Edward II Quizzes

Edward II Quiz 1

1 Who has died at the beginning of the play?
Gaveston

Queen Isabella

Edward III

Edward I
2 Gaveston's vision of court includes all the following except
lithe young women

sylvan nymphs

poetry

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

he is old

he is foreign

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

Lancaster

Mortimer

Warwick
5 Edward makes Gaveston
Lord Chamberlain

Earl of Gloucester

Earl of Cornwall

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

Bishop of Coventry

Pembroke

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

to imprison him

to exile him again

to kill him
8 Who initially plans to work with Gaveston and Edward?
Warwick

Kent

Lancaster

Pembroke
9 Who wants to seduce the Queen?
Mortimer Senior

Mortimer

Warwick

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

Kent

Isabella

Edward III
11 Whom does Edward make his chief councillor?
Mortimer

Warwick

Lancaster

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

Mortimer Senior

Lancaster

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

A tournament

A play

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

Devil

Lover

Minion
15 Whom is the Niece supposed to marry?
Mortimer

Pembroke

Spencer

Gaveston
16 Baldock is described as a/an
soldier

minister

scholar

poet
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
Portugal

Spain

Scotland

France
19 Where do Lancaster and Mortimer display their feelings about Gaveston?
Their devices

Their scabbards

In letters

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

A dog

A flying fish

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

Foreign

Artistic

Cultural
22 Who wounds Gaveston with his sword?
Lancaster

Warwick

Pembroke

Mortimer
23 Who is taken prisoner by the Scots?
The Niece

Lancaster

Spencer Senior

Mortimer Senior
24 How does Edward respond when Mortimer asks the king to pay the ransom?
He tells Mortimer to figure it out himself

He agrees to pay half

He refuses to see Mortimer at all to hear the request

He agrees to pay
25 Lancaster says all of the following are happening because of Edward's behavior except
the Church wanes in power

the northern borders curse Edward and Gaveston's names

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

foreign powers make advances

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