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Shakespeare's life
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1
Cannon balls were rolled down stairs to create
thunder
hail
chaos
lightening
2
Shakespeare put very little of this in his plays.
death
plot
scenery
love
3
This spread through Europe twice during Shakespeare's lifetime
The Red Death
Small pox
Scarlet Fever
Bubonic Plague
4
Shakespeare's mother was
Mary Shakespeare
Anne Boleyn
Anne Hathaway
Jane Seymore
5
Because women were not allowed to act,
boys played women's parts
plays only had male characters
men played women
little girls played the women
6
A fourteen-line poem is called a
sonnet
couplet
cinquain
quatrain
7
Groundlings paid a penny to stand here to watch the plays
orchestra
balcony
amphitheater
pit
8
When an actor is on the stage with other characters and delivers a long speech, it is called a
soliloquey
solo
monostat
monologue
9
The city where Shakespeare spent most of his life was
Oxford
London
Stratford
Cambridge
10
The language in this is most like the language of Shakespeare.
King James Bible
The Gutenburg Bible
The Magna Carta
The Declaration of Independence
11
The play which made Shakespeare famous was _______because it mixed tragedy and comedy.
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing
Macbeth
12
Who was Shakespeare's wife?
Christina Marlowe
Anne Hathaway
Lillian Davis
Jane Seymour
13
Shakespeare was known as
The Soul of Avon
The Great Sanini
The Minstral of Avon
The Bard of Avon
14
Shakespeare's main rival was
John Donne
Roger Bacon
Christopher Marlowe
Percy Jackson
15
Acting companies were made up of
12-14 boys
12-14 men and boys
both men and women
15 men
16
The plague was spread by _____ on rats.
whiskers
germs
fleas
lice
17
When the audience didn't like a play, they would
throw rotten tomatoes
moon the actors
demand their money back
leave
18
The name of this period that was used across Europe was _______ because of the arts.
The Middle Ages
The Dark Ages
The Classical Period
Renaissance
19
The acting company that Shakespeare was a member of was called _____.
The Queen's Men
The Beatles
Elizabethan Men
The King's Men
20
The era was named after this famous queen
Victoria
Katherine of Aragon
Anne
Elizabeth I
21
This river runs through the town of Stratford.
Avon
Seine
Nile
Tygart
22
Shakespeare was married at age
18
22
17
26
23
Queen Elizabeth I was the daughter of
Henry VIII
Prince Caspian
Louis the XIV
King Leopold
24
The theater most associated with Shakespeare is
The Globe
The Colisseum
The Swan
The Rose
25
This was a history play about a Roman emperor
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Nero the Great
Macbeth
26
A bard is a
director
traveling salesman
storyteller
actor
27
What is it called when actors have more than one part?
Soliloquey
Monologue
Scenery
Doubling
28
This era was known as
The Age of Chivalry
The Elizabethan
The Medieval Age
The Victorian Era
29
When an actor whispers something to the audience or another actor, it is called an ____.
monoset
aside
sonnet
tutelage
30
When an actor stands alone on stage and gives a long speech, it is called a
monologue
solo
soliloquey
sonnet
31
What were three forms of entertainment during this time period?
Bear baiting
witch burning
playing polo
Chicken fights
32
Plays were performed in the _______
morning
afternoon
night
evening
33
Actors would sometimes
borrow costumes from the audience
sing a ballad
moon the audience