Font size
WorksheetsShakespeare and Twelfth Night background notes
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 16mins
What is Shakespeare's birthday?
April 23, 1564
April 23, 1616
April 23, 1897
April 23, 1246
Name the city and country in which Shakespeare was born.
Stratford on Avon, England (UK)
London, England (UK)
Dublin, Ireland
Surrey, England (UK)
What were Shakespeare's parents' names?
John and Margaret
William and Mary
William and Anne
John and Mary
Name the woman that Shakespeare married
Anne Williams
Anne Hathaway
Mary Tudor
Elizabeth Hathaway
Choose all that apply: What are the names of Shakespeare's children?
Susanna
Judith
Hamnet
William
Juliet
Choose two monarchs who ruled during Shakespeare's time.
King Richard
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth I
King Edward I
King James I
What are the three main categories of Shakespearean plays?
Comedy
History
Tragedy
Science Fiction
Mystery
Shakespeare only wrote dramas.
True
False
Who of his children died?
(a)
23 April 1600
20 April 1616
23 April 1616
What is the name of the theatre associated with William Shakespeare?
The Royal Theatre
The London Theatre
The Globe Theatre
Shakespeare's Theatre
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
37
52
13
48
What group of actors did Shakespeare work with?
The Queen's Men
The Lord Chamberlain's Men
The King's Actors
The Queen's Acting Company
During Shakespeare's time, it was illegal for whom to appear on stage?
(a)
“Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, and (a) .”
What disease wiped out much of the population of the time?
pneumonia
mononucleic influenza
bubonic plague
streptococcus agalactiae
Which was NOT one of Shakespeare's top 4 comedies?
As You Like It
Much Ado About Nothing
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Twelfth Night
Macbeth
Twelfth Night was written in (a)
What holiday is the play’s title alluding to?
Thanksgiving
Epiphany
Valentine's Day
Christmas
Twelfth Night is the first night of...
Christmas season
Mardi Gras season
Lent
Advent
The fact that we (the audience) knows that Cesario is actually Viola (a woman) is an example of...
a couplet
dramatic irony
an allusion
wordplay
Viola exclaims, "Yet a barful strife! Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife," but Duke Orison cannot hear her. This is an example of...
an aside
a soliloquy
wordplay
an allusion
"Away before me to sweet beds of flowers!
Love thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers."
These two lines make up...
a couplet
an allusion
wordplay
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
The words in red make up an example of...
eye rhyme
ear rhyme
both eye rhyme and ear rhyme
“…Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions…
Are faded and gone;"
The words in red make up an example of...
eye rhyme
ear rhyme
both eye rhyme and ear rhyme
“The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
The words in red make up an example of...
eye rhyme
ear rhyme
both eye rhyme and ear rhyme
“Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe.
What is decreed must be, and be this so."
The words in red make up an example of...
eye rhyme
ear rhyme
both eye rhyme and ear rhyme
when a character gives a speech to the audience revealing thoughts and emotions
soliloquy
aside
a short comment to the audience heard by the audience but no other characters on stage
soliloquy
aside
