Q. During the Renaissance
a) A new middle class emerged
b) People started moving to the countryside
c) People became poorer
Q. Which play is considered the first English tragedy?
a) Hamlet
b) Gorboduc
c) The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
d) The Dolls House
Q. “Rebirth”-a time of increased learning and knowledge in science, literature, and the arts between 1400 and 1700.
a) Verisimilitude
b) Renaissance
c) Crusades
d) Age of Independence
Q. Improvisational comic plays, with stock characters and lazzi. The actors did not memorize lines, but improvised from scenarios.
a) Italianate Theatre
b) Opera
c) Commedia dell’arte
d) Neoclassical
Q. The use of scientific rather than religious principles as the basis of logical thought.
a) Humanism
b) Secularism
c) Realism
d) Neoclassicism
Q. The idea that ‘all things are possible to man.’ The idea that man should be concerned with what he can accomplish in the here and now.
a) Humanism
b) Secularism
c) Realism
d) Materialism
Q. The use of Greek and Roman models as the inspiration for new art. This was the artistic ideal during the Renaissance.
a) Secularism
b) Humanism
c) Renaissance
d) Neoclassicism
Q. In the Prologue, who introduces the story of Doctor Faustus?
a) The Chorus
b) Mephastophilis
c) Faustus
d) Wagner
Q. To which Greek mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue?
a) Hercules
b) Perseus
c) Icarus
d) Theseus
Q. What fields of learning does Faustus consider before he turns to magic?
a) Chemistry, biology, and physics
b) Logic, medicine, law, and theology
c) Navigation, astronomy, rhetoric and theology
d) Grammar, History, Science, Latin