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Twelfth Night

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who speaks the line 'O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou' ?

a)

Olivia

b)

Orsino

c)

Viola

d)

Malvolio

2.

Do ​ (a)   make an ​ (b)   of my ​ (c)   house?

Choose from the below words
ye
alehouse
lady's
mistress's
you
3.

What's the missing word in this line from Malvolio? 'My lady _______ me tell you'

a)

bade

b)

asked

c)

wished

d)

implored

4.

In what Act and Scene does this line from Olivia appear?
'Why, how dost thou, man? what is the matter with thee?'

a)

Act 1 Scene 1

b)

Act 1 Scene 5

c)

Act 3 Scene 4

d)

Act 4 Scene 2

5.

Which quotes use a metaphor?

a)

the man is tainted in's wits.

b)

If music be the food of love; play on!

c)

my desires, like fell and cruel hounds

d)

Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth

6.

I am as ​ (a)   as he,

If ​ (b)   and ​ (c)   madness ​ (d)   be. - Olivia, Act 3, Scene 4

Choose from the below words
mad
sad
merry
equal
7.

Who speaks this line in Act 1 Scene 5?

'But, if you were the devil, you are fair.'

a)

Orsino

b)

Viola

c)

Olivia

d)

Malvolio

8.

What devices are used in this line from Malvolio in Act 2 Scene 3 to exaggerate his disapproval?

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor

time in you?

a)

Allteration

b)

triplet

c)

rhetorical question

d)

Plosives

9.

In Act 1 Scene 5, Viola says 'Write loyal cantons of contemned love'.

The adjective 'Contemed' is closest in meaning to...

a)

rejected

b)

beautiful

c)

great

d)

powerful

10.

Which line best illustrates a character over-indulging in the idea of love?

a)

Make me a willow cabin at your gate - Viola, 1.5

b)

acting this in an obedient hope - Malvolio, 5.1

c)

Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 

The appetite may sicken, and so die - Orsino, 1.1

d)

mine is all as hungry as the sea,

And can digest as much - Orsino, 2.4

11.

Match the following line to the character

a)

Made the most notorious geck and gull - 5.1

1.

Malvolio

b)

Above my fortunes, yet my state is well: 

I am a gentleman - 1.5

2.

Viola

c)

Can bide the beating of so strong a passion

As love doth give my heart - 2.4

3.

Orsino

d)

He is sad and civil,

And suits well for a servant with my fortunes - 3.4

4.

Olivia

12.

'...to gabble like

tinkers at this time of night?'

What devices are used in this line from Malvolio in Act 2 Scene 3?

a)

zoomorphism

b)

metaphor

c)

simile

d)

onomatopoeia

13.

Who is being referred to in this line from Act 1 Scene 1?

like a cloistress, she will veiled walk 

(a)  

14.

What does this line from Viola in Act 2 Scene 4 suggest about her love for Orsino?

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,

Feed on her damask cheek

a)

She is suffering in silence with her deep, unrequited love for Orsino

b)

She is trying to stop loving Orsino

c)

She is outwardly declaring her love for Orsino

d)

She is comparing her love to a small and insignificant being.

15.

In Act 5 Scene 1 Olivia says 'Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge 

Of thine own cause' to Malvolio. This tells us...

a)

Malvolio should ignore what happened

b)

Malvolio will take the others to a judge

c)

Malvolio can't change the past

d)

She will give Malvolio the opportunity to get justice.

16.

Is this short monologue by Viola in Act 1, Scene 5 an example or prose or verse?

VIOLA 

Make me a willow cabin at your gate, 

And call upon my soul within the house; 

Write loyal cantons of contemned love 

And sing them loud even in the dead of night; 

Halloo your name to the reverberate hills 

And make the babbling gossip of the air 

Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest 

Between the elements of air and earth, 

But you should pity me!

a)

Prose

b)

Verse

17.

Match the following

a)

Verse

1.

Used for high emotion or drama

b)

Prose

2.

Used for comic moments

c)

Malvolio

3.

Speaks in both verse and prose

d)

Orsino

4.

Tends to speak only in verse

e)

Sir Andrew

5.

Speaks mostly in prose