Elizabethan England and Shakespeare

A playwright or author in Shakespeare's time could be charged with ____ if he criticized the king or queen in his work.

• espionage

• hanging crime

• habius corpus

• sedition

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Mercutio, a character in "Romeo and Juliet" served as a ____ or contrasting character to Romeo in order to highlight Romeo's characteristics.

• foil

• denouement

• archetype

• saison

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The people who paid a penny to stand in the "Pit" at 16th and 17th century plays were called ___.

• la grange

• poppets

• groundlings

• intiates

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Shakespeare's first tragedy he wrote was "___."

• The Tempest

• As You Like It

• Romeo and Juliet

• Titus Andronicus

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Elizabethan people believed in ___, and that the dead walked the earth after midnight.

• omens

• life after death

• Christmas

• zombies

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All of Shakespeare's plays are written in what meter?

• dactylic hexameter

• spondaic tetrameter

• iambic pentameter

• trochaic triameter

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A movement during Shakespeare's time in art in literature that influenced all of his work was:

• Classicism

• Nihilism

• Anthropomorphism

• Realism

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A "folio" of Shakespeare's work means it is:

• a file saved on a jump drive

• a file saved in a library

• a printed copy with 8 pages

• a printed copy with 4 pages

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What was the name of the Roman playwright who invented a formula for tragedy (the formula Shakespeare copied)?

• Seneca

• Sophocles

• Euripedes

• Aeschylus

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What did Shakespeare and his peers study in public school by memorizing whole books?

• The Classics

• Algebra

• Religion

• Kinesthetics

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