Intro to Shakespeare
9th - 11th grade
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  • Question 1
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    Q. Where was Shakespeare born?
    answer choices
    London
    Stratford-upon-Avon
    New York
    `Lincolnshire
  • Question 2
    60 seconds
    Q. Shakespeare was alive during...
    answer choices
    Elizabethan times
    Georgian times
    Shakespearian times
    Romanian times
  • Question 3
    60 seconds
    Q. Which theatre company was Shakespeare most closely associated with?
    answer choices
    The Queen's Men
    The London Theatre Company
    Lord Chamberlain's Men
    The Curtain
  • Question 4
    60 seconds
    Q. Fill in the blank:
    Shakespeare wrote around _____ plays during his lifetime.
    answer choices
    44
    37
    127
    27
  • Question 5
    60 seconds
    Q. An allusion is...
    answer choices
    A lie
    A plot that centers around comedy.
    A way to make the audience feel like they're part of the play.
    A reference to a literary or historical person or event.
  • Question 6
    60 seconds
    Q. Pun causes humor by using words that have similar sounds, but different what? 
    answer choices
    Meanings
    Allusions
    Connotations
    References
  • Question 7
    60 seconds
    Q. What is blank verse?
    answer choices
    A comedy
    Unrhymed lines that include iambic pentameter.
    Writing using rhymes.
    Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
  • Question 8
    60 seconds
    Q. What is the meaning of the Elizabethan word, "anon"? 
    answer choices
    soon or right away
    yesterday
    100 years ago
    over
  • Question 9
    60 seconds
    Q. What is the meaning of the Elizabethan word, "coz"?
    answer choices
    neighbor
    yonder
    cousin
    enemy
  • Question 10
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    Q. What is the meaning of the Elizabethan word, "morrow"?
    answer choices
    evening
    morning
    tomorrow
    a fortnight
  • Question 11
    60 seconds
    Q. What is the meaning of the Elizabethan word, "yonder"?
    answer choices
    over there
    tomorrow
    someday
    to yearn something
  • Question 12
    60 seconds
    Q. Which one of the following does NOT describe a "tragic hero"?
    answer choices
    protagonist
    becomes evil
    central character
    usually dies
  • Question 13
    60 seconds
    Q. What was the minimum cost to watch one of Shakespeare's plays?
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    1 penny
    1 pound
    1 dollar
    10 cents
  • Question 14
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    Q. What does an aside reveal?
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    The character's past.
    The hero's death.
    The antagonist's flaws.
    The character's private thoughts.
  • Question 15
    60 seconds
    Q. Fill in the blank:
    A tragedy is a drama that results in _______ - most often death.
    answer choices
    romance
    comedy
    catastrophe
    staging
  • Question 16
    60 seconds
    Q. Who are the two "households" that the prologue refers to? 
    answer choices
    Romeo and Juliet
    The Capulets and the Montagues
    Prince Escalus and Mercutio
    The Shakespeares and the Hathaways
  • Question 17
    30 seconds
    Q. Fill in the blank: 
    ___________ is not only a priest, but he was also Romeo's advisor.
    answer choices
    Lord Montague
    Friar John
    Friar Laurence
    Count Paris
  • Question 18
    30 seconds
    Q. A person who makes potions, medicine and poisons is called: 
    answer choices
    A Page
    A Servant
    A Watchman
    An Apothecary
  • Question 19
    30 seconds
    Q. The setting of "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" is: 
    answer choices
    Verona and Mantua in Northern Italy in the 14th Century
    London in the 15th Century
    Stratford-Upon-Avon in the 1300s
    Italy
  • Question 20
    30 seconds
    Q. What do we do when we don't understand a text? 
    answer choices
    We skip it.
    We don't do our work.
    We do a close reading to better understand the text.
    We copy what somebody else wrote about the text.
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