The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.
Beaumont and Fletcher

Middleton and Massinger

Middleton and Rowley

Shakespeare and Jonson
2 The play was first performed in ___.
1622

1656

1599

1600
3 The play was first published in ___.
1610

1666

1652

1702
4 The Changeling is a ___.
comedy

romance

tragedy

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

Elizabethan

Carolinian

Victorian
6 The subplot of the play is ___.
comic

tragicomic

romantic

tragic
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

A Fair Quarrel

Wit at Several Weapons
9 T.S. Eliot once said that Middleton was a playwright second only to ___.
Jonson

Shakespeare

Brecht

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

Disguise

Irreverence

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

resolution

cohesive plot

protagonist
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?
Elizabeth I

James I

Charles I

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

Restoration

Renaissance

Reformation
16 What is this time period also known as?
Victorian era

Early modern period

Modernist period

Medieval period
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 ___.
lawyer

courtier

actor

physician
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.
children

clowns

villains

women
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.
prose work

tragedies

comedies

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

Christopher Marlowe

John Webster

John Marston
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.
Fortune by Land and Sea

A Fair Quarrel

A Cure for a Cuckhold

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

The King's Men

Queen Anne's Men

The Children of the Revels
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?
Blackfriars

The Red Bull

The Rose

The Globe

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