Christopher Marlowe’s Poems Quizzes

Christopher Marlowe's Poems Quiz 1

1 Marlowe attended which college at Cambridge?
Corpus Christi

Queens'

Clare

Christ's
2 In what kind of establishment was Marlowe killed?
A house

A castle

An inn

A tavern
3 About what does the old bawd instruct Corinna?
How to get a different lover

How to keep her lover

How to avoid a lover

How to get money from her lover
4 The lover's mistress in Ovid's Elegies is named?
Minerva

Corinna

Phoebe

Lais
5 Why is Corinna sad in Elegy 14, Book One?
Her lover is leaving her

She has been struck by her lover

Her husband has discovered her infidelity

Her hair has fallen out
6 Hero and Leander are separated by what body of water?
The Hellespont

The Suez Canal

The Straits of Gibraltar

The English Channel
7 Where was Marlowe born?
Shoreditch

London

Canterbury

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

Thomas Kyd

Edmund Meredith

Ben Johnson
9 What was Marlowe's final degree from Cambridge?
B.A.

Doctor of Divinty

Ph.D.

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

Alchemy and counterfeiting

Blasphemy and atheism

Lewdness and drunkeness
11 Who is named as the killer of Marlowe?
Robert Poley

Ingram Friser

Sir Thomas Walsingham

Nicholas Skeres
12 Hero and Leander is based on what type of myth?
Egyptian

Babylonian

Roman

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

Zeus

Vulcan

Aphrodite
14 Before what court was Marlowe summoned a few days before his death?
The Privy Council

Queen Elizabeth's court

The Court of Assizes

The Star Chamber
15 What kind of poems make up Ovid's Amores?
Epics

Couplets

Sonnets

Elegies
16 In what language was On the Death of Sir Roger Manwood written?
Latin

French

Italian

English
17 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is what type of poem?
Pastoral

Epic

Elegy

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

Fear

Love

Death
19 Of what profession was Roger Manwood?
Judge

Lawyer

Playwright

Bishop
20 Lucan was a poet of what Empire?
Roman

Greek

Egyptian

Persian
21 Lucan wrote during which emperor's reign?
Justinian's

Nero's

Rameses II's

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

Corinna is already married

The lover is already married

Corinna is engaged to another
23 What does Nape do for the lover?
Spies on Corinna

Carries a message

Writes poetry

Keeps rivals away
24 The name Corinna is a possible pun on a Greek word meaning?
Woman

Mistress

Girl

Lover
25 What does the lover say will last forever?
His love for Corinna

Corinna's devotion to her husband

Poetry

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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