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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Will go after leaving the county where he met Campion?
(a) Paris
(b) Birmingham
(c) London
(d) Stratford

4. In Chapter 3, what occupation is presented as one that Will might have done while living in Lancashire?
(a) Teacher
(b) Cook
(c) Actor
(d) Priest

5. Which member of Will’s family seemed to be sympathetic towards Roman Catholics and militant Protestants?
(a) Will’s father
(b) Will’s paternal grandfather
(c) Will’s brother
(d) Will’s cousin

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character in Will’s Titus Andronicus was treated in a particularly horrific way?

2. What eventually happened to Edmund Campion?

3. What characteristic was prevalent among theaters during Will’s day?

4. Chapter 3 begins with a discussion of…

5. Which play did Will write that contains an important Jewish character (Shylock)?

(see the answer key)

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