The Roaring Girl Quizzes

The Roaring Girl Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Roaring Girl?
Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare

Thomas Middleton and John Webster

Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker

Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd
2 The Roaring Girl was likely written in or around ___.
1583

1590

1607

1625
3 The Roaring Girl is a ___.
Carolinian play

Georgian play

Jacobean play

Elizabethan play
4 The Roaring Girl is a ___.
romance

tragedy

history

comedy
5 Within its broader genre, The Roaring Girl is also what is known as a/an ___.
city comedy

dumb show

domestic tragedy

citizen play
6 Who is the titular "roaring girl"?
Moll Cutpurse

Queen Elizabeth I

Amelia Lanyer

Lucy Negro
7 The events of the play are based loosely on the biography of ___.
Samuel Pepys

Mary Frith

Anne Clifford

Ben Jonson
8 What is a "cutpurse"?
A thief

A playright

A leader

A pickpocket
9 The role of Moll Cutpurse would have originally been played by ___.
a young man

a royal

the playwright

a woman in drag
10 Who of these is NOT a major character in the play?
Sir Alexander

Puck

Sebastian

Moll Cutpurse
11 Which of these characters is a tailor?
Mistress Gallipot

Openwork

Trapdoor

Goshawk
12 What is a gallant?
A flirtatious man

A nobleman

An educated man

A knight
13 Which of these characters is considered a gallant in the play?
Trapdoor

Sir Alexander

Sebastian

Laxton
14 What does the term "roaring" connote?
Riotous

Loud

Angry

Aggressive
15 The play begins with ___.
an invocation

a prologue

Act One

a letter to the reader
16 The play was originally published in ___.
1599

1605

1620

1611
17 Who was on the English throne when The Roaring Girl was written?
Queen Elizabeth I

King James I

King Henry VIII

King Charles I
18 Thomas Dekker is known best for his play ___.
The Revenger's Tragedy

The Jew of Malta

The Duchess of Malfi

The Shoemaker's Holiday
19 Thomas Dekker worked closely with ___.
William Shakespeare

Richard Burbage

Christopher Marlowe

Philip Henslowe
20 The play was first published in which form?
Prose

Folio

Quarto

Manuscript
21 At which theater was the play originally performed?
Blackfriar's Theater

Globe Theater

Rose Theater

Fortune Theater
22 What is a virago?
A promiscuous woman

A city in England

A masculine woman

A prostitute
23 The historical Mary Frith is said to be the first woman to ___.
steal

start her own business

smoke tobacco in public

marry another woman
24 The play is written in ___.
five acts

three acts

six acts

four acts
25 Most of the characters in the play are ___.
royals

thieves

day laborers

nobles

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