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He succeeded Queen Elizabeth I after she died in 1603.
Who is James I?
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The single greatest literary product of the Jacobean Era
What is the King James Bible?
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Theme commonly found in Cavalier poetry
What is carpe diem (seize the day)?
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Adam was made out of this.
What is the dust of the ground?
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The fallen angel who has a conversation with Satan in Paradise Lost.
Who is Beelzebub?
200
This was the astrological debate of the time.
Who is the center of the universe?
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He wrote an epic poem while blind.
Who is John Milton?
200
The reason Amelia Lanier blames Adam for the fall of mankind in her poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum".
He was "lord and king of earth" and should have known better.
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Adam (and later Eve) was commanded not to each from this tree.
What is the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
200
Book I of Paradise Lost chiefly tells of this.
What is the fall of Satan and his rebel angels?
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"The Restoration" refers to this period in English history.
What is the period after the Civil War under the rule of Charles II when the monarchy was restored and a new Parliament elected?
300
The only member of the Cavalier poets who did not come from an aristocratic family.
Who is Ben Johnson?
300
"The Retreat" expresses a longing to return to this place.
What is heaven (a place of pre-birth innocence)?
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List one thing Charity (love) is, and one thing it is not according to I Corinthians 13.
Love - suffereth long -kind - rejoiceth in the truth - beareth all things - believeth all things - hopeth all things - endureth all things Love - envieth not - not puffed up - does not behave unseemly - not easily provoked - not self seeking - thinketh no evil - rejoiceth not in iniquity
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The Bible of the Middle Ages, before its English translation, was written in this language.
What is Latin?
400
"The Protectorate" refers to this.
What is military dictatorship established by Oliver Cromwell?
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This man produced the first English transcription of the bible.
Who is John Wycliff?
400
In "Meditation 17", John Donne uses the images of the human body, books and language, and a continent to express this idea.
What is the interconnectedness of humanity?
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The reason Adam calls his wife "Eve".
Because she was the mother of all living.
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The irony of "The Constant Lover" by Sir John Suckling.
What is the fickle nature of the lover?
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This was the main lasting effect of the English Civil War.
What is the increased influence of Parliament?
500
Three members of the "Tribe of Ben"
Who are Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, and Sir John Suckling?
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This is why John Donne tells Death (personified) to "be not proud" in "Holy Sonnet 6".
Death is not eternal and not as dreadful as people think.
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List one curse that is placed on Adam, Eve, and the serpent after the fall of mankind.
Adam - will have to struggle to feed his family - he is now mortal and will one day die Eve - painful childbirth - Adam will rule over her - she is now mortal and will one day die Serpent - will now crawl on the ground - will be hated by humans
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"The chief lord" of Vanity Fair
Who is Beelzebub?