lesson 1 Renaissance Reader 5v Cam 2023

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lesson 1 Renaissance Reader 5v Cam 2023

Use your Renaissance reader to answer these questions.  

Most answers can be found on pages 2-9. 

If you don't have a reader (yet), go to itslearning to download it.  

1 When did the Renaissance in England start?

1. 1085
2. 1485
3. 1985

2 What is the literal meaning of the word Renaissance?

1. resurge
2. rebirth
3. regurgitate
4. burn to the ground

4 What was Henry of Tudor NOT?

1. a singer
2. a musician
3. a scholar
4. a model

3 How many sons did Henry of Tuder (or Henry VII) have?

1. none
2. two
3. five

5 Henry VIII was FIRST married to

1. Catherine of Aragon
2. Anne Boleyn
3. Jane Seymour
4. Anne of Cleves

6 The new church that Henry VIII founded is called

1. the Roman Catholic Church
2. the protestant church
3. the Church of Scotland
4. the Church of England

7 The person who helped him to get his divorce from Catherine of Aragon was

1. The Pope
2. Thomas More
3. Cardinal Wolsey
4. Erasmus

8 Henry VIII's son King Edward is known as the 'boy king'. He didn't live long because

1. he was a sickly child
2. he got locked up in the Tower and died there
3. he was assassinated
4. his mother took him with her to Spain

9 The name of Henry VIII's daughter who succeeded him to the throne is

1. Elisabeth I
2. Elisabeth II
3. Lady Jane Grey
4. Jane Seymour

10 Elisabeth I is known as the Virgin Queen because

1. she never had sex
2. she never married

11 Elisabeth I is famous for

1. defeating the Spanish Armada in 1588
2. uniting a Protestant England against a Catholic Spain
3. for the discovery of the New World
4. for the establishment of new colonies

12 The Elisabethan Age is also known as ...

1. the Golden Age
2. the Bronze Age
3. the Best Age
4. the Iron Age

13 William Shakespeare wasn't the only famous playwrighte during the Elisabethan Age, there's also ...

1. Charles Dickens
2. Jane Austen
3. Christopher Marlowe
4. Emile Brontë

14 Erasmus and Thomas More were both ...

1. Humanists
2. Cardinals from Rome
3. Realists
4. Scientists

17 When compared to the Middle Ages, there is a shift from communal to ... life in the Renaissance.

1. individual
2. god fearing
3. religious
4. healthy

18 The Latin phrase that illustrates Renaissace thinking is ...

1. Momento Mori
2. Pecunia non Olet
3. Carpe Diem
4. Domine, adiuva me

19 The Renaissance is also known for its renewed interest in the ...

1. past
2. future
3. classics

20 Drama is the most important form of literature in the Renaissance. Which type of play is NOT used by Shakespeare?

1. comedy
2. tragedy
3. history
4. musical

Shakespeare's influence on vocabulary.
21 Look up and use this verb meaningfully in a sentence: to hobnob

Shakespeare's influence on vocabulary.
22 Look up and use this adjective meaningfully in a sentence: lackluster

Shakespeare's influence on vocabulary.
23 Look up and use this adjective meaningfully in a sentence: zany

Shakespeare's influence on vocabulary.
24 Look up and use this adjective meaningfully in a sentence: flawed

Shakespeare's influence on vocabulary.
25 Look up and use this noun meaningfully in a sentence: courtship

Now watch this short film on The Globe Theatre

www.google.nl

When you have seen the film, go to the handout labelled Smartpass Macbeth/The Globe Theatre. This handout is also available on itslearning. 

On the first page you see a reproduction of The Globe Theatre with arrows that signal to certain places in the theatre.

On the second page you see a list. 

Match the arrows to the correct spaces.

a/discovery room

b/the stage

c/ musicians' gallery etc.

End of lesson