Edward II Quizzes

Edward II Quiz 1

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

Queen Isabella

Edward I

Edward III
2 Gaveston's vision of court includes all the following except
music

poetry

sylvan nymphs

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

he is gay

he is old

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

Mortimer Senior

Mortimer

Lancaster
5 Edward makes Gaveston
Earl of Cornwall

Earl of Gloucester

Lord Chamberlain

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

Bishop of Coventry

Mortimer

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

to kill him

to tolerate him

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

Lancaster

Pembroke

Kent
9 Who wants to seduce the Queen?
Lancaster

Warwick

Mortimer

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

Archbishop

Kent

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

Mortimer

Warwick

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

Mortimer

Lancaster

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

A play

A tournament

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

Minion

Beast

Devil
15 Whom is the Niece supposed to marry?
Pembroke

Spencer

Mortimer

Gaveston
16 Baldock is described as a/an
soldier

minister

poet

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

has come to accept Gaveston

is clearly sleeping with Mortimer

despises her husband
18 The Queen's brother is the King of
Scotland

Portugal

Spain

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

Their devices

Their scabbards

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

A snake

A flying fish

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

Religious

Foreign

Cultural
22 Who wounds Gaveston with his sword?
Warwick

Lancaster

Pembroke

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

Lancaster

Mortimer Senior

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

the Church wanes in power

foreign powers make advances

the northern borders curse Edward and Gaveston's names

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