The Two Gentlemen of Verona Quizzes

The Two Gentlemen of Verona Quiz 1

1 The Two Gentlemen of Verona was written by ___.
John Fletcher

Christopher Marlowe

Ben Jonson

William Shakespeare
2 The play was most likely written in ___.
1608

1600

1598

1591
3 The play is a ___.
romance

history

comedy

tragedy
4 The play is set in ___.
Cornwall and Illyria

Venice and Rome

Verona and Padua

Verona and Milan
5 Who are the two gentlemen in the play's title?
Proteus and Valentine

Launce and Crab

Speed and Valentine

The Duke and Launce
6 Proteus and Valentine are ___.
brothers

best friends

cousins

lovers
7 At the beginning of the play, Valentine is leaving for ___.
Milan

Venice

Rome

Paris
8 Why does Proteus remain in Verona?
He has a job there.

He wants to join the war.

He is in love with Julia.

He cannot leave his family.
9 Proteus's father is ___.
Antonio

Crab

the Duke

Launce
10 Why is Valentine leaving Verona?
He is going to serve the Duke of Milan.

He is joining a war.

He has a lover in another city.

He wants to expand his knowledge.
11 The play was written during the ___.
Jacobean era

Victorian era

Elizabethan era

Carolinian era
12 Many believe that the play was ___.
banned from the theaters

originally written in Latin

never performed

the first Shakespeare wrote for the stage
13 The earliest suggested date of composition for the play is ___.
1554

1588

1575

1599
14 The play shares many commonalities with ___.
Romeo and Juliet

The Comedy of Errors

Hamlet

Macbeth
15 The play was first published in ___.
1590

1623

1601

1640
16 The play was first published in ___.
folio form

manuscript

pamphlet form

quarto form
17 The first mention of the play's existence was in ___.
1575

1598

1600

1612
18 The central theme of the play is ___.
love

politics

friendship

money
19 Romantic love is presented throughout the play as ___.
an uncontrollable force

a threat to homosocial bonds

a transformative power

all of these
20 Silvia's father is the Duke of ___.
Milan

Rome

Venice

Verona
21 With whom is Silvia in love?
Proteus

Valentine

Thurio

Launce
22 Crab is Launce's ___.
dog

servant

cousin

cat
23 Launce and Speed are ___.
cousins

lovers

servants

jesters
24 Who is Julia's maid?
The Nurse

Anna

Silvia

Lucetta
25 The Duke wants Silvia to marry ___.
Thurio

Proteus

Valentine

nobody