1. The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright, Ben Jonson. It was First performed by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy. It was first performed in_________?
a) 1609
b) 1610
c) 1612
d) 1611
springline's Correct option: b) 1610
2. The Alchemist play ‘s clever fulfilment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays (except the works of Shakespeare) with a continuing life on stage, apart from a period of neglect during the ____________?
a) Victorian Era
b) Jacobean Era
c) Elizabethan Era
d) Golden Era
springline's Correct option: a) Victorian Era
3. The Alchemist premiered 34 years after the first permanent public theatre (The Theatre) opened in London; it is, then, a product of the early maturity of commercial drama in London. Who believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Dryden
c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d) John Audrey
springline's Correct option: c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. In ‘The Alchemist’; Lovewit leaves his house under the sole charge of his butler. Who transforms himself into Captain Face?
a) Jeremy
b) Face
c) Subtle
d) Butler
springline's Correct option: a) Jeremy
5. In Alchemist; An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country. Who uses the opportunity given to him to use the house as the headquarters for fraudulent acts?
a) Subtle
b) Jeremy
c) Dol
d) Butler
springline's Correct option: b) Jeremy
6. The play opens with a violent argument between Subtle and Face concerning the division of the riches which they have, and will continue to gather. Face threatens to have an engraving made of Subtle with a face worse than that of the notorious highwayman__________.
a) Thomas Lodge
b) Michael Henry
c) Gamaliel Ratsey
d) Mammon
springline's Correct option: c) Gamaliel Ratsey
7. In Alchemist; Their first customer is Dapper, a lawyer's clerk who wishes Subtle to use his supposed necromantic skills to summon a familiar or spirit to help in his gambling ambitions. The tripartite suggest that Dapper may win favour with the _______.
a) James I
b) Queen of London
c) Queen of England
d) Queen of Fairy
springline's Correct option: d) Queen of Fairy
8. A wealthy nobleman, Sir Epicure Mammon, arrives, expressing the desire to gain himself the philosopher's stone, which he believes will bring him huge material and ______?
a) Spiritual wealth
b) Spiritual Health
c) Spiritual Life
d) Rich life
springline's Correct option: a) Spiritual wealth
9. In Alchemist; Surly however, suspects Subtle of being a thief. Who accidentally sees Dol and is told that she is a Lord's sister who is suffering from madness?
a) Drugger
b) Kestril
c) Subtle
d) Mammon
springline's Correct option: d) Mammon
10.The Philosophers’ stone, more properly philosophers' stone or stone of the philosophers is a mythical alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver. It is also called the _______.
a) Elixir magic
b) Spiritual Stone
c) Elixir of life
d) Elixir of stone
springline's Correct option: c) Elixir of life
11.In Alchemist; Drugger returns and is given false and ludicrous advice about setting up his shop; he also brings news that a rich young widow and her brother have arrived in London. What is the name of the young widow in this play?
a) Kastril
b) Dame Pliant
c) Butler
d) Dol
springline's Correct option: b) Dame Pliant
12.Kastril and his sister come again. Kastril is given a lesson in quarrelling, and the widow captivates both Face and Subtle. They quarrel over who is to have her. Who would returns, disguised as a Spanish nobleman ?
a) Lovewit
b) Mammon
c) Subtle
d) Surly
springline's Correct option: d) Surly
13.People of all social classes are subject to Jonson's ruthless, satirical wit. He mocks human weakness and gullibility to advertising and to miracle cures with the character of _______.
a) Lovewit
b) Subtle
c) Sir Epicure Mammon
d) Dame Plaint
springline's Correct option: c) Sir Epicure Mammon
14.The con-artists' vanities and aspirations are revealed by the very personae they assume as part of their plan. The egotistical Subtle casts himself as an ______.
a) Sea Captain
b) Alchemist
c) Captain of Alchemist
d) Leader of the plan
springline's Correct option: b) Alchemist
15.Barely ten lines into the text; ‘Tis his fault. He ever murmurs and objects his pains, and says the weight of all lies upon him’ this is a line taken from ,The Alchemist play, which character said this line?
