Quiz: Religion and Humanism
Utopia
- Whom did More represent in parliament?
- What was the original title of this work, and what did it mean?
- The editor suggests that Utopia resists "efforts to fix its meaning" because of two things. What are they?
- What two popular Renaissance genres does Utopia rely on?
- Give some examples of Utopia's "paratexts."
- What does the name "utopia" pun on? Why?
- What does the protagonist's name, Raphael Hytholoday, mean, and who is he supposed to be?
- How does More use the character "More"?
Utopia text (Book 2, Chapter 9)
- What's the name of the Utopian "supreme God"?
- Why did the Utopians immediately adopt Christianity?
- What kinds of Utopians are disciplined? Why?
- King Utopus made acceptance of a single religion optional.What did he not make optional? Why?
- How do religious figures "win happiness after death"?
- Religious figures can be divided into two groups: the wiser and the holier. How?
- Explain the division of labor betwen "priests" and Governors and other magistrates"?
- How do Utopian priests conduct themselves in war?
- How do Utopians say prayers in church?
- Whom does the narrator call parasites?
- What monster keeps Christ from abolishing the evils causes by money?
Anne Askew
- How does Anne Askew respond to the first question posed to her by the Lord Mayor and the rest of the inquest?
- What are three things about which she, as a protestant, differs from the Catholics (or "Papists") who question her?
- Gvie an example of how Askew uses her gender in her defense?
- In "I am a woman poor and blind, what does the protagonist (supposedly Askew) call "stinking meat"? What does she call a "simple carcas"?
John Foxe (Benefit and Invention of Printing)
- Who does Foxe credit with inventing "the divine and miraculous invention of printing"?
- To what "end and purpose," according to Foxe, did God "give this gift of printing to the earth"?
- How, according to Foxe, should the Pope deal with printing?
- What does Foxe believe will be the ultimate result of printing?
Lady Margaret Hoby's Diary
- What "just punishment" for her sins does Hoby receive on August 17?
- On September 16, what are the last two things Hoby does before bedtime?
- What unusual phenomena does Hoby see on May 5 and August 26, 1601?
- What accounts, according to Hoby, for the plague outbreak on October 23, 1603?