The Roaring Girl Quizzes

The Roaring Girl Quiz 1

1 Who wrote The Roaring Girl?
Thomas Middleton and John Webster

Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker

Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd
2 The Roaring Girl was likely written in or around ___.
1590

1625

1583

1607
3 The Roaring Girl is a ___.
Carolinian play

Georgian play

Elizabethan play

Jacobean play
4 The Roaring Girl is a ___.
tragedy

romance

history

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

citizen play

domestic tragedy

city comedy
6 Who is the titular "roaring girl"?
Moll Cutpurse

Amelia Lanyer

Queen Elizabeth I

Lucy Negro
7 The events of the play are based loosely on the biography of ___.
Ben Jonson

Anne Clifford

Samuel Pepys

Mary Frith
8 What is a "cutpurse"?
A pickpocket

A playright

A leader

A thief
9 The role of Moll Cutpurse would have originally been played by ___.
a woman in drag

a royal

a young man

the playwright
10 Who of these is NOT a major character in the play?
Puck

Sir Alexander

Sebastian

Moll Cutpurse
11 Which of these characters is a tailor?
Trapdoor

Mistress Gallipot

Openwork

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?
Sebastian

Trapdoor

Laxton

Sir Alexander
14 What does the term "roaring" connote?
Riotous

Angry

Aggressive

Loud
15 The play begins with ___.
Act One

a prologue

a letter to the reader

an invocation
16 The play was originally published in ___.
1620

1605

1599

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

King Henry VIII

King James I

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

The Duchess of Malfi

The Jew of Malta

The Shoemaker's Holiday
19 Thomas Dekker worked closely with ___.
Richard Burbage

Christopher Marlowe

Philip Henslowe

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

Folio

Prose

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

Blackfriar's Theater

Globe 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

start her own business

steal

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

six acts

three acts

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

nobles

day laborers

thieves

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