a) Face
b) Surely
c) Subtle
d) Drugger
springline's Correct option: a) Face
16.In The Alchemist; Jonson reserves his harshest satire for these Puritan characters—perhaps because the Puritans, in real life, wished to close down the theatres. Tribulation and Ananias call their fellow men _______?
a) Christ
b) Ironic man
c) Heath-Dwellers
d) Heathens
springline's Correct option: a) Heathens
17.Who may have mentioned Jonson to increase interest in a somewhat obscure play he was then reviving; he may also have been confused about the dates?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Dryden
c) Thomas Lodge
d) John Audrey
springline's Correct option: b) Dryden
18.Tomkis's apparent familiarity with commercial dramaturgy make it possible that Jonson was aware of The Alchemist, and may have been responding to the play's success. The play continued onstage as a droll during the Commonwealth period; after the ________.
a) Renaissance
b) Reformation
c) Restoration
d) Tudor Period
springline's Correct option: c) Restoration
19.The play fell into desuetude, along with nearly all non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama, until the beginning of the twentieth century. William Poel's Elizabethan Stage Society produced the play in ______?
a) 1899
b) 1888
c) 1897
d) 1877
springline's Correct option: a) 1899
20.A new RSC production directed by Polly Findlay and featuring Ken Nwosu as Face, Hywel Morgan as Lovewit, Siobhan McSweeney as Dol and Mark Lockyer as Subtle was scheduled to open at London's Barbican Theatre on ________?
a) 1st September 2016
b) 2 September 2016
c) 1st September 2015
d) 2 September 2015
springline's Correct option: b) 2 September 2016
21.Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the ______?
a) Comedy of Humours
b) Comedy of Rumours
c) King of Comedy
d) Comedy of Tragedy
springline's Correct option: a) Comedy of Humours
22.Ben Jonson is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of _______?
a) James V
b) Charles I
c) Charles II
d) James I
springline's Correct option: d) James I
23.Jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era and of the Caroline era ,the period of Caroline era is_______.
a) 1625-1642
b) 1623-1652
c) 1530- 1625
d) 1617-1643
springline's Correct option: a) 1625-1642
24.Ben Jonson, is ancestors spelled the family name with a letter 't' (Johstone or Johnstoun). While the spelling had eventually changed to the more common Johnson, and whose own particular preference became Jonson?
a) Poet’s
b) Playwright’s
c) Comic Writer
d) Dramatist’s
springline's Correct option: b) Playwright’s
25. William Camden was one of his masters. In the event, the pupil and the master became friends, and the intellectual influence of Camden's broad-ranging scholarship upon Jonson's art and literary style remained notable, until Camden's death in ________.
a) 1619
b) 1614
c) 1620
d) 1623
springline's Correct option: d) 1623
26. Ben Jonson: After his military activity on the Continent, Jonson returned to England and worked as an actor and as a playwright. As an Actor, Jonson was a protagonist of the famous play of________?
a) Ur-Hamlet
b) The Spanish Tragedy
c) Doctor Faustus
d) Every Man in His Humour
springline's Correct option: b) The Spanish Tragedy
27. Who reports, on uncertain authority, that Jonson was not successful as an actor; whatever his skills as an actor, he was evidently more valuable to the company as a writer?
a) John Aubrey
b) Thomas Lodge
c) Dryden
d) Shakespeare
springline's Correct option: a) John Aubrey
28. At the beginning of the English reign of James VI and I in 1603 Jonson joined other poets and playwrights in welcoming the new king. In 1616 Jonson received a yearly pension of 100 marks (about £60), leading some to identify him as England's first __________?
a) Literary Poet
b) Literary Critic
c) Poet Laureate
d) Courtiers
springline's Correct option: c) Poet Laureate
29. When Shakespeare died, Ben Jonson said, He was not of an age, but for all time.Thomas Fuller relates stories of Jonson and Shakespeare engaging in debates in the ___________?
a) Mermaid Tavern
b) Worthies of England
c) Terra Moriath
d) Terra Canaan
springline's Correct option: a) Mermaid Tavern
30. Who was a towering literary figure, and his influence was enormous for he has been described as 'One of the most vigorous minds that ever added to the strength of English literature'?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Ben Jonson
c) Benjamin Johnson
d) Dryden
springline's Correct option: b) Ben Jonson