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1
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What was the major event that opened the door for expansion and change of the Elizabethean age

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The defeat of the Spanish Armada

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Both John Knox and John Fox as well as others were encouraged in there prose writing after reading what

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The great Bible and the book of common prayer

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What was John Fox’s purpose in writing acts and monuments? to produce it work that would never allow English people what

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To forget the cruelty and suffering imposed on Christians

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What did sir Walter Raley do while awaiting execution

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Wrote history of the world

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With what did the Elizabethean theater have its origin

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Miracle, mystery, and morality plays

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Who wrote the play Mac Beth

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William Shakespeare

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Is Mac Beth a tragedy history comedy or Soliloquy

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Tragedy

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What is an actor doing when he is speaking to himself alone on the stage to let the audience know what he is thinking and feeling

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Giving a soliloquy

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Who is Mac Beth probably written to honor

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James I

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Who are the main characters in Mac Beth

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Mac Beth and lady McBeth

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Where is the setting for Macbeth

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Scotland

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Why can Christians appreciate the works of Shakespeare

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Through his plots and characters, he often incorporate scriptural principles and biblical themes

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What biblical principle is a character Mac Beth and example of

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The biblical principle of reaping what you sow is illustrated in the play went back Beth and lady McBeth both die as a result of their murderous acts

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And what do subjects and verbs must agree

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Number and person

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In general what kind of verbs do you singular subject require? and which subjects require plural verb

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Singular verb’s… Plural verbs

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Which personal pronouns take singular verbs

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He, she, and it

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Which personal pronouns take plural verbs

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We, you, and they

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Which personal pronoun is the exception

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I

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Certain indefinite pronouns and collective nouns can be either one of two things. What are those two things

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Singular or plural

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Compound subjects joined by “and” require what verb; those joined by “or” or “nor” require a verb that agrees with the subject near what?

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Plural… Verb

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What does a verb agree with when the sentence begins with here or there

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The subject

22
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When a relative pronoun is the subject, the verb agrees with the what other pronoun

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Antecedent

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Even if the predicate noun that it is a different number with what does the verb agree

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Subject

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Words like “measles”, “news”, “economics” and “United States” appear to be what but take what verbs

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Plural… Singular

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Credulous

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To ready to believe

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Agument

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Increase or enlarge

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Embodiment

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Person or thing symbolizing an idea or quality

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Evince

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Show clearly; manifest

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Veritable

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True; real

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Heinous

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Very wicked; extremely offensive

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Perpetrator

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One who commits a foolish act

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Vernacular

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Native language

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Deleterious

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Dangerous

35
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Admission

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confession