Edward II Quizzes

Edward II Quiz 1

1 Who has died at the beginning of the play?
Edward III

Edward I

Queen Isabella

Gaveston
2 Gaveston's vision of court includes all the following except
poetry

lithe young women

sylvan nymphs

music
3 The nobles do not like Gaveston mostly because
he is not wellborn

he is old

he is gay

he is foreign
4 Whom of the following is not as opposed to Edward having Gaveston?
Mortimer

Mortimer Senior

Lancaster

Warwick
5 Edward makes Gaveston
Lord Chamberlain

Earl of Gloucester

Earl of Cornwall

all of these
6 Whose property does Gaveston receive from Edward?
Lancaster

Bishop of Coventry

Pembroke

Mortimer
7 The nobles' initial plan to deal with Gaveston once he returns is
to tolerate him

to exile him again

to kill him

to imprison him
8 Who initially plans to work with Gaveston and Edward?
Lancaster

Kent

Pembroke

Warwick
9 Who wants to seduce the Queen?
Warwick

Mortimer Senior

Mortimer

Lancaster
10 Who pleads with the nobles to bring Gaveston back, but seems to have a plan to deal with him?
Kent

Edward III

Archbishop

Isabella
11 Whom does Edward make his chief councillor?
Mortimer

Warwick

Lancaster

Kent
12 Whom does Edward send to fight the Scots?
Pembroke

Mortimer Senior

Mortimer

Lancaster
13 What event does Edward plan in his joy at Gaveston's return?
A play

A feast

A tournament

A dance
14 What word is often used to describe Gaveston?
Lover

Devil

Beast

Minion
15 Whom is the Niece supposed to marry?
Gaveston

Spencer

Pembroke

Mortimer
16 Baldock is described as a/an
soldier

poet

minister

scholar
17 At the beginning of the play, Queen Isabella
seems to love her husband

despises her husband

has come to accept Gaveston

is clearly sleeping with Mortimer
18 The Queen's brother is the King of
France

Scotland

Spain

Portugal
19 Where do Lancaster and Mortimer display their feelings about Gaveston?
Their scabbards

In poems

Their devices

In letters
20 What kind of creature is the hated Gaveston depicted as?
A spider

A flying fish

A snake

A dog
21 What sort of affairs does Edward appear to neglect in his enthusiasm for Gaveston's return?
Cultural

Religious

Artistic

Foreign
22 Who wounds Gaveston with his sword?
Mortimer

Pembroke

Warwick

Lancaster
23 Who is taken prisoner by the Scots?
Lancaster

Spencer Senior

Mortimer Senior

The Niece
24 How does Edward respond when Mortimer asks the king to pay the ransom?
He agrees to pay

He tells Mortimer to figure it out himself

He agrees to pay half

He refuses to see Mortimer at all to hear the request
25 Lancaster says all of the following are happening because of Edward's behavior except
the northern borders curse Edward and Gaveston's names

people cast libels in the streets and sing anti-Edward ballads

foreign powers make advances

the Church wanes in power

What role do the Greek allusions in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II play?

In Act I, critic Sara Munson Deats, in her article on Greek mythology in the play, suggests that Isabella’s reference to herself as Circe, the sorceress who turned Odysseus’s men into swine, held him captive, and later turned the nymph Scylla into...

Asked by anchal b #1309301

Answered by jill d #170087 on 5/29/2023 9:55 AM