The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.

Middleton and Massinger

Beaumont and Fletcher

Middleton and Rowley

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

1656

1622

1600

1599
3 The play was first published in ___.

1666

1652

1702

1610
4 The Changeling is a ___.

history

comedy

romance

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

Elizabethan

Jacobean

Carolinian

Victorian
6 The subplot of the play is ___.

tragicomic

tragic

comic

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

William Shakespeare

Thomas Dekker

Ben Jonson

Francis Beaumont
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?

A Game at Chess

A Fair Quarrel

The Changeling

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

Jonson

Brecht

Marlowe

Shakespeare
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?

Irreverence

Disguise

Hope

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

cohesive plot

antagonist

protagonist

resolution
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?

All's Well That Ends Well

Macbeth

The Alchemist

The Revenger's Tragedy
14 Who was on the English throne at the time The Changeling was written?

Elizabeth I

Henry VIII

James I

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

Restoration

Reformation

Revival

Renaissance
16 What is this time period also known as?

Modernist period

Medieval period

Early modern period

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

William Shakespeare

Philip Henslowe

Philip Sidney

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

lawyer

actor

courtier

physician
19 Rowley was known for his portrayal of ___.

women

children

villains

clowns
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.

comedies

tragedies

prose work

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

Christopher Marlowe

Ben Jonson

John Webster

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

A Fair Quarrel

All's Lost by Lust

Fortune by Land and Sea

A Cure for a Cuckhold
23 Rowley likely began his career working for ___.

The Children of the Revels

Queen Anne's Men

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

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

the Admiral's Men

the King's Men

the Queen's Men

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

The Rose

The Globe

Blackfriars

The Red Bull

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