Christopher Marlowe's Poems Study Guide

1. Marlowe attended which college at Cambridge?

• Queens'
• Christ's
• Corpus Christi
• Clare

2. In what kind of establishment was Marlowe killed?

• A house
• A castle
• A tavern
• An inn

3. About what does the old bawd instruct Corinna?

• How to get money from her lover
• How to keep her lover
• How to get a different lover
• How to avoid a lover

4. The lover's mistress in Ovid's Elegies is named?

• Phoebe
• Lais
• Corinna
• Minerva

5. Why is Corinna sad in Elegy 14, Book One?

• Her lover is leaving her
• She has been struck by her lover
• Her hair has fallen out
• Her husband has discovered her infidelity

6. Hero and Leander are separated by what body of water?

• The Suez Canal
• The Straits of Gibraltar
• The Hellespont
• The English Channel

7. Where was Marlowe born?

• London
• Shoreditch
• Canterbury
• Deptford

8. With what other writer did Marlowe live for a time?

• Thomas Kyd
• William Shakespeare
• Ben Johnson
• Edmund Meredith

9. What was Marlowe's final degree from Cambridge?

• Doctor of Divinty
• B.A.
• M.A.
• Ph.D.

10. For what charges was Marlowe summoned to the Star Chamber?

• Espionage and sacrilege
• Alchemy and counterfeiting
• Lewdness and drunkeness
• Blasphemy and atheism