All’s Well That Ends Well Quizzes

All's Well That Ends Well Quiz 1

1 Who wrote All's Well That Ends Well?
Christopher Marlowe

John Webster

Ben Jonson

William Shakespeare
2 All's Well That Ends Well is also a/an ___.
aphorism

famous speech

biblical quote

song
3 The play is considered a ___.
tragedy

romance

history

comedy
4 The play is often also called a ___.
tragicomedy

Jacobean play

city comedy

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

Germany and Austria

Italy and Spain

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

1585

1600

1622
7 Which is true about the play?
There is no recorded performance until the 18th century.

It was first performed in 1608.

It was dedicated to King James I.

It is Shakespeare's most famous.
8 Shakespeare's source material for the play was likely ___.
Ovid

Boccaccio

Tamburlaine

The Bible
9 The play was originally published in ___.
1600

1623

1609

1616
10 The play originally appeared in which form?
Pamphlet

Manuscript

Folio

Quarto
11 All's Well That Ends Well typically ranks among Shakespeare's ___.
most controversial plays

most gruesome plays

best plays

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

Jean Howard

Frank S. Boas

Stephen Greenblatt
13 Which city is featured in the play?
Paris

London

Venice

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

Verona

Nice

Windsor
15 Shakespeare would have likely found his source material in a text by ___.
Christopher Marlowe

William Painter

Thomas Thorpe

Thomas Nashe
16 The play was published during a literary period known as the ___.
Renaissance

Medieval period

Contemporary period

Victorian era
17 Another name for this literary period is ___.
pre-modern

modern

early modern

turn of the century
18 Most of Shakespeare's plays were performed at the ___.
Rose Theatre

Whitefriars Theatre

Blackfriars Theatre

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

medieval period

Antebellum period

contemporary period
20 The play is written in ___.
Latin

Modern English

Middle English

Old English
21 Who is the narrator of the play?
Bertram.

There is no narrator.

Helena.

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

five acts

four acts

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

Rousillon

Paris

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

The King

Bertram's mother

Helena's father
25 What is a "problem play"?
A play that nobody likes

A play that does not fit discreetly into one genre

A play with too many twists

A play with a major conflict

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