Bartholomew Fair Quizzes

Bartholomew Fair Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Bartholomew Fair?
Christopher Marlowe

John Webster

William Shakespeare

Ben Jonson
2 Bartholomew Fair was written during the ___.
Elizabethan period

Jacobean period

Carolinian period

Victorian period
3 Bartholomew Fair was first performed in ___.
1614

1620

1631

1599
4 The play debuted on what is now the holiday ___.
All Saint's Day

Michaelmas

Halloween

Christmas
5 The play was first performed at the ___.
Hope Theatre

Globe Theatre

Blackfriars Theatre

Rose Theatre
6 The company to first perform the play was ___.
Lord Chamberlain's Men

Lady Elizabeth's Men

The Queen's Men

The Admiral's Men
7 The play first appeared in print in ___.
1666

1631

1625

1616
8 The first print edition of the play was a ___.
pamphlet

folio

novel

quarto
9 Bartholomew Fair is a/an ___.
tragedy

history

comedy

romance
10 Ben Jonson is credited with inventing the ___.
play-within-a-play

dumb show

city comedy

revenge tragedy
11 Bartholomew Fair takes place in ___.
Windsor

London

Bath

Manchester
12 The historical Bartholomew Fair was held at ___.
Smithfield

Northfield

Gray's Inn

Nottingham
13 Bartholomew Fair lasted in England for roughly ___.
12 centuries

4 centuries

2 centuries

7 centuries
14 Bartholomew Fair was held in ___.
April

June

August

October
15 The place where the fair was held was also home to ___.
William Shakespeare

a football tournament

brothels

public executions
16 The fair typically lasted ___.
three weeks

one week

one month

four days
17 Which of these is not an element of city comedy?
Set in London

Supernatural forces

Lower-class characters

Realistic plots
18 Who was on the English throne when Bartholomew Fair was performed?
King James I

King Charles I

King Henry VIII

Queen Elizabeth I
19 Of all his popular comedies, Bartholomew Fair is considered the playwright's most ___.
satirical play

experimental play

autobiographical

serious play
20 Which of these was not written by Ben Jonson?
Arden of Faversham

The Alchemist

Every Man in his Humour

Epiceone
21 Bartholomew Fair was originally a ___.
celebration of a holiday

religious ceremony

trading event

playhouse
22 The fair traditionally drew crowds from ___.
other countries

the English lower class

all of English society

the English upper class
23 The play covers a narrative timeline of ___.
one day

one week

three days

two hours
24 The tone of the play is ___.
satirical

solemn

bleak

apathetic
25 The play is written in ___.
3 acts

5 acts

4 acts

12 scenes

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