A Game at Chess Quizzes

A Game at Chess Quiz 1

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1 A Game at Chess was written by

Ben Jonson

Thomas Middleton

Francis Beaumont

Thomas Dekker
2 The play was originally performed in

1640

1589

1624

1600
3 The genre of the play is

history

tragedy

romance

comedy
4 The play is also considered a/an

tragicomedy

allegory

city comedy

masque
5 The play was first performed by

The Children of the Revels

The Queen's Men

The Admiral's Men

The King's Men
6 The play was originally performed in the

Blackfriars Theatre

Globe Theatre

Rose Theatre

Whitefriars Theatre
7 The period in which the play was performed is known as the

Carolinian period

Elizabethan period

Victorian period

Jacobean period
8 Critics often describe Thomas Middleton as

devout

untalented

prolific

controversial
9 In which of these genres did Middleton not write?

comedy

prose romance

tragedy

poetry
10 Middleton's father was a

lawyer

farmer

bricklayer

physician
11 Where did Middleton attend university?

St. Andrew's

He did not attend university

Cambridge

Oxford
12 When did Middleton graduate?

He never graduated

1600

1605

1610
13 Middleton was often critical of the practice of

religion

medicine

law

marriage
14 Middleton began his theatrical career

owning a theater company

writing for the Admiral's Men

acting in plays

serving as a stagehand
15 In terms of contracts, Middleton was a/an

dramatist for the Globe

employee of the King's Men

free agent

collaborator only
16 Middleton was close friends with

Christopher Marlowe

Thomas Dekker

William Shakespeare

Ben Jonson
17 The controversy surrounding Middleton's early career was called

The Ten Years' Battle

The War of the Roses

The Oxford Conflict

The War of the Theatres
18 With whom did Middleton share a rivalry?

Francis Beaumont

Philip Massinger

Thomas Dekker

Ben Jonson
19 Which of these happened in 1603?

The theaters were closed due to plague

Middleton married

James I assumed the throne

all of these
20 Middleton's collaboration with Thomas Dekker was

The Roaring Girl

The Changeling

The Shoemaker's Holiday

The Revenger's Tragedy
21 Middleton's revenge tragedy is called

Hamlet

The Duchess of Malfi

The Revenger's Tragedy

The Spanish Tragedy
22 Middleton also collaborated with

Elizabeth Cary

John Webster

William Rowley

John Marston
23 Which of these did Middleton write?

All's Well that Ends Well

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Tamburlaine the Great

The Alchemist
24 A Game at Chess was banned from the theater after

nine days

three years

two days

four months
25 The setting of the play is

a luxurious estate

England

Spain

a chess board

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