Thomas More

Question 1

Whom did Thomas More serve?

Answer 1

Henry VIII

Question 2

What was the major work of Thomas More?

Answer 2

Utopia

Question 3

When was Utopia written?

Answer 3

1513

Question 4

In which language was Utopia written?

Answer 4

Latin

Question 5

Who was the friend of Thomas More?

Answer 5

Erasmus

Question 6

What was the theology of Humanists?

Answer 6

Humanists emphasised the dignity of man and the power of reason while remaining deeply committed to Christianity.

They broke the hold of the strict religious orthodoxy.

Question 7

What did Humanists oppose?

Answer 7

Feudalism

Society dominated by money

Question 8

Who translated More’s Utopia to English in which year?

Answer 8

Ralph Robinson in the year 1551

Question 9

What is the full title of Utopia?

Answer 9

The discourses of Raphael Hythlodaye

Question 10

Utopia is a satire on ______.

Answer 10

Social and Political evils of the Middle Age.

Question 11

Utopia is divided into _____

Answer 11

2 parts; Book 1 and Book 2

First book written last; Second book written first.

Question 12

The thought of Utopia is based on ______

Answer 12

Plato’s Republic

Question 13

What is Utopia?

Answer 13

Claims to be an ideal human society

An island

resembles humanist thinking of Erasmus

Question 14

Who are the narrators of Utopia?

Answer 14

Thomas More and Raphael Hythloday

Question 15

Who are the important characters in Utopia?

Answer 15

Fictional More

Raphael Hythloday

Fictional Peter Giles

General Utopus

Question 16

What is the meaning of “Hythloday”?

Answer 16

Talker of Nonsense

Question 17

What are the characters in Utopia that have biographical history?

Answer 17

Thomas More

Peter Giles

Question 18

What did Plato state in his Republic?

Answer 18

Plato believed that Philosophers would be the true rulers of society because because they’re able to understand true goodness and justice in a way that other people cannot.

Question 19

What does Hythloday comment on?

Answer 19

The evil civil practices of England, such as the policy of capital punishment for the crime of theft.

Satirises the Kings

Question 20

What is the Policy of Utopians?

Answer 20

Utopian is a clearly superior to Europeans.

Utopian policy of common property

Question 21

Who is the founder of Utopia?

Answer 21

General Utopus

Question 22

In Utopia what does the book 1 and book 2 talk about?

Answer 22

Book 1 talks about the issues of England society and the book 2 talks about the rules in a utopian society

Question 23

There are how many city’s in Utopia?

Answer 23

54 cities

Question 24

Which is the capital and political city of Utopia?

Answer 24

Amaurot

Question 25

What is the work of people in Utopia?

Answer 25

Agriculture and other craft work

Question 26

How does Raphael Hythloday describe utopian society?

Answer 26

It is a nation based on rational thought, with communal property, great productivity, no rapacious love of gold, no real class distinctions, no poverty, little crime or immoral behaviour, religious tolerance and little inclination to war.

Question 27

What is the name of the traveller in Utopia?

Answer 27

Raphael Hythloday

Question 28

In what activities Utopians do not indulge?

Answer 28

Dicing and cards

Question 29

Who did Utopians believe in religion?

Answer 29

One supreme power

Sun moon and planetary bodies

Question 30

What characters did not correspond to biographical history events?

Answer 30

Raphael Hythloday

Question 31

Who introduced the Italian Sonnet and Blank verse into English?

Answer 31

Wyatt and Surrey