The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.

Shakespeare and Jonson

Beaumont and Fletcher

Middleton and Massinger

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

1656

1600

1599

1622
3 The play was first published in ___.

1666

1610

1702

1652
4 The Changeling is a ___.

tragedy

romance

history

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

Carolinian

Victorian

Jacobean

Elizabethan
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

comic

romantic

tragicomic

tragic
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?

The Changeling

A Game at Chess

Wit at Several Weapons

A Fair Quarrel
9 T.S. Eliot once said that Middleton was a playwright second only to ___.

Shakespeare

Marlowe

Brecht

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

A Game at Chess

Measure for Measure

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Women Beware Women
11 Which of these is a typical staple of Middleton's work?

Irreverence

Disguise

Cynicism

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

protagonist

cohesive plot

antagonist

resolution
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

The Alchemist

All's Well That Ends Well

Macbeth

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

Henry VIII

Elizabeth I

Charles I

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

Renaissance

Revival

Reformation

Restoration
16 What is this time period also known as?

Medieval period

Early modern period

Modernist period

Victorian era
17 The most famous playwright of this time was ___.

Philip Sidney

Philip Henslowe

William Shakespeare

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

physician

actor

courtier

lawyer
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

women

clowns

villains

children
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

collaborations

comedies

prose work

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

Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe

John Webster

John Marston
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.

A Cure for a Cuckhold

Fortune by Land and Sea

A Fair Quarrel

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

Queen Anne's Men

The Children of the Revels

The King's Men

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

the Queen's Men

the Children of the Revels

the King's Men

the Admiral'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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