Question 11 pts

What does the skull between the two ambassadors in Holbein's The Ambassadorsrepresent?

Group of answer choices

Henry VIII's tendency to execute his enemies

Memento mori- that fate that awaits us all

Human blindness to the inevitable

None of the above

Flag question: Question 2Question 21 pts

What technique does Holbein use with the skull in The Ambassadors?

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Linear perspective

Atmospheric perspective

Foreshortening

Anamorphic projection

Flag question: Question 3Question 31 pts

Which of the following would not be part of More's ideal society?

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Freedom of religion

Work for common good

Common ownership of property

Education for every person

Flag question: Question 4Question 41 pts

Why did Henry order the execution of his friend Thomas More?

Group of answer choices

For committing adultery with Anne Boleyn

For opposing Henry's starting the Church of England

For secretly supporting Martin Luther's reforms

For claiming that Anne Boleyn's child was not a legitimate heir.

Flag question: Question 5Question 51 pts

Why did Mary I order mass executions of Protestants when she assumed the throne in 1553?

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Like her mother, Mary was a devout Catholic

To gain Rome's aid in defeating invading French

She blamed Protestants for her brother's death

To appease her Catholic husband, Philip of Spain

Flag question: Question 6Question 61 pts

Why did drama become so popular during the Elizabethan period?

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Elizabeth insisted on entertainment for the Londoners

The London monasteries were converted to theaters

The middle and upper classes had more leisure time

Plays gave expression to England's religious strife

Flag question: Question 7Question 71 pts

Why is Hamlet the most desired role and the most often performed character in the history of the English stage?

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His multiple soliloquys

His dramatic death

His openness and complexity

His tormented love affair

Flag question: Question 8Question 81 pts

Why does Marlowe's Dr. Faustus turn to black magic?

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Dissatisfaction with traditional scholarship

Desire of achieving immortality

Wish to be the world's greatest professor

Anger about dissention in religion

Flag question: Question 9Question 91 pts

Why was portraiture so popular in Tudor England?

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Portraits represented the new sense of middle-class wealth

Henry had banned artists from painting religious scenes

The English wished to emulate the Renaissance Italians

Portraits show the humanist emphasis on individualism

Flag question: Question 10Question 101 pts

A soliloquy

Group of answer choices

is a dialogbetween two characters

is a long speech expressing the character's innermost thoughts

is only implemented in a tragedy

none of the above