!) Edmund Spenser

Question 1

‘So much more…

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profitable and gratious is doctrine by ensample, then by rule’ (Letter to Raleigh)

Question 2

‘Clowdily…

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enwrapped in Allegoricall deuises’ (Letter to Raleigh)

Question 3

‘Being a continued…

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allegory or darke conceit’ (Letter from Raleigh)

Question 4

‘Fashion a…

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gentleman… in vertuous and gentle discipline’ (Letter to Raleigh)

Question 5

The opening lines of Book V’s proem asked the reader to do what?

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‘compare’ present with past

Question 6

‘For from the…

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golden age… It’s now at earst become a stonie one’ (V.proem.2)

Question 7

Spenser’s claim to a ‘stonie’ age was a reference to which classical model?

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The four ages of man found within Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Question 8

‘The world is…

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runne quite out of square’ (V.proem.1)

Question 9

‘For that which…

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all men then did virtue call/is now cald vice’ (V.proem.4)

Question 10

How is Artegall introduced in Book IV of the Faerie Queene?

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purely destructive, out of control force

Question 11

Who trains Artegall in V.i?

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Astrea

Question 12

‘to weigh both…

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right and wrong/in equall ballance’ (V.i.7)

Question 13

‘in all the skill…

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of deeming wrong and right’ (V.i.8)

Question 14

‘Talus, made of…

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yron mould/Immoueable, resistless, without end’ (V.i.12)

Question 15

‘An yron flale…

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did hould/with which he thresht out falsehood’ (V.i.12)

Question 16

‘Ouer his Bridge…

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albee he rich or poore’ (V.ii.6)

Question 17

‘She is full faire…

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and rich attired/with golden hands and siluer feete beside’ (V.ii.10)

Question 18

‘Nor powr…

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of charms which she against him wrought’ (V.ii.22)

Question 19

‘throw downe these…

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mountains hie/and make them leuell with the lowly plaine’ (V.ii.38)

Question 20

‘all things to…

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an equall to restore’ (V.ii.34)

Question 21

Which of the two brothers in Canto IV had his landholdings expanded by washed up earth?

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Amidas

Question 22

Which of the two brothers in Canto IV had the dowry of his brothers wife washed up on his shore?

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Bracidas

Question 23

Which two legal theorists described a tripartite model of justice operating alongside mercy and equity?

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Thomas Elyot and Christopher St German

Question 24

‘Many graue…

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persons that against her pled’ (V.ix.43)

Question 25

'Iustice charged her...

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with breach of the lawes' (V.x.44)

Question 26

'on the contrarie...

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part/rose many aduocates for her to plead' (V.ix.45)

Question 27

'She whose princely...

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breast touched nere/With piteous ruth' (V.ix.50)

Question 28

Artegall retained 'constant firme...

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intent/For zeale of Iustice was against [Duessa] bent' (V.ix.49)

Question 29

Equity abrogated mercy to ensure the safety of 'thine...

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own people' (V.x.3)

Question 30

When did Henry Bourbon of Navarre convert to Catholicism?

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1593

Question 31

'forbone/your owne...

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good shield in daungerous dismay' (V.xi.52)

Question 32

How many of Belge's sons are killed (in reference to the Spanish capture of Dutch provinces)?

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12/17

Question 33

In which year did the events of Philip Sidney's Dutch campaign diverge from Spenser's account?

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1585

Question 34

What did Arthur defeat in Antwerp?

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'hideous monster', metaphor for Catholicism

Question 35

'His cruell minded...

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hart/Empierced was with pittifull regard' (V.v.13)

Question 36

'She whose princely...

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breast touched nere/With piteous ruth' (V.ix.50)

Question 37

'Disarmed quight...

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of all the ornaments of knightly name' (V.v.20)

Question 38

'The crueltie of...

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womenkynd/when they have shaken off the shamefest band' (V.v.25)

Question 39

'But by record...

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of antique times... they have excelled in artes and pollicy' (III.ii.2)

Question 40

'Vnless the heauens...

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them lift to lawfull soueraintie' (V.v.25)

Question 41

'liberty of women...

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did repeale... and them restoring/to men's subjection' (V.vii.42)

Question 42

'Succour a distressed...

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Dame/whom a strong tyrant did vniustly thrall' (V.i.3)

Question 43

'Chose Artegall...

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to right her to restore' (V.i.4)

Question 44

'A steele cap...

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he did weare... an huge Polaxe did beare' (V.xii.14)

Question 45

Which two quotes suggest Irish topography in Spenser's Book V?

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'sea coast' (V.xii.4), 'craggy cliffs' (V.ix.15)

Question 46

What is Grantorto decribed as?

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'cursed felon' (V.xii.20)

Question 47

'No laws, no penalties...

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can restrain' (A View of the Present State of Irelande)

Question 48

'Right in the flanke...

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him strooke with deadly dreary' (V.xii.20)

Question 49

'To reforme...

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that ragged commonweal' (V.xii.26)

Question 50

'called was...

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away... his course of Iustice he was forst to stay' (V.xii.27)