This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Christopher Marlowe > Christopher Marlowe – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Christopher Marlowe Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In 1593, only six years after his first great theatrical success, Marlowe was murdered by the thrust of a dagger. How old was Marlowe when he died? A) 29. B) 31. C) 25. D) 40. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 29. 2. Identify the things the shepherd promises to give his beloved? A) He will make her a bed of roses. B) He will make her a dress and slippers made of wool. C) They will listen to the birds. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. Christopher Marlowe was born two months before A) Geoffrey Chaucer. B) Edmund Spenser. C) William Shakespeare. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 4. Who is the author of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" ? A) Christopher Marlowe. B) William Shakespeare. C) Sir Walter Raleigh. D) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christopher Marlowe. 5. What was the first published title of Christopher Marlow's play The Jew of Malta? A) The Tragedy of the Jew of Malta. B) The Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta. C) The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta. D) The Story of the Rich Jew of Malta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta. 6. When did Christopher Marlow die? A) 30 May 1593. B) 12 September 1598. C) 26 April 1601. D) 15 February 1611. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 30 May 1593. 7. Marlow died of? A) Illness. B) Stabbing. C) Poisoned. D) Hanged. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stabbing. 8. What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowe's father? A) Carpenter. B) Civil servant. C) Cobbler. D) Farmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cobbler. 9. Which was Marlowe's first play? A) Dr.Faustus. B) Tamburlaine. C) The Tragedy of Dido. D) The Jew of Malta,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tamburlaine. 10. His ultimate wish is A) To have Helen of Troy. B) That he would have repented earlier and made other choices. C) That the period in exchange for his soul would have been much longer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That he would have repented earlier and made other choices. 11. Marlowe's major dramas depict heroes who all seek A) Power. B) Redemption. C) Glory. D) Riches. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Power. 12. Shakespeare's sonnet 18 aims to A) Immortalize the poet's love through poetry. B) Cheat transitoriness by stating that his love will never fade. C) Disparage beauty because it is short-lived. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immortalize the poet's love through poetry. 13. Marlowe's play, Doctor Faustus, reflects the debate of Renaissance theologians over what opposing ideas? A) Love vs. war. B) Kindness vs. cruelty. C) Catholicism vs. protestantism. D) Fate vs. free will. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fate vs. free will. 14. In which place of England Christopher Marlow born? A) London. B) Norflock. C) Canterbury. D) Warwick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canterbury. 15. To which theater was Christopher Marlow associated with? A) English Puritan theatre. B) English Renaissance theatre. C) Restoration theatre. D) English Neo-Classical theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English Renaissance theatre. 16. What does the narrator want his love to do? A) Become his shepherd for his flocks of sheep. B) Run away with him to live in the country. C) Become a gardener and grow many roses. D) Dance with him happily. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Run away with him to live in the country. 17. How many children did Shakespeare have? A) 3. B) 5. C) 8. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 18. Which of the following literary devices is used the most in the poem "The Passionate Shepherd's to his Love" ? A) Symbols. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 19. In what sense is Faustus a man of his time? A) He is curious, unboud by scripture, interested in amassing knowledge and alternative wisdom. B) He is not afraid of God and in love with classical Greece. C) He looks back at the ancient civilisations for guidance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is curious, unboud by scripture, interested in amassing knowledge and alternative wisdom. 20. Doctor Faustus is mainly plagued by A) His own insatiability. B) Evil conspiring against him. C) The devious influence of Mephistopheles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His own insatiability. Next →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesChristopher Marlowe Quiz 2Christopher Marlowe Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books