Part 3: Text Structure in an Informational Text — Quiz
Question 17 • English Language Arts 12
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England . By the end of the reign he [Jonson] has married, had two children and lost one, tried to become an actor and failed, become a playwright, been arrested for a scurrilous play and released, killed another actor in a duel, been arrested again and put on trial for murder, and escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy. The play for which he is arrested, The Isle of Dogs, coauthored with Thomas Nashe, is so slanderous and offensive that the privy council orders the closure not just of the play but of every theater in London. Which event most directly caused the council to order the closure of all theaters in London?
Answer
A
the actor being killed in a duel
B
the clergy pardoning Jonson
C
Jonson becoming a playwright
D
Jonson and Nashe writing The Isle of Dogs
Explanation
The excerpt says the privy council ordered every theater in London to close because The Isle of Dogs was considered slanderous and offensive. Jonson and Thomas Nashe coauthored that play, so the event that most directly caused the closure was their writing it. The duel and Jonson’s arrest are separate events in his life, not the stated reason for closing the theaters.
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