Shakespeare Review

Shakespeare Review

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Shakespeare uses disguise to discover who people really are when they're in tough circumstances.

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​People are not always what they appear.

Match

Match the following

• Claudio

• Lucio

• Angelo

• Isabella

looks bad, is good

looks bad, is bad

looks good, is bad

looks good, is good

• looks bad, is good

• looks bad, is bad

• looks good, is bad

• looks good, is good

Things are supposed to be in a certain order.

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​Macbeth messed with the order of the universe.

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Duncan was:

• the best of kings

• father of Donalbain and Malcolm

• murdered by Macbeth

• all of these

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Malcolm was:

• hid at fife to spy for Macduff

• firstborn son of Duncan who flees to England

• second son of Duncan who flees to Ireland

• kills Macbeth to take the throne

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Donalbain was:

• the original thane of Cawdor, he was executed

• second son of Duncan who fled to Ireland

• hidden at Fife to spy for Macduff

• one of the lords of Scotland at Macbeth's coronation

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Macbeth was:

• a victim of the witches' mischief

• married to an ambitious woman

• Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Glamis, king hereafter

• all of these

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Banquo was:

• Macbeth's best friend

• murdered for his suspicions

• father of Fleance

• all of these

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Macduff was:

• Untimely ripped from his mother's womb

• suspicious of Macbeth

• tested by Malcolm

• all of these

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Who was Ross?

• observed the murder from a secret room

• awakened the porter with his trumpet

• cousin of Macduff who tries to warn Lady Macduff

• all of these

Match

Match the following

• Fleance

• Siward

• Seyton

• Porter

• Murderers

Banquo's son who escapes

English soldier and Malcolms uncle

one of Macbeth's last followers

comic relief and homely wisdom

hired by Macbeth for his dirty work

• Banquo's son who escapes

• English soldier and Malcolms uncle

• one of Macbeth's last followers

• comic relief and homely wisdom

• hired by Macbeth for his dirty work

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She was brainy, beautiful, and insanely ambitious:

• Lady Macduff

• Lady Macbeth

• gentlewoman

• Gertrude

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She was frustrated by her husband's travels and murdered by Macbeth's hired goons:

• Beatrice

• Lady Macbeth

• Lady Macduff

• Nala

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She noticed Lady Macbeth's significant sleepingwalking and called in a doctor:

• Hecate

• apparitions

• gentlewoman

• Lady Macduff

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She was angry with her minions and added her own mischief to the plan to destroy Macbeth.

• Maleficent

• Hecate

• Mischief

• apparition

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They were out to get Macbeth from the beginning:

• Malcolm and Macduff

• Malcolm and Donalbain

• Banquo and Fleance

• the witches

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They show Hecate's edited version of the future to Macbeth:

• The apparitions from the cauldron

• The witches

• Hecate

• the murderers

​We know he's flawed, but he really cares about his father and he's up against a really nasty villain. When Ophelia dies it's really the last straw.

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Hamlet seems like more of a tragedy

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When he returned to Denmark his father was dead and his uncle had taken the throne:

• Simba

• Horatio

• Hamlet

• Hamnet

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He was obsessed with the queen and blunted in his efforts to get rid of Hamlet:

• Claudius

• Horatio

• Laertes

• Polonius

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She was "the beauteous majesty of Denmark":

• Ophelia

• Jocasta

• Hero

• Gertrude

Multiple Choice

Hamlet was in love with her but had too many problems to be able to marry her. Her father and brother warned her against Hamlet.

• Ophelia

• Beatrice

• Hero

• Gertrude

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He was an advisor to the king and was murdered..."the unseen good old man":

• Horatio

• Polonius

• Yorick

• Laertes

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He was doomed to wander the night for a season because he hadn't confessed his sins when he died. He told his son to avenge his foul murder:

• Polonius

• Laertes

• Hamlet I

• Claudius

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He was Hamlet's best friend. He tried to protect Hamlet and Ophelia, but in the end, nothing could save them. hamlet told him to live in sorrow and tell the story.

• Laertes

• Horatio

• Rosencrantz

• Guildenstern

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He was goaded by the king to kill Hamlet. Because of his father's and sister's deaths, he was ready to do anything, but he asked Hamlet's forgiveness before he died:

• Fortinbras

• Laertes

• Horatio

• Polonius