1. What event is generally considered the starting point of the English Renaissance?
2. The term Renaissance is derived from which language and what does it mean?
3. Which movement defined the intellectual spirit of the Renaissance?
4. What work by Philip Sidney serves as a pinnacle of Renaissance literary criticism?
5. What is the term for the Renaissance poetic device of joining vastly different ideas through an extended metaphor?
6. Which city was the epicenter of England’s economic, cultural, and literary life during the Renaissance?
7. Renaissance humanism emphasized the revival of what?
8. What event brought the English Renaissance to a close?
9. Renaissance public theaters were primarily located in which city?
10. Which group opposed “popish” practices in the Church of England during the Renaissance?
11. Which plague posed a constant threat to Renaissance London?
12. What marked the beginning of the English Renaissance for most scholars?
13. What was the primary intellectual movement of the English Renaissance?
14. What literary form did Philip Sidney defend in The Defence of Poesy?
15. How did political tensions shape Renaissance literature?
