The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.

Beaumont and Fletcher

Middleton and Massinger

Shakespeare and Jonson

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

1656

1599

1622

1600
3 The play was first published in ___.

1652

1666

1702

1610
4 The Changeling is a ___.

comedy

history

tragedy

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

Victorian

Jacobean

Carolinian

Elizabethan
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

comic

romantic

tragic

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

Francis Beaumont

Thomas Dekker

William Shakespeare

Ben Jonson
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?

The Changeling

A Fair Quarrel

A Game at Chess

Wit at Several Weapons
9 T.S. Eliot once said that Middleton was a playwright second only to ___.

Jonson

Shakespeare

Brecht

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

Measure for Measure

Women Beware Women

A Game at Chess

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

Disguise

Irreverence

Hope

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

cohesive plot

protagonist

antagonist

resolution
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

All's Well That Ends Well

The Alchemist

The Revenger's Tragedy

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

Charles I

Elizabeth I

Henry VIII

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

Reformation

Restoration

Renaissance

Revival
16 What is this time period also known as?

Medieval period

Victorian era

Early modern period

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

Philip Henslowe

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare

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

courtier

physician

lawyer

actor
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

clowns

women

children

villains
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

tragedies

collaborations

comedies

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

Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe

John Marston

John Webster
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.

Fortune by Land and Sea

A Cure for a Cuckhold

All's Lost by Lust

A Fair Quarrel
23 Rowley likely began his career working for ___.

The Children of the Revels

The King's Men

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

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

the Queen's Men

the King's Men

the Admiral's Men

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

The Red Bull

The Rose

The Globe

Blackfriars

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