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by Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe's Poems Quiz 1

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

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