The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.
Beaumont and Fletcher

Middleton and Rowley

Middleton and Massinger

Shakespeare and Jonson
2 The play was first performed in ___.
1599

1600

1622

1656
3 The play was first published in ___.
1702

1610

1666

1652
4 The Changeling is a ___.
romance

history

comedy

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

Elizabethan

Victorian

Carolinian
6 The subplot of the play is ___.
tragicomic

tragic

romantic

comic
7 Along with Rowley, Middleton often collaborated with ___.
William Shakespeare

Francis Beaumont

Thomas Dekker

Ben Jonson
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?
The Changeling

A Fair Quarrel

A Game at Chess

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

Brecht

Shakespeare

Jonson
10 Besides The Changeling, which is Middleton's most famous play?
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Measure for Measure

Women Beware Women

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

Irreverence

Hope

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

protagonist

resolution

cohesive plot
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?
Macbeth

All's Well That Ends Well

The Revenger's Tragedy

The Alchemist
14 Who was on the English throne at the time The Changeling was written?
Elizabeth I

Henry VIII

Charles I

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

Revival

Restoration

Reformation
16 What is this time period also known as?
Early modern period

Medieval period

Victorian era

Modernist 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 ___.
physician

courtier

actor

lawyer
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.
villains

clowns

children

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

collaborations

comedies

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

Christopher Marlowe

John Marston

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

All's Lost by Lust

A Cure for a Cuckhold

A Fair Quarrel
23 Rowley likely began his career working for ___.
The Children of the Revels

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

Queen Anne's Men

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

the Queen's Men

the King's Men

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

The Red Bull

The Globe

Blackfriars

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