The Roaring Girl Quizzes

The Roaring Girl Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Roaring Girl?
Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd

Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare

Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker

Thomas Middleton and John Webster
2 The Roaring Girl was likely written in or around ___.
1590

1625

1583

1607
3 The Roaring Girl is a ___.
Jacobean play

Carolinian play

Elizabethan play

Georgian play
4 The Roaring Girl is a ___.
history

tragedy

comedy

romance
5 Within its broader genre, The Roaring Girl is also what is known as a/an ___.
dumb show

citizen play

city comedy

domestic tragedy
6 Who is the titular "roaring girl"?
Amelia Lanyer

Lucy Negro

Moll Cutpurse

Queen Elizabeth I
7 The events of the play are based loosely on the biography of ___.
Samuel Pepys

Ben Jonson

Mary Frith

Anne Clifford
8 What is a "cutpurse"?
A thief

A pickpocket

A playright

A leader
9 The role of Moll Cutpurse would have originally been played by ___.
a royal

a woman in drag

the playwright

a young man
10 Who of these is NOT a major character in the play?
Moll Cutpurse

Sebastian

Puck

Sir Alexander
11 Which of these characters is a tailor?
Mistress Gallipot

Goshawk

Trapdoor

Openwork
12 What is a gallant?
A knight

A flirtatious man

An educated man

A nobleman
13 Which of these characters is considered a gallant in the play?
Sebastian

Sir Alexander

Laxton

Trapdoor
14 What does the term "roaring" connote?
Angry

Riotous

Loud

Aggressive
15 The play begins with ___.
an invocation

a prologue

a letter to the reader

Act One
16 The play was originally published in ___.
1605

1620

1611

1599
17 Who was on the English throne when The Roaring Girl was written?
King Henry VIII

King James I

Queen Elizabeth I

King Charles I
18 Thomas Dekker is known best for his play ___.
The Jew of Malta

The Duchess of Malfi

The Shoemaker's Holiday

The Revenger's Tragedy
19 Thomas Dekker worked closely with ___.
Philip Henslowe

Richard Burbage

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare
20 The play was first published in which form?
Prose

Folio

Manuscript

Quarto
21 At which theater was the play originally performed?
Globe Theater

Fortune Theater

Blackfriar's Theater

Rose Theater
22 What is a virago?
A promiscuous woman

A prostitute

A masculine woman

A city in England
23 The historical Mary Frith is said to be the first woman to ___.
smoke tobacco in public

marry another woman

start her own business

steal
24 The play is written in ___.
three acts

six acts

five acts

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

royals

day laborers

thieves

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