1. The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and it is one of the longest poems in the English language. How many stanzas were in this poem ?
a) 5000 stanzas
b) 4000 stanzas
c) 4500 stanzas
d) 5100 stanzas
springline's Correct option: b) 4000 stanzas
1) Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. He was died at his age of _____?
A:) 30
B:) 31
C:) 32
D:) 39
springline's Correct option: B:) 31
2) The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personification of Great Britain) was first used in the year of ________?
A:) 1572
B:) 1582
C:) 1573
D:) 1583
springline's Correct option: A:) 1572
3) Returning to England in 1575, Sidney met Penelope Devereux (who would later marry Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick). Although much younger, she would inspire his famous sonnet sequence of the 1580s___________?
A:) Sonnet 31
B:) Sonnet 18
C:) Astrophel and Stella
D:) Arcadia
springline's Correct option: C:) Astrophel and Stella
4) Like the best of the Elizabethans, Sidney was successful in more than one branch of literature, but none of his work appeared until his lifetime. His finest achievement was a sequence of __________?
A:) 108 Love Sonnets
B:) 107 Love Poems
C:) 108 Love themes
D:) 102 Love Sonnets
springline's Correct option: A:) 108 Love Sonnets
5) Written to his mistress, Lady Penelope Rich, though dedicated to his wife, they reveal true lyric emotion couched in a language delicately archaic. In form Sidney usually adopts the Petrarchan octave , with variations in the sestet that include the English final couplet. Petrarchan octave has a rhyming scheme of______________?
A:) AABBABBA
B:) ABBAABBA
C:) ABABABAB
D:) AABABBAA
springline's Correct option: B:) ABBAABBA
6) “Never more than a marginal figure in the politics of his time, he was memorialised as the flower of English manhood in Edmund Spenser's Astrophel, one of the greatest English Renaissance elegies. An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow____________?
A:) Hesiod
B:) Henry Clay Floger
C:) Stephen Gosson
D:) Fulke Greville
springline's Correct option: D:) Fulke Greville
7) The Apology For Poetry, is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in the year of _________?
A:) 1578
B:) 1579
C:) 1577
D:) 1576
springline's Correct option: B:) 1579
8) Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato. In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on ________?
A:) Poetry
B:) Drama
C:) Fiction
D:) Novel
springline's Correct option: C:) Fiction
9) Philip Sidney's influence can be seen throughout the subsequent history of English literary criticism. One of the most important examples is in the work of the poet and critic Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley's modern argument for poetry is cast in a Romantic strain in his critical work _______?.
A:) The art of Poetry
B:) A Defence of Poetry
C:) The School of Abuse
D:) Astrophel and Stella
springline's Correct option: B:) A Defence of Poetry
10) Sidney's influence on future writers could also be analyzed from the standpoint of his handling of the utilitarian viewpoint. The utilitarian view of rhetoric can be traced from Sophists, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Petrus Ramus and humanists to Sidney. For instance, Sidney, following Aristotle, writes that praxis (human action) is tantamount to gnosis. Gnosis is a Greek noun for______?
A:) Human
B:) Knowledge
C:) Wisdom
D:) God
springline's Correct option: B:) Knowledge
11) From Sidney, the utilitarian view of rhetoric can be traced to Coleridge's criticism, and for instance, to the reaction to the Enlightenment. Coleridge's brief treatise On Poesy or Art which bears a remarkable resemblance to that of Sidney. On Poesy or Art sets forth theory of _______?
A:) Imitation
B:) Philosophy
C:) Literature
D:) Imagination
springline's Correct option: A:) Imitation
12) An Apology for Poetry is one of the most important contributions to literary theory written in English during the Renaissance. Sidney advocates a place for poetry within the framework of an aristocratic state, while showing concern for both literary and _______?
A:) Imitation of Art
B:) National Identity
C:) Poetry
D:) Religious
springline's Correct option: B:) National Identity
13) Utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for all affected individuals.Who is the founder of utilitarianism?
A:) Jeremy Bentham
B:) Hesiod
C:) Henry Clay Floger
D:) William Tyndale
springline's Correct option: A:) Jeremy Bentham
14) Sidney's program of literary reform concerns the connection between art and virtue. One of the themes of the Apology is the insufficiency of simply presenting virtue as a precept; the poet must move men to virtuous action. Poetry can lead to virtuous action. Action relates to ________?
A:) Deed
B:) Experience
C:) Learning
D:) Execution
springline's Correct option: B:) Experience
15) To Sidney the poet is not tied to any subjection. He saw art as equivalent to 'skill', a profession to be learned or developed, and nature as the objective, empirical world. The poet can invent, and thus in effect grows another______?
A:) Poet
B:) World
C:) Nature
D:) Knowledge
springline's Correct option: C:) Nature
16) 'Fore-conceit' means that a conception of the work must exist in the poet's mind before it is written. Free from the limitations of nature, and independent from nature, poetry is capable of 'making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in Nature', Whose notion is this ?
