17th+Century+Scavenger+Hunt+Questions

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 * Scavenger Hunt: 17th Century History Questions**:

1. Name three things that Johannes Kepler discovered. 2. Where have you noticed most of the discoveries and changes are originating from? 3. What seventeenth century ideas have endured to the present? 4. Why was King James I so disliked? 5. What was ironic about a widow’s role in a seventeenth century society?

17th Century British Poetry- Scavenger Hunt

1. Who was considered to be the most influential metaphysical poet of the 17th Century?

2. How is Edmund Spenser's sonnet style different from that of William Shakespeare?

3. Why do some people criticize the metaphysical poets?

4. In John Donne's "Holy Sonnet X," what is the meaningof the last two lines? ("And death...shalt die.")

5. What are some aspects of Plato's Theory of Forms? none

//17th Century Non-Poetry- Scavenger Hunt Questions//

1. What was the most famous sort of play in the 17th century?

2. Name three famous playwrights from this time period.

3. Name five famous revenge tragedies.

4. Name three themes that novels of this age revolved around.

5. Who wrote "Milton in America"?

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