The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.

Middleton and Rowley

Beaumont and Fletcher

Middleton and Massinger

Shakespeare and Jonson
2 The play was first performed in ___.

1600

1599

1656

1622
3 The play was first published in ___.

1652

1702

1666

1610
4 The Changeling is a ___.

comedy

history

romance

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

Elizabethan

Victorian

Jacobean

Carolinian
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

tragicomic

comic

romantic

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

Ben Jonson

Francis Beaumont

Thomas Dekker

William Shakespeare
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?

The Changeling

Wit at Several Weapons

A Game at Chess

A Fair Quarrel
9 T.S. Eliot once said that Middleton was a playwright second only to ___.

Shakespeare

Brecht

Jonson

Marlowe
10 Besides The Changeling, which is Middleton's most famous play?

Women Beware Women

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Measure for Measure

A Game at Chess
11 Which of these is a typical staple of Middleton's work?

Hope

Cynicism

Disguise

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

protagonist

cohesive plot

antagonist

resolution
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

All's Well That Ends Well

Macbeth

The Revenger's Tragedy

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

Charles I

Henry VIII

James I

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

Reformation

Revival

Renaissance

Restoration
16 What is this time period also known as?

Victorian era

Modernist period

Early modern period

Medieval period
17 The most famous playwright of this time was ___.

Philip Sidney

Christopher Marlowe

Philip Henslowe

William Shakespeare
18 In addition to dramatist, William Rowley was also a/an ___.

physician

actor

courtier

lawyer
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

clowns

women

children

villains
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

collaborations

prose work

comedies

tragedies
21 Along with Middleton, Rowley also collaborated with ___.

Christopher Marlowe

John Webster

John Marston

Ben Jonson
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.

A Fair Quarrel

A Cure for a Cuckhold

Fortune by Land and Sea

All's Lost by Lust
23 Rowley likely began his career working for ___.

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

Queen Anne's Men

The Children of the Revels

The King's Men
24 In 1623, Rowley joined ___.

the King's Men

the Children of the Revels

the Queen's Men

the Admiral's Men
25 Rowley performed at which theater until his death in 1626?

Blackfriars

The Red Bull

The Rose

The Globe

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