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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which best describes the relationship between Will and Christopher Marlowe?
(a) Full of professional rivalry yet possible friendship
(b) One of great collaboration and mutual financial profit
(c) Full of hatred and underhanded competition
(d) Apathetic

2. Which of Will’s plays does the removal of motivation for characters’ actions NOT affect?
(a) Othello
(b) Hamlet
(c) Twelfth Night
(d) King Lear

3. During the production of which of Will’s plays did the Globe Theater burn down?
(a) King Lear
(b) Macbeth
(c) Henry VIII
(d) Hamlet

4. Which play did Will write that contains an important Jewish character (Shylock)?
(a) The Merchant of Venice
(b) Othello
(c) Hamlet
(d) King Lear

5. What object did Will leave to his wife after his death?
(a) The family home
(b) His second-best bed
(c) All of his money
(d) His personal sword

6. Which person associated with Queen Elizabeth was executed on accusations of heresy and treason?
(a) The monarch’s doctor
(b) The monarch’s priest
(c) The monarch’s hairdresser
(d) The monarch’s daughter

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

8. In which of Will’s plays does Sir John Falstaff appear?
(a) Henry IV
(b) Macbeth
(c) Henry VI
(d) Othello

9. What was the name of Christopher Marlowe’s play that was about a Jew?
(a) Tamburlaine the Great
(b) As You Like It
(c) The Jew of Malta
(d) Come Alongside Me

10. Will’s acquisition of more land in Stratford enabled him to be considered a…
(a) Gentleman
(b) Lord
(c) Priest
(d) Mayor

11. Which member of the important group of playwrights in London was particularly opposed to Will’s success?
(a) Robert Greene
(b) The Earl of Southampton
(c) Christopher Marlowe
(d) Richard Field

12. Which of Will’s characters in Macbeth was a reinvention of one of King James’ ancestors?
(a) Iago
(b) Banquo
(c) Jack Cade
(d) Macbeth

13. Which of these prominent playwrights died last?
(a) Campion
(b) Greene
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Marlowe

14. In which play did Will NOT poke fun at the members of the prominent group of playwrights in London during his day?
(a) Twelfth Night
(b) The Merry Wives of Windsor
(c) Hamlet
(d) King Lear

15. What theater in London burned down towards the end of Will’s life?
(a) The Thorn
(b) The Rose
(c) The Glove
(d) The Globe

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 12 focuses on…

2. What happened to the Earl of Essex?

3. Who did the Earl of Southampton eventually marry?

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

5. Who was Christopher Marlowe’s roommate?

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