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WorksheetsShakespeare Review One
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 15mins
How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write (not in his plays)?
162
198
154
57
What is the name of Shakespeare's "lost play" (we don't have the script)?
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Cardenio
The Comedy of Errors
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A line of iambic pentameter has ___ syllables (regular).
14
10
17
5
How many lines are in a sonnet?
5
10
12
14
"The Seven Ages" speech is from the play ___.
Hamlet
As You Like It
Much Ado About Nothing
Macbeth
Shakespeare's comedies often include ___ (choose the most correct answer).
Marriages, shipwrecks, and clowns.
Knights
Many different cities
Duels to the death
Iambic pentameter, when read or spoken, sounds like a _____ (choose the best answer).
Snare Drum
Dance
Heartbeat
Trumpet
What are the four imaginative centers we discussed in class?
Head, Shoulders, Knees, Toes
Head, Heart, Hands, Feet
Head, Heart, Gut, Feet
Head, Heart, Gut, Groin
In what year was Shakespeare born?
1524
1564
1654
1624
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
100-120
37-39
50-60
23-27
Which Shakespeare play features a character with the head of a donkey?
Julius Caesar
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Romeo and Juliet
_____ was the nephew of a famous Russian playwright with the same last name. He came up with the idea of imaginative centers. He left Russia and moved to the US and Germany to teach acting.
Jack Nicholson
Michael Chekhov
Bertrand Russell
Uta Hagen
_____ was the name of a Roman writer who influenced Shakespeare, especially in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.
Marc Antony
Decius Brutus
Gaius Marius
Plautus
The play _____ features a song with the lyrics, "Who is Silvia?" and includes the characters Proteus and Valentine.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Gentlemen of London
The Two Gentlemen of Paris
The Two Gentlemen of Barcelona
This play includes the character Shylock, who demands a pound of flesh from someone who owes him a debt. It also includes a famous speech with the words, "Hath not a jew eyes?"
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Merchant of Venice
The Other Merchant of Venice
The Third Noble Kinsmen
This play features Benedict and Beatrice, who bicker (argue) with each other throughout the play, then fall in love. A movie of the play includes actor Keanu Reeves.
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Much Ado About Nothing
Titus Andronicus
What is the name of the theater (one of them) in which Shakespeare's plays were originally performed?
The Dome
The Globe
The Black Hatter
The Foggy Cap
How many ages are in the speech, "All the World's a Stage?
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
"Shall I compare thee to a _____ day?"
summer's
autumn's
winter's
spring
This play features two sets of twins, and was influenced by Plautus.
The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Terrors
The Comedy of Mirrors
The Comedy of Spheres
If I was asked right now, I can name four or five of Shakespeare plays.
No.
Maybe.
Probably.
Of course!
Shakespeare's language is difficult for me to understand, even with translations into modern English, and class discussion.
It's very easy.
It's somewhat easy.
It's a bit difficult.
Yes, it's very hard.
I know how to mark a piece of Shakespeare's writing, identifying stressed and unstressed syllables (dee-Dum) in iambic pentameter. Hint: *Think about "Down-Up, Down, Up"
I can't do that.
Only with a lot of help.
Maybe, but it might be hard.
No problem.
What words comes to mind when you think about Shakespeare?
What is one quality (kindness, intelligence, etc.) or skill (i.e. problem-solving) you think is needed to understand Shakespeare's language. its mechanics (punctuation, meter, etc.), or to act in one of the character roles he wrote?
When analyzing with a script to prepare a performance, we can mark beats. A beat is ____.
A unit of thought or emotion (likely marked by a change in tactics; what someone does to achieve a goal).
Something a drummer makes.
A red vegetable.
Something that tells you when to come onto and leave a stage.
What word comes to mind when you think about Shakespeare's sonnets (the work we did with them, or the sonnets themselves)?
I'm relaxed and comfortable while performing in front of my teacher and classmates in this class.
Totally False (I'm not comfortable and relaxed).
Not very true.
Kind of true.
Very true (I'm very comfortable and relaxed).
The homework for this class, so far, is very difficult.
It's so easy.
It's not bad at all.
It's hard, but with effort I can do it.
It's very, very hard.
If you were going to watch one Shakespeare play, which Shakespeare play would you watch, and why? *hint: you can use your homework to help
I need more practice with imaginative centers (head, heart, gut, groin) before I can comfortable use them as a technique for performance.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly Agree
At the end of a Shakespearean sonnet, there is a ______.
Rhyming couplet
Rhyming quintet
Rhyming triad
Rhyming monad
Which of these people was not included in the presentation as someone who wrote sonnets?
e.e. cummings
Petrarch
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robin Williams
Shakespeare's sonnets seem to tell, or at least suggest, a story (or emotional arc) which include the characters _____.
The knight, the lord, the lady
The fair youth, the dark lady, the poet
The peasant, the rogue, the scholar
The sojourner, the bard, the king
