Edward II Quizzes

Edward II Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Last reviewed March 06, 2020

1 Who has died at the beginning of the play?

Edward III

Edward I

Gaveston

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

poetry

sylvan nymphs

music

lithe young women
3 The nobles do not like Gaveston mostly because

he is old

he is gay

he is not wellborn

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

Mortimer

Lancaster

Mortimer Senior

Warwick
5 Edward makes Gaveston

Lord Chamberlain

Earl of Gloucester

Earl of Cornwall

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

Bishop of Coventry

Mortimer

Lancaster

Pembroke
7 The nobles' initial plan to deal with Gaveston once he returns is

to kill him

to imprison him

to exile him again

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

Kent

Warwick

Pembroke

Lancaster
9 Who wants to seduce the Queen?

Lancaster

Mortimer Senior

Mortimer

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

Kent

Isabella

Edward III

Archbishop
11 Whom does Edward make his chief councillor?

Mortimer

Lancaster

Warwick

Kent
12 Whom does Edward send to fight the Scots?

Pembroke

Mortimer Senior

Lancaster

Mortimer
13 What event does Edward plan in his joy at Gaveston's return?

A feast

A play

A dance

A tournament
14 What word is often used to describe Gaveston?

Minion

Devil

Beast

Lover
15 Whom is the Niece supposed to marry?

Pembroke

Mortimer

Spencer

Gaveston
16 Baldock is described as a/an

poet

minister

soldier

scholar
17 At the beginning of the play, Queen Isabella

despises her husband

has come to accept Gaveston

seems to love her husband

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

Scotland

Spain

Portugal

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

Their scabbards

In poems

In letters

Their devices
20 What kind of creature is the hated Gaveston depicted as?

A flying fish

A spider

A snake

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

Religious

Cultural

Foreign

Artistic
22 Who wounds Gaveston with his sword?

Warwick

Mortimer

Lancaster

Pembroke
23 Who is taken prisoner by the Scots?

Mortimer Senior

Lancaster

The Niece

Spencer 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

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

foreign powers make advances

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

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...

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