Which of the following figures was an important political theorist of the Renaissance?

A. Martin Luther
B. Leonardo
C. Niccole Machiavelli
D. Edmund Spenser

Answer

D. Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser was born and died in:

A. 1522-1572
B. 1552-1599
C. 1512-1532
D. 1532-1592

Answer

B. 1552-1599

Who described Chaucer as “The Well of English undefiled”?

A. Philip Sidney
B. Milton
C. John Donne
D. Edmund Spencer

Answer

D. Edmund Spencer

Who said “Spenser writ no language”?

A. Ben Johnson
B. Marlowe
C. Dryden
D. Shakespeare

Answer

A. Ben Johnson

Who called Spenser the “Poets’ Poet”?

A. Charles lamb
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Mary Lamb

Answer

A. Charles lamb

Who described Chaucer as? “The Well of English undefiled”

A. Edmund Spencer
B. John Milton
C. William Blake
D. William Wordsworth

Answer

A. Edmund Spencer

Edmund Spenser’s “Epithalamion” contains _____ stanzas for each hour of the day.

A. 24
B. 25
C. 27
D. 30

A. 24

Who wrote the introductory sonnet to Spencer’s Fairy Queen?

A. Bertrand Russell
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Francis Bacon
D. Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer

D. Friedrich Nietzsche

Spenser dedicated his Shepheard’s Calendar to whom?

A. Milton
B. John Donne
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. Philip Sidney

Answer

D. Philip Sidney