The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.

Middleton and Rowley

Shakespeare and Jonson

Middleton and Massinger

Beaumont and Fletcher
2 The play was first performed in ___.

1600

1656

1622

1599
3 The play was first published in ___.

1652

1702

1666

1610
4 The Changeling is a ___.

tragedy

comedy

history

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

Carolinian

Jacobean

Victorian

Elizabethan
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

tragic

tragicomic

comic

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

Ben Jonson

William Shakespeare

Francis Beaumont

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

The Changeling

Wit at Several Weapons

A Fair Quarrel

A Game at Chess
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?

Measure for Measure

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Women Beware Women

A Game at Chess
11 Which of these is a typical staple of Middleton's work?

Hope

Irreverence

Cynicism

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

cohesive plot

antagonist

resolution

protagonist
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

All's Well That Ends Well

The Revenger's Tragedy

The Alchemist

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

James I

Elizabeth I

Charles I

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

Reformation

Revival

Restoration

Renaissance
16 What is this time period also known as?

Early modern period

Medieval period

Modernist period

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

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare

Philip Henslowe

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

actor

physician

courtier

lawyer
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

women

clowns

children

villains
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

collaborations

tragedies

prose work

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

John Webster

John Marston

Christopher Marlowe

Ben Jonson
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.

All's Lost by Lust

A Cure for a Cuckhold

Fortune by Land and Sea

A Fair Quarrel
23 Rowley likely began his career working for ___.

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

Queen Anne's Men

The Children of the Revels

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

the Children of the Revels

the Queen's Men

the Admiral's Men

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

The Red Bull

The Rose

Blackfriars

The Globe

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