Shakespeare 1.

The primary source for Henry VI series was ____s The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York. a) Edward Hall b) Holinshed c) Samuel Daniel d) Plutarch

2. ____ features the longest soliloquy in all of Shakespeare plays (3.2.124-195) and has more battle scenes . a) Henry vi p 3 b) Henry vi p 2 c) Henry v

3. ___ concludes Shakespeares first tetrology. a) Richard iii b) Henry vi p 3 c) Henry vi p 2

4. ____, a hunchbacked villain character, pathetic and arrogant utters these words, A horse, a horse! My Kingdom for a horse! a) Richard iii b) Henry vi p 3 c) Henry vi p 2

5. Slapstick humour and mistaken identity is the key to understanding ___ in which the main Dromio is a character. a)The Comedy of Errors b) Loves Labours Lost c) Midsummer Nights Dream 6. Tamora, the Queen of Goths appears in ____ as the enemy of Titus Andronicus. a)Titus Andronicus b) Timur of Athens c) Tamora and Titus

7. The Taming of the Shrew begins with the famous ____ scene, where a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked by a noble man. a)Induction b) Porter c) Balcony

8. _____ is based on Gascoignes Supposes. a) The Taming of the Shrew b) Comedy of Errors c) As you Like it

9. Match the setting with the plays name a) Padua Othello Hamlet

b) Messina

c) Forest of Arden Taming of the Shrew d) Denmark e) Illyria f) Troy g) Venice h) Naples Macbeth The Tempest Twelfth Night As you Like it Troilus & Cressida

i) Birnam Wood - Much Ado About Nothing

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Match the Fool/ clown / Jester or fool like characters with the play Merry Wives of Windsor Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona

a) Launce b) Bottom c) Falstaff

d) Touchstone Mid Summer Nights Dream e) Yorick f) Feste As you Like it Hamlet

11. ___ is based on Montaignes Diana and deals with the themes of Friendship, infidelity and foolish behavior of people in love. a) As you Like it b) Two Gentlemen of Verona c) Twelfth Night

12. Honorificabilitudinitatibus, is the longest word in the English language featuring alternateing consonants and vowels. In which play does this word appear? a)Comedy of Errors b) Loves Labours Lost c) Romeo and Juliet

13. In the famous ___ scene, Juliet vows her love to Romeo in spite of her familys hatred towards the Montagues. a)Induction b) Porter 14. 15. c) Balcony

____ is Juliets surname/ family name. What is in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet. Whose words are these? a) Juliet 16. b) Rossario c) Romeo

Henry Bolingbroke, later named ____ kills Richard II.

a)Henry VIII b) Henry IV c) Henry V 17. Match the pairs as showed in the end of the play A Mid Summer Nights Dream. Theseus Hermia

Lysander Helena Oberon Hippolyta Titania

Demetrius 18. 19. __.

Who disguises as a male lawyer in The Merchant of Venice? The supposed source of Richard II, Henry IV P 1, Henry IV P 2 and Henry V is

a)Samuel Daniels Civil War

b) Plutarchs Lives

c) Holinsheds Chronicles

20. ____ in Julius Caesar appears in only three scenes and is killed at the beginning of the play. a)Cinna b) Octavius c) Caesar d)Titinius) 21. 22. Et tu Brute means? Cowards die many times before their deaths,

The valiant never taste of death but once. Whose words are these? a) Anthony b) Brutus 23. c) Caesar

This was the noblest Roman of them all:, who is been referred here? c) Caesar

a) Anthony b) Brutus

24. In Much ado About Nothing Leonato says There is a kind of merry ear betwixt Signior Benedick and her. Who is the woman referred here? a) Beatrice b) Hero 25. c) Margaret

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,

Men were deceivers ever, one foot in sea, and one on shore, to one thing constant never. Which play has this song to its credit? a)Much ado About Nothing 26. 27. b)As You Like it c) A Midsummer Nights Dream

___ disguises as Ganymede and Celia disguises as Aliena in As you Like it. The song All the Worlds a stage is sung by ___ in As you Like it.

28. ____ is Shakespeares only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. a)Hamlet b) The Merry Wives of Windsor c) Much ado About Nothing

29. Shakespeare based Hamlet on the legend of ____, preserved by Saxo Grammaticus in his a)Celts b)Gesta Danorum c) Orlando Furioso 30. Get thee to a nunnry, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners. Who says this to whom? 31. A little more than kin, and less than kind, is the assessment of Hamlets relationship with whom? a)Claudius 32. b) Polonius c) Ophelia d) Gertrude

O most pernicious woman!

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! Who is the woman referred here?

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Subtitle of Twelfth Night is___.

34. Troilus and Cressida ends with the death of ____ and the destruction of love between Troilus and Cressida. a)Hector 35. b) Achilles c) Troilus d) Cressida

The immediate source of Alls Well That Ends Well is ____. c)The Decameron

a)Orlando Furioso b) Lives 36.

The immediate source of Othello is Un Capitano Moro by ___. b) Boccaccio c) Ariosto

a)Cynthio 37.

As flies to wanton boys are we to th gods,

They kill us for their sport. Who utters these words in King Lear? 38. Come, lets away to prison;

We two alone will sing like birds I th cage. Who are the We two referred here? 39. 40. The three witches appear in which play? knock! Whos there, is from the ____ scene in Macbeth. c) Balcony

a)Induction b) Porter 41.

____ declares that he was from his mothers womb. Untimely rippd. b) Duncan c) Banquo

a)Macduff 42. 43.

Who sleep walks through the castle at night in Macbeth? Measure for Measure is considered as a ____.

a)Tragedy b) Comedy c) Problem Play 44. 45. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Who is been referred here? I am dying, Egypt dying. Whose words are these? b)Antony

a) Cleopatra 46.

The story of Coriolanus is taken from ____. c) Ariostos Orlando Furioso

a)Plutarchs Lives b) Holinsheds Chronicles

47. Timon of Athens, most obscure work of Shakespeare might have been written in collaboration with ___. a)Dekker 48. 49. b) Marston c)Middleton

Pericles is the Prince of ___. Cymbeline is based on ___ legends. b) Greek c) Romanian

a)Celtic

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Globe theatre burnt down during the staging of which play?

51 60. Match the title with the play of Shakespeare. 51. 52. 53. 54. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Macbeth

Twelfth Night Julius Caesar The Tempest Timon of Sonnet 30 Richard II As you Like it Hamlet Romeo and Juliet

55. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck Athens 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. What's in a Name? by Isaac Asimov Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Cakes and Ale by William Somerset Maugham

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Hamlet V.ii) Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (As you Like it II.v) The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth (Julius Caesar III.i) Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (IV.i) The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (Richard I I.i) What's in a Name? by Isaac Asimov (Romeo and Juliet II.ii) Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (The Tempest V.i) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Timon of Athens IV.iii) Cakes and Ale by William Somerset Maugham (Twelfth Night II.iii)