The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.

Beaumont and Fletcher

Middleton and Rowley

Shakespeare and Jonson

Middleton and Massinger
2 The play was first performed in ___.

1622

1599

1656

1600
3 The play was first published in ___.

1652

1702

1666

1610
4 The Changeling is a ___.

comedy

romance

tragedy

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

Jacobean

Carolinian

Elizabethan

Victorian
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

tragicomic

comic

tragic

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

Thomas Dekker

Francis Beaumont

Ben Jonson

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

A Fair Quarrel

A Game at Chess

Wit at Several Weapons

The Changeling
9 T.S. Eliot once said that Middleton was a playwright second only to ___.

Marlowe

Brecht

Jonson

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

Measure for Measure

A Game at Chess

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Women Beware Women
11 Which of these is a typical staple of Middleton's work?

Disguise

Hope

Cynicism

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

protagonist

cohesive plot

resolution

antagonist
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

The Alchemist

The Revenger's Tragedy

Macbeth

All's Well That Ends Well
14 Who was on the English throne at the time The Changeling was written?

Elizabeth I

Henry VIII

Charles I

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

Revival

Reformation

Renaissance

Restoration
16 What is this time period also known as?

Early modern period

Modernist period

Victorian era

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

Philip Henslowe

Philip Sidney

Christopher Marlowe

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

courtier

actor

lawyer

physician
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

women

clowns

children

villains
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

tragedies

collaborations

comedies

prose work
21 Along with Middleton, Rowley also collaborated with ___.

Christopher Marlowe

John Marston

John Webster

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

A Cure for a Cuckhold

Fortune by Land and Sea

A Fair Quarrel

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

The King's Men

The Children of the Revels

Queen Anne's Men

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

the King's Men

the Admiral's Men

the Children of the Revels

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

The Red Bull

The Globe

Blackfriars

The Rose

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