All’s Well That Ends Well Quizzes

All's Well That Ends Well Quiz 1

1 Who wrote All's Well That Ends Well?

John Webster

Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare
2 All's Well That Ends Well is also a/an ___.

song

biblical quote

famous speech

aphorism
3 The play is considered a ___.

history

tragedy

romance

comedy
4 The play is often also called a ___.

tragicomedy

city comedy

problem play

Jacobean play
5 The play is set in ___.

France and Italy

Italy and Spain

Spain and England

Germany and Austria
6 The play was likely written around ___.

1614

1622

1600

1585
7 Which is true about the play?

It was dedicated to King James I.

It is Shakespeare's most famous.

There is no recorded performance until the 18th century.

It was first performed in 1608.
8 Shakespeare's source material for the play was likely ___.

Ovid

The Bible

Boccaccio

Tamburlaine
9 The play was originally published in ___.

1600

1623

1616

1609
10 The play originally appeared in which form?

Folio

Quarto

Pamphlet

Manuscript
11 All's Well That Ends Well typically ranks among Shakespeare's ___.

most gruesome plays

most controversial plays

worst plays

best plays
12 Who coined the term "problem play"?

Frank S. Boas

Stephen Greenblatt

Jean Howard

Stanley Fish
13 Which city is featured in the play?

Paris

Milan

London

Venice
14 Which other city is featured in the play?

Windsor

Florence

Nice

Verona
15 Shakespeare would have likely found his source material in a text by ___.

Christopher Marlowe

Thomas Nashe

Thomas Thorpe

William Painter
16 The play was published during a literary period known as the ___.

Medieval period

Renaissance

Contemporary period

Victorian era
17 Another name for this literary period is ___.

pre-modern

turn of the century

early modern

modern
18 Most of Shakespeare's plays were performed at the ___.

Whitefriars Theatre

Blackfriars Theatre

Rose Theatre

Globe Theatre
19 The play was revived but criticized during the ___.

contemporary period

medieval period

Victorian period

Antebellum period
20 The play is written in ___.

Latin

Old English

Middle English

Modern English
21 Who is the narrator of the play?

Helena.

Bertram.

There is no narrator.

The Countess.
22 The play is written in ___.

five acts

four acts

two acts

three acts
23 In which town does the play begin?

Venice

Paris

Rome

Rousillon
24 Which of these characters is dead at the beginning of the play?

The King

Parolles

Bertram's mother

Helena's father
25 What is a "problem play"?

A play with too many twists

A play that nobody likes

A play that does not fit discreetly into one genre

A play with a major conflict

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