1) The Spanish Tragedy is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. The Spanish Tragedy also known as_________?
A:) Revenge Play
B:) Hieronimo is Mad Again
C:) Hieronimo’s Revenge
D:) Lunatic Revenge play
springline's Correct option: B:) Hieronimo is Mad Again
2) The Spanish Tragedy, play contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the________?
A:) Revenge Play
B:) Tragic play
C:) Violent tragedy
D:) Exploratory play
springline's Correct option: A:) Revenge Play
3) Which play is often considered to be the first mature Elizabethan drama, a claim disputed with Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, and was parodied by many Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights, including Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson?
A:) Ur-Hamlet
B:) Cornelia
C:) Hamlet
D:) The Spanish Tragedy
springline's Correct option: D:) The Spanish Tragedy
4) The Spanish Tragedy was performed at London's National Theatre, first in 1982 at the Cottesloe Theatre, with Michael Bryant in the role of Hieronimo, and directed by ________?
A:) Ben Johnson
B:) Michael Bogdanov
C:) Thomas Kyd
D:) Michael Boyd
springline's Correct option: B:) Michael Bogdanov
5) Kyd's play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 6 October 1592 by the bookseller Abel Jeffes. The play was published in an undated quarto, almost certainly before the end of the year______?
A:) 1590
B:) 1591
C:) 1592
D:) 1593
springline's Correct option: C:) 1592
6) The Spanish Tragedy: Before the play begins, the Viceroy of Portugal rebelled against Spanish rule. A battle took place in which the Portuguese were defeated and their leader. Who killed the Spanish Officer Andrea?
A:) Isabella
B:) Don Horatio
C:) Lorenzo
D:) Balthazar
springline's Correct option: D:) Balthazar
7) In Spanish Tragedy; At the beginning of each act, Andrea bemoans the series of injustices that have taken place and then Revenge reassures him that those deserving will get their comeuppance. Who is best friend of Andrea and also who captured Balthazar ?
A:) Horatio
B:) Bel-imperia
C:) Don Lorenzo
D:) Christophil
springline's Correct option: A:) Horatio
8) Despite her former feelings for Andrea, Bel-imperia soon falls for Horatio. She confesses that her love for Horatio is motivated partially by her desire for revenge: Bel-imperia intends to torment Balthazar. Bel-imperia who is a sister of______?
A:) Don Bazulto
B:) Don -Andrea
C:) Lorenzo
D:) Balthazar
springline's Correct option: C:) Lorenzo
9) The Spanish king decides that a marriage between Balthazar and Bel-imperia would be an excellent way to repair the peace with Portugal. Who suspecting that Bel-imperia has found a new lover, bribes her servant Pedringano and discovers that Horatio is the man?
A:) Lorenzo
B:) Marshal Hieronimo
C:) Balthazar
D:) Isabella
springline's Correct option: A:) Lorenzo
10) Unfortunately, Bel-imperia's character commits suicide, she also dies. Who tells everyone of the motive behind the murders, bites out his own tongue to prevent himself from talking under torture, and kills the Duke and then himself?
A:) Horatio
B:) Hieronimo
C:) Lorenzo
D:) Spanish king
springline's Correct option: B:) Hieronimo
11) Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's ____?
A:) Hamlet
B:) Ur-Hamlet
C:) Romeo-Juliet
D:) Macbeth
springline's Correct option: A:) Hamlet
12)The Spanish Tragedy’s, all of the early editions are anonymous. The first indication that the author of the play was Kyd was in 1773. Who was the editor of a three-volume play-collection in 1773?
A:) Christopher Marlow
B:) Michael Boyd
C:) Thomas Hawkins
D:) Michael Bogdanov
springline's Correct option: C:) Thomas Hawkins
13) Whose essay discusses, how Bel-imperia breaks free of traditional feminine roles to exact her revenge, and Early dialogue in this essay suggests that Bel-imperia exemplifies the ancient feministic model ?
A:) Katharine Eisaman Maus
B:) Michael Henry Levin
C:) Michael Bogdanov
D:) Richard Madelaines
springline's Correct option: D:) Richard Madelaines
14) Who believes 'Bel-imperia is as imperious as her brother—she chooses her lovers, woos them, and sleeps with them regardless of their social position—but she reveals a depth of feeling that Lorenzo never shows ?
A:) Michael Henry Levin
B:) Richard Madelaines
C:) Katharine Eisaman Maus
D:) Michael Bogdanov
springline's Correct option: A:) Michael Henry Levin
15) Hieronimo is one of the principal characters in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. He is the knight marshal of Spain and the father of Horatio. In the onset of the play he is a dedicated servant to the _________?
A:) Duke of Spain
B:) King of Spain
C:) Prince of Spain
D:) Isabella
springline's Correct option: B:) King of Spain
16) In Spanish Tragedy; Who envisions himself to be 'God's agent for the punishment of a whole nation' consequently letting him think that there is no need for him to differentiate between the innocent and the guilty?
