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 ___.

1600

1622

1656

1599
3 The play was first published in ___.

1610

1652

1666

1702
4 The Changeling is a ___.

romance

history

tragedy

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

Carolinian

Victorian

Elizabethan

Jacobean
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

romantic

tragic

comic

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

Ben Jonson

Thomas Dekker

Francis Beaumont

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 ___.

Brecht

Shakespeare

Jonson

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

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

A Game at Chess

Measure for Measure

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

Hope

Cynicism

Irreverence

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

cohesive plot

protagonist

resolution

antagonist
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

Macbeth

The Revenger's Tragedy

The Alchemist

All's Well That Ends Well
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 ___.

Restoration

Reformation

Renaissance

Revival
16 What is this time period also known as?

Early modern period

Modernist period

Victorian era

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

Philip Sidney

Philip Henslowe

Christopher Marlowe

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

courtier

lawyer

physician

actor
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

villains

children

clowns

women
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

prose work

comedies

tragedies

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

John Marston

John Webster

Ben Jonson

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

All's Lost by Lust

Fortune by Land and Sea

A Cure for a Cuckhold

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

Queen Anne's Men

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

The Children of the Revels

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

the Children of the Revels

the Admiral's Men

the King's Men

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

The Red Bull

Blackfriars

The Rose

The Globe

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