The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.
Middleton and Rowley

Beaumont and Fletcher

Shakespeare and Jonson

Middleton and Massinger
2 The play was first performed in ___.
1600

1599

1622

1656
3 The play was first published in ___.
1652

1610

1666

1702
4 The Changeling is a ___.
romance

tragedy

history

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

Jacobean

Elizabethan

Carolinian
6 The subplot of the play is ___.
comic

tragic

tragicomic

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

Wit at Several Weapons

A Fair Quarrel

The Changeling
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

Measure for Measure

A Game at Chess

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

Irreverence

Cynicism

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

cohesive plot

antagonist

protagonist
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

Charles I

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

Renaissance

Reformation

Restoration
16 What is this time period also known as?
Victorian era

Medieval period

Early modern period

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

Philip Sidney

William Shakespeare

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

courtier

physician

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

women

villains

children
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.
comedies

prose work

tragedies

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

John Webster

Christopher Marlowe

John Marston
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.
A Cure for a Cuckhold

A Fair Quarrel

All's Lost by Lust

Fortune by Land and Sea
23 Rowley likely began his career working for ___.
The King's Men

Queen Anne's Men

The Children of the Revels

The Lord Chamberlain's Men
24 In 1623, Rowley joined ___.
the Children of the Revels

the Admiral's Men

the King's Men

the Queen'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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