Christopher Marlowe’s Poems Quizzes

Christopher Marlowe's Poems Quiz 1

By Elizabeth Hayes Smith · Edited by Soman Chainani · Last reviewed December 28, 2008

1 Marlowe attended which college at Cambridge?

Christ's

Clare

Corpus Christi

Queens'
2 In what kind of establishment was Marlowe killed?

A castle

A house

An inn

A tavern
3 About what does the old bawd instruct Corinna?

How to keep her lover

How to get money from 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

Corinna

Lais

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

Her lover is leaving her

Her husband has discovered her infidelity

Her hair has fallen out

She has been struck by her lover
6 Hero and Leander are separated by what body of water?

The English Channel

The Hellespont

The Straits of Gibraltar

The Suez Canal
7 Where was Marlowe born?

Deptford

London

Canterbury

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

William Shakespeare

Edmund Meredith

Ben Johnson

Thomas Kyd
9 What was Marlowe's final degree from Cambridge?

Doctor of Divinty

Ph.D.

M.A.

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

Alchemy and counterfeiting

Blasphemy and atheism

Espionage and sacrilege

Lewdness and drunkeness
11 Who is named as the killer of Marlowe?

Robert Poley

Sir Thomas Walsingham

Nicholas Skeres

Ingram Friser
12 Hero and Leander is based on what type of myth?

Babylonian

Greek

Egyptian

Roman
13 What is the name of the sea-god in Hero and Leander?

Aphrodite

Neptune

Vulcan

Zeus
14 Before what court was Marlowe summoned a few days before his death?

Queen Elizabeth's court

The Court of Assizes

The Privy Council

The Star Chamber
15 What kind of poems make up Ovid's Amores?

Couplets

Epics

Elegies

Sonnets
16 In what language was On the Death of Sir Roger Manwood written?

English

French

Latin

Italian
17 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is what type of poem?

Lament

Elegy

Pastoral

Epic
18 Lucan's book begins with talk of what?

Love

War

Death

Fear
19 Of what profession was Roger Manwood?

Judge

Bishop

Lawyer

Playwright
20 Lucan was a poet of what Empire?

Persian

Egyptian

Roman

Greek
21 Lucan wrote during which emperor's reign?

Theodoric's

Rameses II's

Nero's

Justinian's
22 Why can't the lover and Corinna be married?

The lover's parents will not allow it

The lover is already married

Corinna is engaged to another

Corinna is already married
23 What does Nape do for the lover?

Carries a message

Spies on Corinna

Keeps rivals away

Writes poetry
24 The name Corinna is a possible pun on a Greek word meaning?

Lover

Woman

Girl

Mistress
25 What does the lover say will last forever?

His love for Corinna

Corinna's devotion to her husband

The Roman Empire

Poetry

How does the author allude to Marlowe and Raleigh?

I'm sorry, what text are you referring to?

Asked by Ahmed H #1066121

Answered by jill d #170087 on 10/26/2020 8:10 PM

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In the first stanza, what does the Shepherd promise his love?

Title of poem, please?

Asked by Tatumn A #924401

Answered by jill d #170087 on 10/28/2019 12:38 AM

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the passionate shepherd is akind of feudal lodes not a shepherd ? how did he now ?

The third, fourth, and fifth stanzas are a kind of list of the "delights", mostly sartorial, that the Shepherd will make for his lady love. Here it becomes clearer that the "Shepherd" is really none of the same; indeed, he is more like a feudal...

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