1) Prothalamion, the commonly used name of Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset, is a poem by Edmund Spenser , one of the important poets of the Tudor period in England. It was published in the year of _______?
A:) 1555
B:) 1552
C:) 1599
D:) 1596
springline's Correct option: D:) 1596
2) Prothalamion is written in the conventional form of a marriage song. The poem begins with a description of the River Thomas where Spenser finds two beautiful maidens. The River Thames known alternatively in parts as the ____?
A:) River Isis
B:) River severn
C:) River Tamar
D:) River canton
springline's Correct option: A:) River Isis
3) Prothalamion is a nuptial song that the author composed that year on the occasion of the twin marriage of the daughters of the Earl of Worcester, Elizabeth Somerset and Katherine Somerset, to Sir Henry Guildford and William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre respectively. What is meant by “Nuptial”?
A:) Proposal
B:) Wedding
C:) Love
D:) Supersitious
springline's Correct option: B:) Wedding
4) In Prothalamion the poet is standing near the Thames River and finds a group of nymphs with baskets collecting flowers for the new brides. The poet tells us that they are happily making the bridal crowns for ____________?
A:) Katherine and William petre
B:) Elizabeth and Baron Petre
C:) Elizabeth and Katherine
D:) William petre and Baron Petre
springline's Correct option: C:) Elizabeth and Katherine
5) The poem Prothalamion begins with a fine description of the day when on which he is writing the poem: Calm was the day and through the trembling air The sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly In this Zephyrus sometimes shortened in English to Zephyr, is the Greek god of the ________?
A:) Nymphs
B:) East Wind
C:) Nature
D:) West Wind
springline's Correct option: D:) West Wind
6) In Prothalamion ,The poet goes on his poem describing two swans at the Thames, relating it to the myth of Jove and Leda. In Greek mythology, Leda was an Aetolian princess who became a Spartan queen. Her myth gave rise to the popular motif in ______?
A:) Renaissance
B:) Restoration
C:) Reformation
D:) Political Influence
springline's Correct option: A:) Renaissance
7) American-born British poet T.S.Eliot quotes the line from Prothalamion , 'Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song' in his poem in 1922. In Which poem did T.S.Eliot quote this line?
A:) The Hollow man
B:) The Wasteland
C:) Four Quartets
D:) Ash Wednesday
springline's Correct option: B:) The Wasteland
8) The Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603 in England and Wales and includes the Elizabethan period during the reign of Elizabeth I until 1603. The Tudor period coincides with the dynasty of the House of Tudor in England whose first monarch was ___________?
A:) Henry VII
B:) Henry VI
C:) Edward VI
D:) Queen Mary
springline's Correct option: A:) Henry VII
9) Edmund Spenser who is one of the important poets of the Tudor Period in England. John Guy (1988) argued that 'England was economically healthier, more expansive, and more optimistic under the Tudors' than at any time since the Roman occupation. Who is John Guy ?
A:) Literarian
B:) Socioligist
C:) PublicHistorian
D:) Theologist
springline's Correct option: C:) PublicHistorian
10) In Prothalamion one of the character is William Petre. He had married Katherine Somerset (1575–1624), second daughter of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester in a double ceremony with her sister Elizabeth. Edmund Spenser celebrated the event in his poem, Prothalamion. Elizabeth married _____?
A:) Baron Petre
B:) Sir Henry Guilfold
C:) Leda
D:) Java
springline's Correct option: B:) Sir Henry Guilfold
11) In Prothalamion , Petre had married Katherine Somerset (1575–1624), second daughter of Edward Somerset 4th Earl of Worcester. Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester, (c. 1550 – 3 March 1628) was an English aristocrat. He was an important advisor of _______?
A:) Henry VI
B:) James I
C:) Edward II
D:) Henry VIII
springline's Correct option: B:) James I
12) Prothalamion is a poem by Edmund Spenser. In this poem, Katherine Petre danced in the court masque Tethys' Festival on 5 June 1610 in the character of the 'Nymph of Olwy', a tributary of the River Usk. Tethys' Festival was a masque produced on _________?
A:) 5th June 1610
B:) 7th May 1612
C:) 6th June 1612
D:) 5th may 1610
springline's Correct option: A:) 5th June 1610
13) Tethys' Festival was a masque to celebrate the investiture of Prince Henry (1594–1612) as Prince of Wales. Prince Henry, the son of James VI and Anne of Denmark, was made Prince of Wales . Among the formalities and festivities of the occasion, the masque Tethys' Festival was performed by courtiers at Whitehall Palace. The script was written by Samuel Daniel at the request of the queen, who appeared in person as Tethys as a _________?
A:) God of Wine
B:) God of Nymph
C:) God of Wind
D:) Goddess of sea
springline's Correct option: D:) Goddess of sea
14) Triton is usually represented as a merman, with the upper body of a human and the tailed lower body of a fish. At some time during the Greek and Roman era, Triton(s) became a generic term for a merman (mermen) in art and literature. In English literature, Triton is portrayed as ________?
A:) Muses
B:) Messenger
C:) Greek God
D:) God of Love
springline's Correct option: B:) Messenger
15) Earl of Worcester is a title that has been created five times in the Peerage of England. The first creation came in 1138 in favour of the Norman noble Waleran de Beaumont. When did the second creation come _______?
