WorksheetsChristopher Marlowe
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564 and was the son of
a successful wine merchant
a shoemaker in Canterbury
a lawyer
a ship's captain
Christopher Marlowe attended Corpus Christi College in Cambridge on a scholarship for six years, the maximum time allowed, with the supposed intention to become
a teacher
a poet
an ordained member of the church clergy
a playwright
It is very likely that Christopher Marlowe was employed by the government of Queen Elizabeth as a
merchant for the international spice trade
courtier
royal court jester
a spy against English Catholics conspiring to overthrow Queen Elizabeth's Protestant rule
Which are plays by Marlowe?
Tamburlaine - story of the adventures of 14th century Mongol warrior who seeks the power of rule and is ultimately struck down for burning the Muslim Qur'an
Edward II, which follows the tragic fate of a homosexual king
The Jew of Malta, a monstrous anti-Semitic caricature in which the main character seeks the power of money yet, in the end, turns out to be less ruthless and hypocritical than his Christian counterparts
Doctor Faustus, a character who seeks the power of forbidden knowledge and is struck down for his rebellion against God and the moral order
Marlowe's major dramas depict heroes who all seek
power
redemption
glory
riches
Doctor Faustus seeks the power of
money
rule
forbidden knowledge
love
The great period of Elizabethan drama was launched by this invention of Christopher Marlowe's
sonnet
elegy
rhymed iambic pentameter
blank verse
Poems written by Christopher Marlowe include
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, a pastoral poem
Hero and Leander, mythological poem about two ill-fated lovers
The Flea
The Merchant of Venice
Marlowe's play, Doctor Faustus, reflects the debate of Renaissance theologians over what opposing ideas?
Love vs. war
kindness vs. cruelty
catholicism vs. protestantism
fate vs. free will
Marlowe was accused of
atheism
sedition
homosexuality
being a Catholic
In 1593, only six years after his first great theatrical success, Marlowe was murdered by the thrust of a dagger. How old was Marlowe when he died?
29
31
25
40
Christopher Marlowe was born two months before
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare
John Milton
Doctor Faustus has mastered and become bored with what disciplines?
logic
medicine
law
divinity
forbidden knowledge of magic
What are themes present in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus?
Medieval vs. Renaissance values
Sin
Redemption
Power
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is based on the story, "The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus," which comes from
Italy
Germany
France
England