A:) King of Spain
B:) Lorenzo
C:) Hieronimo
D:) Balthazar
springline's Correct option: C:) Hieronimo
17) “Kyd makes a point to his audience through the onstage presence of Revenge that Andrea has been allowed to 'return to earth with the embodiment of pagan justice to witness the enforcement of a just vengeance against his murderers'; Whose notion is this?
A:) Steven
B:) Thomas Kyd
C:) Marlow
D:) Ardolino
springline's Correct option: D:) Ardolino
18) Michael Henry Levin draws many comparisons between Kyd's Hieronimo and Shakespeare's Hamlet. Firstly, he believes that Thomas Kyd's drama is much simpler than Shakespeare's, and that it is this simplicity that opens the doors for the audience to truly see the 'furies that drive his characters'. Michael Henry Levin who is a__________?
A:) Critic
B:) Theologian
C:) Historian
D:) Editor
springline's Correct option: A:) Critic
19) In one theory, Steven Justice proposes that the fault lies not in Hieronimo, but rather in the society at the time. It is argued that Kyd used the revenge tragedy to give body to popular images of ____________?
A:) Court of Spain
B:) Church of Spain
C:) Catholic Spain
D:) Catholic Tradition
springline's Correct option: C:) Catholic Spain
20) Critics say that The Spanish Tragedy resembles a Senecan Tragedy. The separation of acts, the emphasized bloody climax, and the revenge itself, make this play resemble some of the most famous ancient plays. How many Senecan play were used in The Spanish Tragedy play by Thomas Kyd?
A:) Three
B:) Two
C:) Four
D:) Five
springline's Correct option: A:) Three
21) Who mentions ,'Hieronimo' in the Induction to his Cynthia's Revels (1600), has a character disguise himself in 'Hieronimo's old cloak, ruff, and hat' in The Alchemist (1610)?
A:) John Ford
B:) Ben Johnson
C:) Christopher Marlow
D:) John Webster
springline's Correct option: B:) Ben Johnson
22) The Spanish Tragedy; The characters of the Ghost of Andrea and Revenge form a chorus similar to that of Tantalus and Fury in Seneca's Thyestes. The Ghost describes his journey into the underworld and calls for punishment at the end of the play that has influences from Thyestes, Agamemnon and _______?
A:) Eris
B:) Phaedra
C:) Hestia
D:) Athena
springline's Correct option: B:) Phaedra
23) In The Spanish Tragedy, Balthazar is falling in love with Bel-imperia. Who decides that a marriage between Balthazar and Bel-imperia would be an excellent way to repair the peace with Portugal?
A:) Marshal of Spain
B:) Isabella
C:) Duke of Castile
D:) The Spanish King
springline's Correct option: D:) The Spanish King
24) In Spanish Tragedy, Lorenzo orders servants Pedringano and Serberine to kill Horatio. When Lorenzo thinks that he may be discovered by Hieronimo and Bel-imperia, he covers his tracks by ordering Pedringano to kill __________?
A:) Hieronimo
B:) Serberine
C:) Balthazar
D:) Bel-imperia
springline's Correct option: B:) Serberine
25) The Spanish Tragedy’ ,at the end of the play, Lorenzo is cast alongside Balthazar and Bel-Imperia in a revenge play written by Hieronimo. Bel-Imperia kills_______?
A:) Lorenzo
B:) Serberine
C:) Balthazar
D:) Pedringano
springline's Correct option: C:) Balthazar
26) Lorenzo is an example of the recognised type in the Elizabethan theatre of the Machiavellian villain, a word originated from the name of Niccolò Machiavelli, a philosopher in the early _______?
A:) 18th century
B:) 17th century
C:) 15th century
D:) 16th century
springline's Correct option: D:) 16th century
27) Thomas Kyd was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama. Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy, discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his _______?
A:) Apology for Actors
B:) Apology for poet
C:) Abuse to Apology
D:) Apology for Revenge play
springline's Correct option: A:) Apology for Actors
28) The Spanish Tragedy was probably written in the mid to late 1580s. The earliest surviving edition was printed in 1592; the full title being, The Spanish Tragedie, Containing the lamentable end of Don Horatio, and Bel-imperia: with the pittifull death of olde Hieronimo. However, the play was usually known simply as 'Hieronimo', after the _________?
A:) Protagonist
B:) Archaic Period
C:) Renaissance
D:) Reformation
springline's Correct option: A:) Protagonist
29) In the dedication to the Countess of Sussex Kyd alludes to the 'bitter times and privy broken passions' he had endured. Kyd died later that year at the age of _________?
A:) 30
B:) 33
C:) 35
D:) 36
springline's Correct option: C:) 35
30) Kyd's mother legally renounced the administration of his estate, probably because it was debt-ridden. Who was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and not rebuilt, and thus Thomas Kyd's grave was lost to posterity?
A:) Mary Elizabeth Frye
B:) St Mary Colechurch
C:) St Mary Church
D:) Elizabeth Bathory
springline's Correct option: B:) St Mary Colechurch