The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.

Middleton and Massinger

Shakespeare and Jonson

Middleton and Rowley

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

1622

1599

1600

1656
3 The play was first published in ___.

1702

1652

1666

1610
4 The Changeling is a ___.

tragedy

comedy

romance

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

Carolinian

Elizabethan

Jacobean

Victorian
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

comic

romantic

tragicomic

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

Francis Beaumont

Thomas Dekker

Ben Jonson

William Shakespeare
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?

A Game at Chess

The Changeling

Wit at Several Weapons

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

Jonson

Brecht

Shakespeare

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

Women Beware Women

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

A Game at Chess

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

Disguise

Hope

Cynicism

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

resolution

protagonist

antagonist

cohesive plot
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

All's Well That Ends Well

The Alchemist

Macbeth

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

Elizabeth I

Charles I

Henry VIII

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

Reformation

Revival

Renaissance

Restoration
16 What is this time period also known as?

Victorian era

Early modern period

Medieval period

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

Philip Henslowe

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

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

actor

physician

lawyer

courtier
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

women

children

villains

clowns
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

tragedies

prose work

comedies

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

Ben Jonson

John Marston

John Webster

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

A Cure for a Cuckhold

A Fair Quarrel

Fortune by Land and Sea

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

The King's Men

Queen Anne's Men

The Children of the Revels

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

the Queen's Men

the King's Men

the Admiral's Men

the Children of the Revels
25 Rowley performed at which theater until his death in 1626?

The Rose

Blackfriars

The Globe

The Red Bull

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