The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.

Beaumont and Fletcher

Middleton and Rowley

Shakespeare and Jonson

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

1656

1622

1599

1600
3 The play was first published in ___.

1702

1610

1652

1666
4 The Changeling is a ___.

comedy

history

tragedy

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

Carolinian

Elizabethan

Victorian

Jacobean
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

tragic

comic

tragicomic

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?

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

Marlowe

Shakespeare

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

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Women Beware Women

Measure for Measure

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

Cynicism

Disguise

Hope

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

protagonist

resolution

cohesive plot

antagonist
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

The Alchemist

All's Well That Ends Well

The Revenger's Tragedy

Macbeth
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 ___.

Renaissance

Reformation

Revival

Restoration
16 What is this time period also known as?

Medieval period

Victorian era

Modernist period

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

Christopher Marlowe

Philip Henslowe

William Shakespeare

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

courtier

actor

physician

lawyer
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

clowns

children

women

villains
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

comedies

tragedies

prose work

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

John Webster

John Marston

Christopher Marlowe

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

A Fair Quarrel

Fortune by Land and Sea

All's Lost by Lust

A Cure for a Cuckhold
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 Children of the Revels

the King's Men

the Admiral'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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