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UNIT-II DRAMA

SHAKESPEARE

Questions

1. Which of these Greek plays was a source for The Winter's Tale?
A) Iphigeneia at Aulis B) Alcestis
C) Medea D) Iphigeneia at Tauris
2. Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler's edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to
the word "Bowdlerize". What does it mean?
A) the expurgation of indicate language
B) the modernization of archaic vocabulary
C) the insertion of bawdy songs
D) the expansion of female characters

3. In Shakespeare's time who owned the rights to a theatrical script?

A) the playwright(s) B) the patron of the acting
company
C) the printer D) the acting company

4. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of Shakespeare’s

A) Coriolanus B) Julius Caesar
C) Henry IV Part –I D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

5. Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare’s

A) The Merchant of Venice B) The Tempest
C) Othello D) King Lear

6. Arrange the following stages in a sequence in which all Shakespearean tragedies

are structured. Use the code given below:
I. Denouement II. Conflict III. Exposition IV. Climax
Code:
A) III, II, IV, I B) III, IV, II, I C) II, IV, III, I D) II, IV, I, III

7. Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use ‘cross-dressing’ as a device?

A) As You Like It B) Julius Caesar
C) Cymbeline D) Two Gentlemen of Verona
8. The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in
_______ than in medieval works of literature and art.
A) Ben Jonson B) Shakespeare C) Philip Sidney D) Edmund
Spenser

9. If you cannot understand an argument and remark, "It's Greek to me", you are
quoting _____
A) John Milton B) Samuel Johnson
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C) William Shakespeare D) John Donne

10. Falstaff is a character in ________
A) Henry IV Part I B) The Merry Wives of Windsor
C) The Comedy of Errors D) Titus Andronicus
The right combination according to the code is :
A) (a) and (b) B) (a) and (c) C) (c) and (d)D) (a) and

11. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are
based on_______.
A) Holinshed’s Chronicles B) Folk-tales and legends
C) Older Roman Plays D) Plutarch’s Lives

12. Arrange the following plays of Shakespeare according to their periods

(early, middle, late...) of composition.
A) As You Like It, Love’s Labours Lost, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest,
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
B) Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s
Labours Lost, As You Like It.
C) Love’s Labours Lost, Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Antony
and Cleopatra, The Tempest.
D) Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, As You
Like It, Love’s Labours Lost.

13. The first instance of female cross-dressing with the disconcerting nuances
of a boy actor dressing as a boy while playing the role of a woman in the
dramatic world of Shakespeare occurs in __________.
A) The Two Gentlemen of Verona B) As you Like It
C) Twelfth Night D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

14. “All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players”,
occurs in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Which character says the line ?
A) Jacques B) Celia C) Rosalind D)
Touchstone

15. Feste is a clown in

A) Twelfth Night B) As You Like It
C) The Training of the Shrew D) Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare’s plays are discussed one by one in the next chapter.