SC-ENGLISH - Quiz
  • 1. The study and documentation of past events.
A) None of the above
B) Past events
C) Old age
D) History
E) 15-Century
  • 2. Also known as the Anglo-Saxon Period
A) Old English Period
B) Renaissance Period
C) History
D) Age of Revival
E) None of the above
  • 3. Started with the Norman conquest in 1066 AD
A) Middle English Period
B) Old English Period
C) History
D) None of the above
E) Age of Revival
  • 4. Opening moment of English Literature
A) Age of Revival
B) Age of Chaucer
C) History
D) Old English Period
E) None of the above
  • 5. He/she translated the Latin Bible to vernacular English
A) None of the above
B) Agatha Cristie
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) John Wycliffe
E) William Langland
  • 6. Most important characteristic at this age is Renaissance
    Humanism
A) Age of Revival
B) Age of Chaucer
C) Elizabethan Age
D) Old English Period
E) None of the above
  • 7. The beginning of the Tudor Dynasty
A) Renaissance Period
B) Age of Revival
C) None of the above
D) Old English Period
E) Age of Chaucer
  • 8. Golden Age of England
A) Old English Period
B) None of the above
C) Age of Revival
D) Renaissance Period
E) Age of Chaucer
  • 9. He/she was the founder of the Scientific Movement
A) William Shakespeare
B) Francis Bacon
C) Christopher Marlowe
D) Philip Sidney
E) Addison
  • 10. Also known as the “Enlightenment Age”
A) Golden Age
B) Romantic Age
C) Age of Revival
D) Neoclassical Age
E) None of the above
  • 11. Scientific revolution started and scientists/mathematicians
    such as Newton and Galileo became known.
A) Age of Revival
B) Neoclassical Age
C) None of the above
D) Golden Age
E) Romantic Age
  • 12. Dictionary of English was published by ----------
A) Edmund Spenser
B) Henry Fielding
C) Samuel Johnson
D) None of the above
E) Francis Bacon
  • 13. Writers at this time turned to nature.
A) Victorian Age
B) Renaissance Period
C) None of the above
D) Golden Age
E) Romantic Age
  • 14. Next golden age of England
A) None of the above
B) Victorian Age
C) Golden Age
D) Romantic Age
E) Renaissance Period
  • 15. He/she published the “Origin of Species”
A) Lord Byron
B) Victoria
C) Charles Dickens
D) None of the above
E) Charles Darwin
  • 16. He/she wrote about the social condition of England
A) Victoria
B) Charles Dickens
C) None of the above
D) Lord Byron
E) Charles Darwin
  • 17. World War I (1914-1918)
A) Modern Age
B) Golden Age
C) Age of Revival
D) Contemporary Age
E) None of the above
  • 18. Writers became interested in the functioning of the mind after
    Sigmund Freud published the “Interpretation of Dreams.”
A) Anglo-Saxon Period
B) Modern Age
C) Golden Age
D) Contemporary Age
E) None of the above
  • 19. USA became a super power
A) Anglo-Saxon Period
B) Modern Age
C) None of the above
D) Contemporary Age
E) Golden Age
  • 20. Settings are usually in the modern or current era
A) Anglo-Saxon Period
B) Contemporary Age
C) None of the above
D) Golden Age
E) Anglo-Saxon Period
  • 21. Mostly based on real-life situations and realistic themes
A) None of the above
B) Golden Age
C) Anglo-Saxon Period
D) Modern Age
E) Contemporary Age
  • 22. Defined as material written and produced
    for the information or entertainment of children and young
    adults. It includes all nonfiction, literary, and artistic genres, and
    physical formats.
A) Children’s Literature
B) Anglo-Saxon Period
C) 16th Century
D) Lyric poetry
E) None of the above
  • 23. Invented the printing press in 1458.
A) King Arthur
B) John Gutenburg
C) Willian Caxton
D) None of the above
E) Samuel Beckett
  • 24. He published
    lesson books and books of courtesy which were guide books in
    conduct for the youth of society’s upper classes.
A) Chaucer
B) None of the above
C) John Gutenburg
D) Samuel Beckett
E) Willian Caxton
  • 25. Were used at the hour of prime as a
    book of private devotions
A) ABC books or primers
B) Children's book
C) Chapbooks
D) Hornbooks
E) None of the above
  • 26. It has alphabet, vowel and consonant combinations,
    and the Lord’s Prayer, a form of a cross and praise of the Trinity,
    which is at the bottom.
A) ABC books or primers
B) None of the above
C) Hornbooks
D) Children's book
E) Chapbooks
  • 27. Were not real books but made of a wooden paddle
    with lessons tacked on and covered by a piece of transparent
    horn which is easy to handle or hung around the neck of the
    children.
A) None of the above
B) ABC books or primers
C) Hornbooks
D) Chaucer
E) Children's book
  • 28. He/she published the Boke of Curtayse,
    which talks about proper manner and morals.
A) Chaucer
B) None of the above
C) Aesop
D) John Gutenburg
E) Willian Caxton
  • 29. These pamphlets were the
    forerunner of today’s comic books where children enjoyed
    reading the illustrations while they learned of popular myths,
    legends, and other traditional stories.
A) Chapbooks
B) Hornbooks
C) ABC books or primers
D) Aesop
E) None of the above
  • 30. Contained
    pages of the alphabet each representing a biblical concept.
A) The Little Bible of England
B) None of the above
C) Orbis Sensualium
D) Aesop’s Fables
E) Chapbooks
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