A:) John Donne
B:) Philip Sidney
C:) Stephen Gosson
D:) Shelley
springline's Correct option: B:) Philip Sidney
17) Sidney thirdly implies a theory of metaphoric language in his work of Apology for Poetry. A recurring motif in Apology is painting or “portraiture”. Apology applies language use in a way suggestive of what is known in modern literary theory as _______?
A:) Formalism
B:) Historicism
C:) New Criticism
D:) Semiotics
springline's Correct option: D:) Semiotics
18) In 1858, a Cambridge-educated translator, poet and essayist, writes in his essay 'Sir Philip Sidney' that Shelley's beautifully written Defence of Poetry is a work which 'analyses the very inner essence of poetry and the reason of its existence,—its development from, and operation on, the mind of man' and who is that essayist?
A:) William Stigant
B:) William Adams
C:) Joseph Addison
D:) Alexander Allen
springline's Correct option: A:) William Stigant
19) Philip Sidney’s central premise, as was that of Socrates in Plato's Republic, is that poetry is an art of imitation, that is, a 'representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth' not unlike a 'speaking picture'. Sidney pays his homage also to ________?
A:) Plato
B:) Aristotle
C:) Horace
D:) Stephen Gosson
springline's Correct option: B:) Aristotle
20) Sidney develops his own idea of metaphoric language, one that it is based on an analogy through universal correspondences. Sidney's humanist poetics and his tendency to harmonize disparate extremes – to seek mediation – find expression in poetic works by ___________?
A:) T.S. Eliot
B:) John Keats
C:) William Langland
D:) John Donne
springline's Correct option: D:) John Donne
21) The life and writings of Sir Philip Sidney remain a legacy. In 1858 William Stigant wrote that 'Sidney's real poem was his life, and his teaching was his example'. Sidney, the man, is apparent everywhere in his works: a study of Sidney's works is a study of the man. In 1819, Who concludes that Sidney's life was 'poetry in action'?
A:) Thomas Campbell
B:) Dylan Thomas
C:) Robert Burns
D:) Rudyard Kipling
springline's Correct option: A:) Thomas Campbell
22) What is at stake in Sidney's argument is a defense of poetry's nobility. The significance of the nobility of poetry is its power to move readers to virtuous action. True poets must teach and delight – a view that dates back to _______?
A:) Homer
B:) Horace
C:) Plato
D:) Aristotle
springline's Correct option: B:) Horace
23) Sidney employs a number of strategies to assert the proper place of poetry. For instance, he argues against the way in which poetry was misaligned with youth, the effeminate and the timorous. For the Defense Sidney writes An Apology for Poetry in the form of a________?
A:) Free Verse
B:) Formal Oration
C:) Judicial Oration
D:) Narrative
springline's Correct option: C:) Judicial Oration
24) Sidney had his own views on drama. In Apology, he shows opposition to the current of his day that pays little attention to unity of place in drama, but more specifically, his concern is with the 'manner' that the 'matter' is conveyed. He explains that tragedy is not bound to history or the narrative but to _________?
A:) Laws of Poesy
B:) Laws of Criticism
C:) Laws of Poet
D:) Laws of Prose
springline's Correct option: A:) Laws of Poesy
25) Sidney also uses metaphor and allegory, to conceal and reveal his position in Apology for poetry. For instance, his use of horsemanship as imagery and analogy substantiates his vision of the transformational power of poetry. Sidney, as author, enters his work undetected in that the etymology of his name “Philip” means__________?
A:) Country-lover
B:) Horse-lover
C:) Courage
D:) to love
springline's Correct option: B:) Horse-lover
26) Method and style are thus key components of the Apology to overcome the problem of censorship. For this reason, Sidney consciously defends fiction, and he attacks the privilege that is accorded to “_________”?
A:) Method
B:) Style
C:) Fact
D:) Form
springline's Correct option: C:) Fact
27) Gosson was baptized at St George's church, Canterbury, on 17 in April 1554. In 1598 Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia mentions, him with Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Abraham Fraunce and others as the 'best for pastorall', but no pastorals of Gosson's are extant. Gosson dedicated, however, a second tract, The Ephemerides of Phialo ... and A Short Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse, to Sidney on 28 October_______?
A:) 1577
B:) 1579
C:) 1578
D:) 1576
springline's Correct option: B:) 1579
28) Sir Philip Sidney who is , Never more than a marginal figure in the politics of his time, he was memorialised as the flower of English manhood in Edmund Spenser's one of the greatest English Renaissance elegies of _________?
A:) Astrophel and Stella
B:) The Defence of Poetry
C:) Astrophel
D:) Lycidas
springline's Correct option: C:) Astrophel
29) In Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written in approximately 1580 and first published in the year of_________?
A:) 1595
B:) 1585
C:) 1592
D:) 1590
springline's Correct option: A:) 1595
30) According to the one story, Sidney while lying wounded, he gave his water to another wounded soldier, saying, 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine'. This became possibly the most famous story about Sir Philip, intended to illustrate his noble and gallant character. It also inspired evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith to formulate a problem in “Signalling theory” which is known as the _______?
A:) Sir Philip Sidney Story
B:) Sir Philip Sidney Game
C:) Sidney’s Fame
D:) Sidney’s History
springline's Correct option: B:) Sir Philip Sidney Game