The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.
Beaumont and Fletcher

Shakespeare and Jonson

Middleton and Rowley

Middleton and Massinger
2 The play was first performed in ___.
1622

1600

1656

1599
3 The play was first published in ___.
1610

1702

1666

1652
4 The Changeling is a ___.
romance

tragedy

comedy

history
5 The Changeling was written during which era of English history?
Jacobean

Carolinian

Elizabethan

Victorian
6 The subplot of the play is ___.
tragicomic

tragic

romantic

comic
7 Along with Rowley, Middleton often collaborated with ___.
Thomas Dekker

Francis Beaumont

William Shakespeare

Ben Jonson
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?
A Fair Quarrel

A Game at Chess

Wit at Several Weapons

The Changeling
9 T.S. Eliot once said that Middleton was a playwright second only to ___.
Brecht

Jonson

Marlowe

Shakespeare
10 Besides The Changeling, which is Middleton's most famous play?
A Game at Chess

Women Beware Women

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Measure for Measure
11 Which of these is a typical staple of Middleton's work?
Hope

Disguise

Irreverence

Cynicism
12 Middleton's plays often fail to feature a/an ___.
protagonist

antagonist

resolution

cohesive plot
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?
The Alchemist

Macbeth

All's Well That Ends Well

The Revenger's Tragedy
14 Who was on the English throne at the time The Changeling was written?
Charles I

Elizabeth I

James I

Henry VIII
15 The period of English history in which the play was produced is known as the ___.
Reformation

Restoration

Renaissance

Revival
16 What is this time period also known as?
Modernist period

Medieval period

Victorian era

Early modern period
17 The most famous playwright of this time was ___.
Christopher Marlowe

Philip Sidney

William Shakespeare

Philip Henslowe
18 In addition to dramatist, William Rowley was also a/an ___.
actor

lawyer

physician

courtier
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.
children

women

villains

clowns
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.
comedies

collaborations

tragedies

prose work
21 Along with Middleton, Rowley also collaborated with ___.
John Webster

Christopher Marlowe

John Marston

Ben Jonson
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.
Fortune by Land and Sea

All's Lost by Lust

A Fair Quarrel

A Cure for a Cuckhold
23 Rowley likely began his career working for ___.
The Children of the Revels

The King's Men

Queen Anne's Men

The Lord Chamberlain's Men
24 In 1623, Rowley joined ___.
the King's Men

the Children of the Revels

the Admiral's Men

the Queen's Men
25 Rowley performed at which theater until his death in 1626?
The Globe

The Rose

The Red Bull

Blackfriars

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