Quiz: Utopia

All 30 questions. A perfect score earns the gold medal; 80% earns silver.

1. 1. Whom does Raphael name, besides the nobility and gentry, among the enclosing landlords?

   The Flemish weavers The king’s judges The abbots The London merchants
2. 2. How many hours a day do Utopians work?

   Eight Ten Six Four
3. 3. How did the Utopians react to the Anemolian ambassadors’ gold and jewels?

   They refused to let the ambassadors land until they had put off their finery They took the ambassadors for slaves and honoured their plain servants They were dazzled by the display and gave the ambassadors great honours They seized the gold and jewels for their treasury to pay foreign mercenaries
4. 4. What does the Fool propose to do with the poor who cannot work?

   Set them to work rowing in the king’s ships of war Give them licences to beg at the doors of churches and abbeys Send them to monasteries, the men as lay-brothers and the women as nuns Ship them to the New World to labour in the Spanish colonies across the sea
5. 5. What do the Utopians make from gold and silver?

   Coins for internal trade Chamber-pots and slaves’ chains Crowns and robes for their chief magistrates Vessels for temple worship
6. 6. What does Raphael conclude must happen before there can be a just distribution of things?

   Property must be taken away Laws must limit how much land each man may hold Kings must become philosophers Enclosure must be forbidden by statute
7. 7. How did Utopia become an island?

   It was always an island, found by Greek sailors Its conqueror Utopus had a channel dug to cut it off The sea rose and flooded the isthmus An earthquake separated it from the mainland
8. 8. Who are the Zapolets?

   The original inhabitants of the island before Utopus Mercenaries the Utopians hire for their wars Utopia’s closest allies, who ask it to send them magistrates A sect of Utopian ascetics who live apart in the hills
9. 9. What happens to Utopian houses every ten years?

   They are pulled down and rebuilt They are inherited by the eldest son Households swap houses by lot They are sold at public auction
10. 10. Why was More in Flanders when he met Raphael Hythloday?

    He was studying Greek at Louvain He was Henry VIII’s envoy to Charles, Prince of Castile He was fleeing the sweating sickness then raging in London He was buying rare Greek books for the king’s own library
11. 11. How does Cardinal Morton respond to Raphael’s proposal?

    He orders the lawyer to answer it the next day He rejects it as dangerous to the peace and safety of the whole nation He proposes trying it on reprieved thieves, and on vagabonds too He refers it to Parliament
12. 12. How do the Polylerits punish theft?

    A heavy fine paid to the prince, with imprisonment if it goes unpaid Restitution to the owner and labour on public works, not prison Branding on the forehead and perpetual banishment from the country Death for a second offence, after a public whipping for the first
13. 13. How did Raphael win the favour of the seafaring peoples he met?

    By teaching them to build ships with round keels By showing them the magnetic compass By curing their sick with medicines brought from Europe By giving them firearms and showing them gunpowder
14. 14. What did the lawyer at Cardinal Morton’s table praise?

    The severe justice that hanged thieves twenty to a gibbet The mild treatment of thieves among the Polylerits of Persia The use of sanctuary to protect debtors The king’s new laws against enclosure
15. 15. What does the “pious divine” in the letter hope to do?

    Go to Utopia as its bishop, sent by the Pope Have the book condemned as heretical Translate the book into English Found a monastery on the Utopian model in England
16. 16. What do the Utopians do with natives who refuse to live under their laws in a new colony?

    Leave them alone and settle somewhere else Pay them for the land Drive them out of the land, by force if they resist Make them all slaves
17. 17. Why, according to Raphael, does no Utopian take more than he needs from the storehouses?

    He is sure of always being supplied, and the laws leave no room for pride The magistrates weigh and record everything taken, and punish any excess Anyone found taking more than his share is condemned to slavery Goods are rationed by tickets issued to each household by the magistrates
18. 18. In the letter to Giles, what detail does More’s pupil John Clement dispute?

    The year in which Raphael first reached Utopia by sea The width of the bridge at Amaurot The number of cities on the island of Utopia The length of the Utopian working day
19. 19. What does Raphael call all governments other than Utopia’s?

    A tyranny of the many over the few A conspiracy of the rich A league of princes A family of nations
20. 20. How long does the Utopian Prince hold office?

    For one year, like the other magistrates Until his eldest son comes of age and can succeed him For life, unless suspected of aiming at tyranny For ten years
21. 21. Which group does Raphael not name among the idle of other nations?

    Ploughmen Noblemen and their retainers Priests and religious men Sturdy beggars
22. 22. What oath does the Macarians’ king take on the day he begins to reign?

    Never to revive laws abrogated by disuse Never to keep more than a thousand pounds of gold in his treasury Never to rule more than one kingdom Never to make war without the consent of the people and the senate
23. 23. Which saying of Plato does the character More use to urge Raphael into royal service?

    That the unexamined life is not worth living That friends have all things in common That states will be happy when kings are philosophers That justice is the interest of the stronger
24. 24. Who are not among the slaves of Utopia?

    The children of slaves Utopians convicted of crimes Foreigners condemned to death abroad and bought by Utopian merchants Poor foreigners who come voluntarily to serve
25. 25. What does More say that he, Giles and Raphael all forgot to settle?

    How Raphael left the island Where in the New World Utopia lies What language the Utopians speak Whether the Utopians were Christians
26. 26. Why was the zealous Christian convert banished from Utopia?

    For attacking a priest For inciting the people to sedition, not for his faith For refusing to worship Mithras with the others For converting to Christianity
27. 27. Which bodily pleasure do the Utopians rank highest?

    Eating and drinking Hunting Music Health
28. 28. According to Giles, how did Raphael Hythloday reach the New World?

    He sailed with Vespucci and stayed behind on the last voyage He was shipwrecked on a Spanish treasure fleet He was sent by the King of Portugal to found a trading colony in the Indies He crossed from Asia by land with a caravan of Persian merchants
29. 29. How is farm work organised in Utopia?

    A hereditary peasantry farms the land for the cities Slaves do all the farming Each city hires farm labourers from abroad for the harvest season Townspeople take turns living on farms, usually for two years
30. 30. What cause of theft does Raphael call “more peculiar to England”?

    The high taxes raised for the wars with France and Scotland The standing army of soldiers kept idle in time of peace The closing of the monasteries Sheep pasture, which turns people off the land