WorksheetsTwelfth Night lit
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How does the play begin?
a)
With a rad party
b)
With a solemn funeral
c)
With a dramatic shipwreck
d)
With a boozy dinner
2.
What is a definition for dramatic irony?
a)
Information that the audience knows but characters do not
b)
A character feigns ignorance
c)
An emotional outburst from a character about information they now know
d)
Information the characters know but the audience do not
3.
What is not an example of dramatic irony in 'Twelfth Night'?
a)
Orsino doesn't know Cesario is really a woman
b)
Olivia doesn't know Orsino lusts for her
c)
Sir Andrew mistakes Sebastian for Cesario
d)
Malvolio doesn't know Sir Topas is actually Feste
4.
The impossible love triangle is between:
a)
Orsino, Sebastian, Malvolio
b)
Orsino, Olivia, Viola
c)
Sebastian, Viola, Olivia
d)
Feste, Fabian, Valentine
5.
What is a feature used in the play?
a)
Noir
b)
Slapstick
c)
Tragedy
d)
Mistaken identity
6.
Iambic pentameter is:
a)
daDUMda daDUMda
b)
daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM
c)
the rhyming sound of two vowels
d)
the same sound, repeated five times in a line
7.
Which is not an example of iambic rhythm:
a)
For the love o' God, peace!
b)
What would my lord, but that he may not have,
c)
'Be not afraid of greatness:
d)
To spite a raven's heart within a dove.
8.
What is a convention of Elizabethan Theatre?
a)
Stage Directions
b)
Minimal Lighting/ Sound
c)
Large Costume/Set
d)
Song and Dance
9.
Two lines that end in the same sound is a:
a)
rhyming couplet
b)
double rhyming
c)
alliteration
d)
assonance
10.
Which is not an example of a rhyming couplet?
a)
Enough: no more/as it was before
b)
tortured me/have lost thee!
c)
the wind and the rain/our play is done
d)
I do love/within a dove
11.
Which is NOT true about the play “Twelfth Night’?
a)
It is one of Shakespeare’s most musical plays in parallel with ‘The Tempest’
b)
It broke playwriting convention by having the climax of events, denouement and resolution in Act 5
c)
It is the only play of Shakespeare to have an alternate title “What You Will”
d)
It is the only Shakespeare play to feature cross-dressing.
12.
Why, in the twelfth night, was there minimal lighting?
a)
Because that’s what Shakespeare wrote
b)
The play was set during the night
c)
Because the sun had to light the stage
d)
Because the cast thought they looked better under natural lighting
13.
What is an Aside?
a)
When a character stands to the side
b)
When a character tells the audience what is happening but the players don’t know
c)
When a character says “Aside”
d)
When a character runs through the audience
14.
How does the Twelfth Night open?
a)
“If Music be the food of love, play on;”
b)
“To be or not to be? That is the question;”
c)
“What is your parentage?”
d)
“Good Madam, hear me speak”
15.
What is stagecraft?
a)
The class system in theatre
b)
The creative work that happens behind the scenes, set and costume
c)
The backstage hands
d)
The Acting on stage
16.
The “Feast of Misrule” is a holiday from Elizabethan England where the social status’s of the kings court were switched (peasants became noblemen, noblemen became peasants). How is this NOT reflected in ‘Twelfth Night’?
a)
When Orsino desires Olivia
b)
When Feste is the smartest character in the play
c)
When Viola hides her status as an aristocrat to work for Orsino.
d)
When Toby and Maria marry.
17.
“Will you go hunt, my lord?” Curio asks Orsino. What is Orsino hunting?
a)
A Hart
b)
Olivia's love
c)
A stag
d)
Someone's love
18.
Who actually wrote the poem Malvolio discovers on the chair?
a)
Sir Toby
b)
Sir Andrew
c)
Mr Berryman
d)
Maria
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