Bartholomew Fair Quizzes

Bartholomew Fair Quiz 1

1 Who wrote Bartholomew Fair?
Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe

John Webster

William Shakespeare
2 Bartholomew Fair was written during the ___.
Elizabethan period

Carolinian period

Victorian period

Jacobean period
3 Bartholomew Fair was first performed in ___.
1631

1614

1620

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

Christmas

Halloween

Michaelmas
5 The play was first performed at the ___.
Blackfriars Theatre

Hope Theatre

Rose Theatre

Globe Theatre
6 The company to first perform the play was ___.
The Queen's Men

The Admiral's Men

Lord Chamberlain's Men

Lady Elizabeth's Men
7 The play first appeared in print in ___.
1616

1625

1666

1631
8 The first print edition of the play was a ___.
folio

pamphlet

quarto

novel
9 Bartholomew Fair is a/an ___.
comedy

tragedy

romance

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

dumb show

revenge tragedy

city comedy
11 Bartholomew Fair takes place in ___.
Manchester

Windsor

London

Bath
12 The historical Bartholomew Fair was held at ___.
Northfield

Nottingham

Smithfield

Gray's Inn
13 Bartholomew Fair lasted in England for roughly ___.
12 centuries

2 centuries

7 centuries

4 centuries
14 Bartholomew Fair was held in ___.
June

October

April

August
15 The place where the fair was held was also home to ___.
public executions

brothels

a football tournament

William Shakespeare
16 The fair typically lasted ___.
four days

one month

one week

three weeks
17 Which of these is not an element of city comedy?
Realistic plots

Set in London

Lower-class characters

Supernatural forces
18 Who was on the English throne when Bartholomew Fair was performed?
King James I

King Henry VIII

Queen Elizabeth I

King Charles I
19 Of all his popular comedies, Bartholomew Fair is considered the playwright's most ___.
experimental play

serious play

satirical play

autobiographical
20 Which of these was not written by Ben Jonson?
Epiceone

The Alchemist

Arden of Faversham

Every Man in his Humour
21 Bartholomew Fair was originally a ___.
religious ceremony

trading event

playhouse

celebration of a holiday
22 The fair traditionally drew crowds from ___.
other countries

the English lower class

the English upper class

all of English society
23 The play covers a narrative timeline of ___.
one day

three days

two hours

one week
24 The tone of the play is ___.
apathetic

bleak

solemn

satirical
25 The play is written in ___.
5 acts

12 scenes

4 acts

3 acts

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