All’s Well That Ends Well Quizzes

All's Well That Ends Well Quiz 1

1 Who wrote All's Well That Ends Well?
John Webster

Ben Jonson

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe
2 All's Well That Ends Well is also a/an ___.
aphorism

biblical quote

famous speech

song
3 The play is considered a ___.
tragedy

comedy

romance

history
4 The play is often also called a ___.
Jacobean play

tragicomedy

city comedy

problem play
5 The play is set in ___.
Spain and England

France and Italy

Germany and Austria

Italy and Spain
6 The play was likely written around ___.
1614

1622

1600

1585
7 Which is true about the play?
It was dedicated to King James I.

There is no recorded performance until the 18th century.

It is Shakespeare's most famous.

It was first performed in 1608.
8 Shakespeare's source material for the play was likely ___.
The Bible

Ovid

Tamburlaine

Boccaccio
9 The play was originally published in ___.
1600

1616

1623

1609
10 The play originally appeared in which form?
Folio

Quarto

Manuscript

Pamphlet
11 All's Well That Ends Well typically ranks among Shakespeare's ___.
worst plays

most controversial plays

best plays

most gruesome plays
12 Who coined the term "problem play"?
Stanley Fish

Stephen Greenblatt

Frank S. Boas

Jean Howard
13 Which city is featured in the play?
Milan

London

Venice

Paris
14 Which other city is featured in the play?
Florence

Windsor

Verona

Nice
15 Shakespeare would have likely found his source material in a text by ___.
Thomas Nashe

Thomas Thorpe

Christopher Marlowe

William Painter
16 The play was published during a literary period known as the ___.
Renaissance

Contemporary period

Victorian era

Medieval period
17 Another name for this literary period is ___.
turn of the century

early modern

modern

pre-modern
18 Most of Shakespeare's plays were performed at the ___.
Rose Theatre

Globe Theatre

Whitefriars Theatre

Blackfriars Theatre
19 The play was revived but criticized during the ___.
Victorian period

contemporary period

medieval period

Antebellum period
20 The play is written in ___.
Old English

Modern English

Middle English

Latin
21 Who is the narrator of the play?
Bertram.

There is no narrator.

The Countess.

Helena.
22 The play is written in ___.
two acts

three acts

four acts

five acts
23 In which town does the play begin?
Rome

Rousillon

Venice

Paris
24 Which of these characters is dead at the beginning of the play?
Parolles

Bertram's mother

Helena's father

The King
25 What is a "problem play"?
A play with a major conflict

A play that nobody likes

A play that does not fit discreetly into one genre

A play with too many twists

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