The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.
Middleton and Rowley

Middleton and Massinger

Shakespeare and Jonson

Beaumont and Fletcher
2 The play was first performed in ___.
1622

1600

1599

1656
3 The play was first published in ___.
1652

1666

1610

1702
4 The Changeling is a ___.
comedy

history

romance

tragedy
5 The Changeling was written during which era of English history?
Elizabethan

Victorian

Carolinian

Jacobean
6 The subplot of the play is ___.
comic

tragicomic

romantic

tragic
7 Along with Rowley, Middleton often collaborated with ___.
William Shakespeare

Francis Beaumont

Ben Jonson

Thomas Dekker
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?
Wit at Several Weapons

A Fair Quarrel

The Changeling

A Game at Chess
9 T.S. Eliot once said that Middleton was a playwright second only to ___.
Brecht

Marlowe

Jonson

Shakespeare
10 Besides The Changeling, which is Middleton's most famous play?
Women Beware Women

Measure for Measure

A Game at Chess

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
11 Which of these is a typical staple of Middleton's work?
Hope

Disguise

Irreverence

Cynicism
12 Middleton's plays often fail to feature a/an ___.
resolution

antagonist

cohesive plot

protagonist
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?
The Revenger's Tragedy

Macbeth

All's Well That Ends Well

The Alchemist
14 Who was on the English throne at the time The Changeling was written?
Henry VIII

Charles I

James I

Elizabeth I
15 The period of English history in which the play was produced is known as the ___.
Revival

Restoration

Renaissance

Reformation
16 What is this time period also known as?
Medieval period

Early modern period

Modernist period

Victorian era
17 The most famous playwright of this time was ___.
Christopher Marlowe

Philip Henslowe

William Shakespeare

Philip Sidney
18 In addition to dramatist, William Rowley was also a/an ___.
physician

lawyer

actor

courtier
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.
women

clowns

children

villains
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.
prose work

comedies

tragedies

collaborations
21 Along with Middleton, Rowley also collaborated with ___.
John Webster

John Marston

Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.
A Cure for a Cuckhold

Fortune by Land and Sea

All's Lost by Lust

A Fair Quarrel
23 Rowley likely began his career working for ___.
The Lord Chamberlain's Men

The King's Men

The Children of the Revels

Queen Anne's Men
24 In 1623, Rowley joined ___.
the King's Men

the Admiral's Men

the Queen's Men

the Children of the Revels
25 Rowley performed at which theater until his death in 1626?
The Red Bull

Blackfriars

The Rose

The Globe

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