
  5. The Courtier
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of the play Volpone?

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Christopher Marlowe
  3. Ben Jonson
  4. John Milton
  5. Thomas More
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier?

  1. Baldassare Castiglione
  2. Federico da Montefeltro
  3. Ludovico Ariosto
  4. Pietro Bembo
  5. Bernardo Accolti
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these works is a collection of short stories by Giovanni Boccaccio?

  1. The Decameron
  2. The Canterbury Tales
  3. One Thousand and One Nights
  4. The Arabian Nights
  5. The Heptameron
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of the play The Tempest?

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Christopher Marlowe
  3. Ben Jonson
  4. John Milton
  5. Thomas More
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel?

  1. Gargantua
  2. Pantagruel
  3. Frère Jean des Entommeures
  4. Panurge
  5. Epistemon
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