Jacobean Drama
1. The Jacobean are refers to the reign of James I, between
A. 1603-1625
B. 1630-1643
C. 1611-1624
2. the greatest playwright after Shakespeare was
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Ben Jonson
C. Philip Sydney
3. While Shakespeare's characters have psychological depth of a universal sort, the characters depicted by the most important playwright after Shakespeare were:
A. driven from the medieval theory of humours
B. driven from the Mystery plays
C. driven from the Interludes
4. the medieval theory of humours was explained in the work dated 1598
A. EveryMan in his character
B. EveryMan in his Humour
C. EveryMan's Humour
5. In Jacobean Drama, in each character a specific ................ dominates
A.quality
B. foible
C.virtue
6. Human beings were thought of being made of four humours
A.sanguine melancholic obsessive choleric
B. sanguine choleric phlegmatic melancholic
C.sanguine choleric intrusive melancholic
7. Volpone's peculiarity is
A.gluttony
B. avarice
C.stubborness
8. Jonson did not do like Shakeaspeare, who set his plays in remote countries and times, he depicted the places
A.he knew best
B. he had heard of by people who had been there
C. he had seen in other playwright's plays
9. Ben Jonson used to make fun of
A.proletarian people' s distress
B. abusive clergy's avarice
C. middle classes' gullibility and simplicity
10. After Shakeaspeare the greatest tragedian was
A.John Webster
B. Francis Beaumont
C. Thomas Dekker
11. The Elizabethan taste for blood and cruelty was best represented by
A.Andrew Marvell and John Lyly
B. John Ford and Cyril Tourneur
C.Christopher Marlowe and Philip Sydney
12. theatres were closed in England in
A.1654
B. 1624
C. 1642
13. "Volpone" was first acted in
A.1611
B. 1603
C. 1606
14. It tells the story on a rich Venitian and his parasitic servant Mosca. In order to get gifts he
A.pretends to be ill
B. pretends to be dying
C.pretends to be someone else and disappears from the city
15. Corvino offers .............. to Volpone in the hope of becoming his favourite heir
A.his wife
B. his daughter
C. his sister
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