The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.

Middleton and Rowley

Beaumont and Fletcher

Shakespeare and Jonson

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

1600

1622

1599

1656
3 The play was first published in ___.

1610

1652

1666

1702
4 The Changeling is a ___.

tragedy

history

romance

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

Victorian

Elizabethan

Carolinian

Jacobean
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

comic

tragicomic

tragic

romantic
7 Along with Rowley, Middleton often collaborated with ___.

Ben Jonson

Francis Beaumont

William Shakespeare

Thomas Dekker
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?

The Changeling

A Fair Quarrel

A Game at Chess

Wit at Several Weapons
9 T.S. Eliot once said that Middleton was a playwright second only to ___.

Shakespeare

Brecht

Jonson

Marlowe
10 Besides The Changeling, which is Middleton's most famous play?

A Game at Chess

Women Beware Women

Measure for Measure

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
11 Which of these is a typical staple of Middleton's work?

Hope

Cynicism

Disguise

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

protagonist

cohesive plot

antagonist

resolution
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

Macbeth

All's Well That Ends Well

The Revenger's Tragedy

The Alchemist
14 Who was on the English throne at the time The Changeling was written?

James I

Elizabeth I

Henry VIII

Charles I
15 The period of English history in which the play was produced is known as the ___.

Reformation

Restoration

Revival

Renaissance
16 What is this time period also known as?

Medieval period

Modernist period

Victorian era

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

Philip Sidney

William Shakespeare

Philip Henslowe

Christopher Marlowe
18 In addition to dramatist, William Rowley was also a/an ___.

courtier

actor

lawyer

physician
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

children

women

clowns

villains
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

comedies

prose work

collaborations

tragedies
21 Along with Middleton, Rowley also collaborated with ___.

John Marston

John Webster

Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.

Fortune by Land and Sea

A Fair Quarrel

A Cure for a Cuckhold

All's Lost by Lust
23 Rowley likely began his career working for ___.

The Children of the Revels

Queen Anne's Men

The King's Men

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

the Queen's Men

the Children of the Revels

the Admiral's Men

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

The Rose

Blackfriars

The Globe

The Red Bull

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