The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.
Beaumont and Fletcher

Shakespeare and Jonson

Middleton and Rowley

Middleton and Massinger
2 The play was first performed in ___.
1599

1600

1656

1622
3 The play was first published in ___.
1702

1652

1666

1610
4 The Changeling is a ___.
romance

history

comedy

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

Carolinian

Elizabethan

Jacobean
6 The subplot of the play is ___.
tragicomic

comic

romantic

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

William Shakespeare

Ben Jonson

Thomas Dekker
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?
A Fair Quarrel

Wit at Several Weapons

A Game at Chess

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

Shakespeare

Jonson

Brecht
10 Besides The Changeling, which is Middleton's most famous play?
Measure for Measure

Women Beware Women

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

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

Cynicism

Disguise

Hope
12 Middleton's plays often fail to feature a/an ___.
cohesive plot

antagonist

protagonist

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

Macbeth

The Alchemist

All's Well That Ends Well
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

Reformation

Restoration

Renaissance
16 What is this time period also known as?
Modernist period

Medieval period

Victorian era

Early modern period
17 The most famous playwright of this time was ___.
Philip Sidney

Philip Henslowe

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe
18 In addition to dramatist, William Rowley was also a/an ___.
courtier

lawyer

physician

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

villains

children

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

comedies

collaborations

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

John Marston

Christopher Marlowe

Ben Jonson
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.
All's Lost by Lust

Fortune by Land and Sea

A Cure for a Cuckhold

A Fair Quarrel
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 Admiral's Men

the Queen's Men

the Children of the Revels

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

The Rose

Blackfriars

The Red Bull

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