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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Will and Christopher Marlowe have in common?
(a) The same university education
(b) Family connections
(c) Love of language
(d) The desire to drink heavily

2. In Chapter 12, what does the author suggest that Will feared?
(a) Old age
(b) Financial ruin
(c) The king's wrath
(d) Fire

3. What relationship forms the basis of human interactions in several of Will’s works in his latter days?
(a) Husband-wife relationship
(b) Father-daughter relationship
(c) Brother-sister relationship
(d) Father-son relationship

4. What does Chapter 8 say that Will may have developed towards the Earl of Southampton?
(a) Apathy
(b) Romantic feelings
(c) Animosity
(d) Sympathy

5. In Chapter 8, the author states that the theaters in London were closed. Why was this the case?
(a) Because of political unrest
(b) Because of financial woes
(c) Because of the plague
(d) Because of church sanctions

6. Who was Christopher Marlowe’s roommate?
(a) Thomas Nashe
(b) The Earl of Southampton
(c) Robert Greene
(d) Thomas Kyd

7. Chapter 11 begins with…
(a) More discussion about Venus and Adonis
(b) More discussion about King Lear
(c) More discussion about Othello
(d) More discussion about Hamlet

8. What did Will buy more and more of in Stratford?
(a) Sheep
(b) Land
(c) Swords
(d) Books

9. Which character in one of Will’s works especially reflects the encounters that Will had with two of the members of the important group of playwrights in London?
(a) Romeo
(b) King Lear
(c) Falstaff
(d) John Cade

10. Who did the Earl of Southampton eventually marry?
(a) One of the queen’s maids
(b) Will’s daughter
(c) Will’s sister
(d) A princess from France

11. Which popular poet of the day attempted to defend Will and his work?
(a) Christopher Marlowe
(b) Sir Thomas Lucy
(c) Thomas Nashe
(d) Richard Field

12. Which of Will’s plays was being performed during the rebellion by the Earl of Essex?
(a) Richard II
(b) Macbeth
(c) King Lear
(d) Hamlet

13. Which of Will’s children died?
(a) Hamnet
(b) Judith
(c) Anne
(d) Susanna

14. Which play does NOT demonstrate a focus on the father-daughter relationship?
(a) Twelfth Night
(b) The Tempest
(c) Pericles
(d) King Lear

15. Which important person in Will’s life supported the rebellion against the queen led by the Earl of Essex?
(a) The Earl of Southampton
(b) Richard Field
(c) The Duke of York
(d) Christopher Marlowe

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the members of the important group of playwrights in London during Will’s day?

2. Which of these is a writing technique that Will used in writing Hamlet?

3. Which monarch ascended to the throne after the death of Queen Elizabeth?

4. Where did Will live near the end of his life?

5. What phrase best describes the Earl of Southampton?

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