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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Richard Field live?
(a) Stratford
(b) Lancashire
(c) London
(d) Paris

2. What is the name of another epic poem that Will wrote?
(a) The Rape of Lucrece
(b) Othello
(c) Hamlet
(d) As You Like It

3. Chapter 3 begins with a discussion of…
(a) The health challenges prevalent during Will’s time
(b) The typical rural English household
(c) The dangers of traveling by road during Will’s day
(d) The type of clothes Will would have worn

4. Which character in Will’s Titus Andronicus was treated in a particularly horrific way?
(a) Lavinia
(b) King Lear
(c) Juliet
(d) Falstaff

5. Which play is presented in Chapter 5 as portraying Will’s empathy with citizens of the lower classes?
(a) King Lear
(b) Romeo and Juliet
(c) Henry IV
(d) Henry VI

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase best describes the Earl of Southampton?

2. What was the name of Christopher Marlowe’s play that was about a Jew?

3. In Chapter 9, who was the reigning monarch of England?

4. Chapter 1 begins with a discussion of…

5. What circumstance heavily influenced the writing of Hamlet?

(see the answer key)

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