This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Christopher Marlowe > Christopher Marlowe – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Christopher Marlowe Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What sonnet 18 and 130 have in common: A) They are both about the impermanence of beauty. B) They are both about comparing someone's beauty to something. C) Both conclude that something beyond mere physical appearance is a more valuable form of beauty. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both conclude that something beyond mere physical appearance is a more valuable form of beauty. 2. Blank verse is A) Poetry without fixed numbers or syllables per line. B) Poetry without fixed stress patterns. C) Poetry with iambic pentameter without rhyme. D) Another word for prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry with iambic pentameter without rhyme. 3. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is based on the story, "The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus, " which comes from A) Italy. B) Germany. C) France. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Germany. 4. When was Christopher Marlowe baptized? A) 26 February 1564. B) 12 January 1569. C) 30 April 1560. D) 10 October 1547. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 26 February 1564. 5. Christopher Marlowe attended Corpus Christi College in Cambridge on a scholarship for six years, the maximum time allowed, with the supposed intention to become A) A teacher. B) A poet. C) An ordained member of the church clergy. D) A playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An ordained member of the church clergy. 6. The great period of Elizabethan drama was launched by this invention of Christopher Marlowe's A) Sonnet. B) Elegy. C) Rhymed iambic pentameter. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blank verse. 7. What is the theme of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe? A) Coming of age. B) Power and corruption. C) Idyllic life in the countryside. D) Courage and heroism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idyllic life in the countryside. 8. What type of poetry is Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'? A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Elegy. D) Pastoral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pastoral. 9. What is Christopher Marlowe's Nationality? A) British. B) German. C) Dutch. D) American. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British. 10. Shakespeare wrote A) More than 100 plays and a few poems. B) A staggering number of 54 plays and 101 sonnets. C) 37 plays, 154 sonnets and some longer poems. D) 15 plays, 27 novels, 234 sonnets and a collections of essays. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 37 plays, 154 sonnets and some longer poems. 11. From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584? A) Oxford University. B) Trinity College. C) Corpus Christi College. D) Queens college. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corpus Christi College. 12. In Shakespeare's days plays were A) Almost exclusively performed for the aristocracy. B) Regarded as popular entertainment. C) Mostly religious in nature. D) Frowned upon by the lower classes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regarded as popular entertainment. 13. It is very likely that Christopher Marlowe was employed by the government of Queen Elizabeth as a A) Merchant for the international spice trade. B) Courtier. C) Royal court jester. D) A spy against English Catholics conspiring to overthrow Queen Elizabeth's Protestant rule. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A spy against English Catholics conspiring to overthrow Queen Elizabeth's Protestant rule. 14. Which one of the following dramas attributed to Christopher Marlow is believed to have been his first? A) The Jew of Malta. B) Dido, Queen of Carthage. C) Edward the Second. D) Tamburlaine the Great. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dido, Queen of Carthage. 15. At what age did Christopher Marlow die? A) 33. B) 29. C) 47. D) 54. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 29. 16. Christopher Marlowe A) Was an erudite playwright with courtly manners. B) Was an untrustworthy intriguer and a poet. C) Was a controversial, violent but talented man. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was a controversial, violent but talented man. 17. Which of the following are the common topics of pastoral poems? A) Love and seduction. B) Death and mourning. C) Purity of idealized country life vs. corruption of the city. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education? A) Corpus Christi College. B) Cambridge. C) Oxford. D) Witternburg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Corpus Christi College. 19. Which one of the following plays of Christopher Marlow tells the story of the disposition of a king by his barons and the Queen? A) Doctor Faustus. B) Edward the Second. C) The Massacre at Paris. D) The Jew of Malta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edward the Second. 20. Doctor Faustus seeks the power of A) Money. B) Rule. C) Forbidden knowledge. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forbidden knowledge. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesChristopher Marlowe Quiz 1Christopher Marlowe Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books