Christopher Marlowe’s Poems Quizzes

Christopher Marlowe's Poems Quiz 1

1 Marlowe attended which college at Cambridge?
Queens'

Clare

Christ's

Corpus Christi
2 In what kind of establishment was Marlowe killed?
A tavern

An inn

A castle

A house
3 About what does the old bawd instruct Corinna?
How to get money from her lover

How to keep her lover

How to avoid a lover

How to get a different lover
4 The lover's mistress in Ovid's Elegies is named?
Corinna

Minerva

Lais

Phoebe
5 Why is Corinna sad in Elegy 14, Book One?
She has been struck by her lover

Her lover is leaving her

Her hair has fallen out

Her husband has discovered her infidelity
6 Hero and Leander are separated by what body of water?
The Straits of Gibraltar

The Suez Canal

The Hellespont

The English Channel
7 Where was Marlowe born?
London

Deptford

Canterbury

Shoreditch
8 With what other writer did Marlowe live for a time?
William Shakespeare

Ben Johnson

Thomas Kyd

Edmund Meredith
9 What was Marlowe's final degree from Cambridge?
Doctor of Divinty

B.A.

Ph.D.

M.A.
10 For what charges was Marlowe summoned to the Star Chamber?
Blasphemy and atheism

Espionage and sacrilege

Lewdness and drunkeness

Alchemy and counterfeiting
11 Who is named as the killer of Marlowe?
Nicholas Skeres

Sir Thomas Walsingham

Ingram Friser

Robert Poley
12 Hero and Leander is based on what type of myth?
Roman

Egyptian

Babylonian

Greek
13 What is the name of the sea-god in Hero and Leander?
Vulcan

Aphrodite

Zeus

Neptune
14 Before what court was Marlowe summoned a few days before his death?
Queen Elizabeth's court

The Court of Assizes

The Star Chamber

The Privy Council
15 What kind of poems make up Ovid's Amores?
Epics

Elegies

Sonnets

Couplets
16 In what language was On the Death of Sir Roger Manwood written?
Italian

Latin

English

French
17 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is what type of poem?
Lament

Pastoral

Elegy

Epic
18 Lucan's book begins with talk of what?
War

Love

Fear

Death
19 Of what profession was Roger Manwood?
Playwright

Bishop

Judge

Lawyer
20 Lucan was a poet of what Empire?
Persian

Roman

Greek

Egyptian
21 Lucan wrote during which emperor's reign?
Rameses II's

Nero's

Justinian's

Theodoric's
22 Why can't the lover and Corinna be married?
The lover's parents will not allow it

Corinna is engaged to another

The lover is already married

Corinna is already married
23 What does Nape do for the lover?
Keeps rivals away

Writes poetry

Carries a message

Spies on Corinna
24 The name Corinna is a possible pun on a Greek word meaning?
Woman

Lover

Girl

Mistress
25 What does the lover say will last forever?
Poetry

His love for Corinna

Corinna's devotion to her husband

The Roman Empire

How does the author allude to Marlowe and Raleigh?

I'm sorry, what text are you referring to?

Asked by Ahmed H #1066121

Answered by jill d #170087 on 10/26/2020 8:10 PM

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In the first stanza, what does the Shepherd promise his love?

Title of poem, please?

Asked by Tatumn A #924401

Answered by jill d #170087 on 10/28/2019 12:38 AM

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the passionate shepherd is akind of feudal lodes not a shepherd ? how did he now ?

The third, fourth, and fifth stanzas are a kind of list of the "delights", mostly sartorial, that the Shepherd will make for his lady love. Here it becomes clearer that the "Shepherd" is really none of the same; indeed, he is more like a feudal...

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Answered by Aslan on 8/24/2019 4:08 PM

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