This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Christopher Marlowe > Christopher Marlowe – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Christopher Marlowe Quiz 1 (39 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) 31. B) 40. C) 29. D) 25. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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) John Milton. C) William Shakespeare. D) Edmund Spenser. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 4. Who is the author of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" ? A) Thomas Hardy. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) William Shakespeare. D) Sir Walter Raleigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christopher Marlowe. 5. What was the first published title of Christopher Marlow's play The Jew of Malta? A) The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta. B) The Story of the Rich Jew of Malta. C) The Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta. D) The Tragedy of the Jew of Malta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta. 6. When did Christopher Marlow die? A) 12 September 1598. B) 26 April 1601. C) 15 February 1611. D) 30 May 1593. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 30 May 1593. 7. What was the occupation of Christopher Marlowe's father? A) Farmer. B) Carpenter. C) Cobbler. D) Civil servant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cobbler. 8. Which was Marlowe's first play? A) The Tragedy of Dido. B) Dr.Faustus. C) The Jew of Malta,. D) Tamburlaine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tamburlaine. 9. 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. 10. Marlowe's major dramas depict heroes who all seek A) Power. B) Riches. C) Glory. D) Redemption. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Power. 11. 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. 12. Marlowe's play, Doctor Faustus, reflects the debate of Renaissance theologians over what opposing ideas? A) Love vs. war. B) Kindness vs. cruelty. C) Fate vs. free will. D) Catholicism vs. protestantism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fate vs. free will. 13. In which place of England Christopher Marlow born? A) Canterbury. B) London. C) Norflock. D) Warwick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canterbury. 14. To which theater was Christopher Marlow associated with? A) English Neo-Classical theatre. B) Restoration theatre. C) English Puritan theatre. D) English Renaissance theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English Renaissance theatre. 15. 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. 16. How many children did Shakespeare have? A) 3. B) 5. C) 12. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 17. Which of the following literary devices is used the most in the poem "The Passionate Shepherd's to his Love" ? A) Imagery. B) Symbols. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. When was Christopher Marlowe baptized? A) 10 October 1547. B) 26 February 1564. C) 30 April 1560. D) 12 January 1569. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 26 February 1564. 23. 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. 24. The great period of Elizabethan drama was launched by this invention of Christopher Marlowe's A) Sonnet. B) Rhymed iambic pentameter. C) Blank verse. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blank verse. 25. 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. 26. 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. 27. What is Christopher Marlowe's Nationality? A) American. B) British. C) German. D) Dutch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) British. 28. 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. 29. From which institution did Christopher Marlow receive Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584? A) Queens college. B) Trinity College. C) Corpus Christi College. D) Oxford University. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corpus Christi College. 30. In Shakespeare's days plays were A) Frowned upon by the lower classes. B) Almost exclusively performed for the aristocracy. C) Mostly religious in nature. D) Regarded as popular entertainment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regarded as popular entertainment. 31. It is very likely that Christopher Marlowe was employed by the government of Queen Elizabeth as a A) A spy against English Catholics conspiring to overthrow Queen Elizabeth's Protestant rule. B) Courtier. C) Royal court jester. D) Merchant for the international spice trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A spy against English Catholics conspiring to overthrow Queen Elizabeth's Protestant rule. 32. Which one of the following dramas attributed to Christopher Marlow is believed to have been his first? A) Edward the Second. B) The Jew of Malta. C) Tamburlaine the Great. D) Dido, Queen of Carthage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dido, Queen of Carthage. 33. At what age did Christopher Marlow die? A) 29. B) 47. C) 33. D) 54. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 29. 34. 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. 35. 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. 36. From where Christopher Marlowe received his early Education? A) Corpus Christi College. B) Oxford. C) Cambridge. D) Witternburg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Corpus Christi College. 37. 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) Edward the Second. B) Doctor Faustus. C) The Massacre at Paris. D) The Jew of Malta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edward the Second. 38. Doctor Faustus seeks the power of A) Forbidden knowledge. B) Rule. C) Money. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forbidden knowledge. 39. What is being idealized in this pastoral poem? A) Life of a young woman. B) Life in the countryside. C) Life of a young man. D) Life in the city. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life in the countryside. Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature Quizzes 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books