The Changeling Quizzes

The Changeling Quiz1

1 The Changeling was written by ___.
Shakespeare and Jonson

Middleton and Rowley

Beaumont and Fletcher

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

1622

1600

1656
3 The play was first published in ___.
1652

1666

1610

1702
4 The Changeling is a ___.
comedy

history

tragedy

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

Jacobean

Carolinian

Victorian
6 The subplot of the play is ___.
romantic

tragic

tragicomic

comic
7 Along with Rowley, Middleton often collaborated with ___.
Ben Jonson

Thomas Dekker

Francis Beaumont

William Shakespeare
8 Which of these was not a collaboration between Middleton and Rowley?
A Game at Chess

Wit at Several Weapons

The Changeling

A Fair Quarrel
9 T.S. Eliot once said that Middleton was a playwright second only to ___.
Shakespeare

Jonson

Brecht

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

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

A Game at Chess

Measure for Measure
11 Which of these is a typical staple of Middleton's work?
Hope

Cynicism

Disguise

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

antagonist

resolution

cohesive plot
13 Which of these did Middleton likely write?
Macbeth

The Alchemist

All's Well That Ends Well

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

Elizabeth I

Henry VIII

Charles 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

Early modern period

Victorian era

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

William Shakespeare

Philip Sidney

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

courtier

actor

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

children

villains

women
20 Rowley is best known for his ___.
comedies

tragedies

prose work

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

Ben Jonson

John Webster

Christopher Marlowe
22 One play that Rowley wrote alone is ___.
A Cure for a Cuckhold

All's Lost by Lust

A Fair Quarrel

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

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

Queen Anne's Men

The Children of the Revels
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 Rose

Blackfriars

The Red Bull

The Globe

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