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1. What Elizabethan author of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" died in a barroom brawl?
2. What adventure-loving writer/poet was beheaded?
3. Who or what was the subject of Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"?
4. What was an occupation of John Donne, the author of "Death, Be Not Proud"?
5. Which author, philosopher and essayist rose to the position of Lord Chancellor under King James I?
6. Which of the following was not one of the Cavalier Poets?
7. Poet John Milton composed "Paradise Lost" while under what physical handicap?
8. In what work by John Bunyan does one find Vanity Fair and Sloughs of Despond?
9. The diary of which Secretary of the Admiralty gives first-hand accounts of the plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London?
10. Who is considered by many as the chief poet and playwright of the Restoration as well as the father of modern English prose?
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