A:) 1167
B:) 1238
C:) 1397
D:) 1313
springline's Correct option: C:) 1397
16) Epithalamion is an ode written to Spenser’s bride, Elizabeth Boyle, on their wedding day in 1594. It was first published in London by _______?
A:) Edmund Spenser
B:) William Ponsonby
C:) Sir Walter Raleigh
D:) Henry Clay Floger
springline's Correct option: B:) William Ponsonby
17) In Epithalamion ,the volume included the sequence of 89 sonnets , along with a series of short poems called Anacreontics and the Epithalamion, a public poetic celebration of marriage. How many completed copies were there in the first edition ?
A:) Four
B:) Five
C:) Six
D:) Seven
springline's Correct option: C:) Six
18) Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of _____?
A:) Zeus
B:) Christ
C:) Moon
D:) Thracian
springline's Correct option: A:) Zeus
19) The Muses are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, lyric songs, and myths that were related orally for centuries in _______?
A:) Ancient Latin Culture
B:) Ancient Latin Tradition
C:) Ancient Greek Culture
D:) Ancient Greek People
springline's Correct option: C:) Ancient Greek Culture
20) In Epithalamion ,The volume memorializes Spenser's courtship of Elizabeth Boyle, a young woman, and the couple's wedding on June 11, 1594'. In the sonnets of Amoretti Spenser succeeds in 'immortalizing the name of his bride to be ... by devices of word play'. Elizabeth Boyle is a wellborn ________?
A:) Anglo-Irish women
B:) American Women
C:) Scottist Women
D:) Irish Women
springline's Correct option: A:) Anglo-Irish women
21) The word Muses (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, romanized: Moûsai) perhaps came from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (the basic meaning of which is 'put in mind'. The earliest known records of the Muses come from________?
A:) Thracian
B:) Boeotia
C:) Melete
D:) Ouronas
springline's Correct option: B:) Boeotia
22) In Greek mythology, Calliope is the Muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry; so called from the ecstatic harmony of her voice. Hesiod and Ovid called her the _________?
A:) Chief Muse of Epic
B:) Chief of Poetic Muse
C:) Chief of all Muses
D:) Chief of Goddess
springline's Correct option: C:) Chief of all Muses
23) The poem Epithalamion describes the day in detail. The couple wakes up and Spenser begs the muses to help him on his artistic endeavor for the day. When she finally wakes, the two head to the church. Hymenaeus is sung by the minstrels at the festivities. As the ceremony begins, Spenser shifts from praising Greek Gods and beings praise Elizabeth to the language of ____________?
A:) Greek Language
B:) Christian Language
C:) Court Language
D:) Mythical Language
springline's Correct option: B:) Christian Language
24) In Epithalamion the 15th stanza, Spenser changes the structure. Throughout the poem, the stanzas are structured with 18 or 19 lines. In the 15th, there is a line missing. The rhyming structure typically goes ABABCC, then DEDEFF and so on. But stanza 15 the rhyming scheme be _______?
A:) FEGGHH
B:) EEGGHH
C:) FFGEHG
D:) FEGHEF
springline's Correct option: A:) FEGGHH
26) In Epithalamion , every hour is described in detail; from what is being worn to where the wedding is taking place to Spenser's own thoughts. The 24 stanzas represent the 24 hours in a day and the 365 longer lines represent every day in a year. Spenser's wedding is one day; the first 16 stanzas are the day time. Which stanzas did come in night time of this poem ?
A:) Last 7 stanzas
B:) Last 8 stanzas
C:) Middle 8 stanzas
D:) Last 9 stanzas
springline's Correct option: B:) Last 8 stanzas
27) Who wrote about how the poem connected to the Protestant Reform of the time 'Spenser’s Epithalamion reflects this communal joy as it narrates a public celebration of marriage, and does so in song and psalmic refrains ?
A:) Larson Keeneth
B:) Samuel Daniel
C:) James Lambert
D:) James Larson
springline's Correct option: C:) James Lambert
28) James Larsen spoke of the poem ‘Epithalamion’ in his critical edition: 'Epithalamion is a poem which gives ritualized and public affect to the personal on a number of levels, cosmographical, publicly prayerful and euchological.'Whose essay praised the hidden message in the poem of Epithalamion ?
A:) James Lambert
B:) Melissa Sanchez
C:) Michael Drayton
D:) Samuel Daniel
springline's Correct option: B:) Melissa Sanchez
29) Spenser lived from 1552 to 1599. Works in this time period are considered Early Modern literature, which spanned from the Baroque period to the Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Reason or simply the Enlightenment) was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the centuries of ________?
A:) Early 17th century
B:) Early 18th century
C:) Middle of 16th and 17th century
D:) 17th and 18th century
springline's Correct option: D:) 17th and 18th century
30) In Epithalamion, the ode's content progresses from the enthusiasm of youth to the concerns of middle age by beginning with high hopes for a joyful day and ending with an eye toward the speaker’s legacy to future generation. Spenser meticulously records the hours of the day from before dawn to late into the wedding night: its 24 stanzas represent the hours of____________?
A:) Spring Day
B:) Mid-Summer Day
C:) Mid-winter Day
D:) Mid-Wind Day
springline's Correct option: B:) Mid-Summer Day