Exam Prep 2

Question 1

How does Shakespeare challenge the notion that class roles are fixed and immutable?

Accepted Answer

Feste, who is a fool, proves himself to be the wisest character

Question 2

What is malapropisms?

Accepted Answer

misusing a similar sounding word

Question 3

Dramatic irony occurs when the audience has knowledge that the characters do not, creating tension or humour

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

How does Viola move freely in a male dominated world?

Accepted Answer

Viola disguises as Ceasario

Question 5

Auggie’s parents discuss whether he should go to school, and his mother worries about how other kids will treat him

Accepted Answer

Foreshadowing

Question 6

How does Shakespeare suggest that divisions between male and female may be more artificial than society assumes?

Accepted Answer

Viola's ability to seamlessly step into a male role

Question 7

What does the sentence "transforms him from a pompous figure into a pitiable one" mean?

Accepted Answer

Transforms him from being a self important figure to a pathetic one

Question 8

Wonder frequently uses Augie's internal monologue to show...

Accepted Answer

his fears and hopes

Question 9

A simile uses like or as

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

The play does not imply that gender is a social construct.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

Which 2 are examples of symbolism?

Accepted Answer

The precepts in Mr. Browne’s class, Auggie’s astronaut helmet

Question 12

Viola, despite posing as a servant, gains influence over Orsino, demonstrating that...

Accepted Answer

intelligence and charm can transcend social rank

Question 13

What are the effects of a soliloquy?

Accepted Answer

adds depth to plays theme

Question 14

Auggie is the only character to have moments of internal reflection

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

"The reader knows that Julian is deliberately being mean to Auggie long before Auggie fully realises it."

Accepted Answer

Dramatic Irony

Question 16

"“If music be the food of love, play on; / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, /The appetite may sicken, and so die"

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Metaphor

Question 17

What does the phrase "his emotions shift conveniently" mean?

Accepted Answer

his feelings change in a way that benefits him or suits the situation

Question 18

Why is Orsino the epitome of the melancholic lover?

Accepted Answer

He indulges in his own sorrow., His affliction seems more like self-indulgence than genuine suffering.

Question 19

What does the removal of Viola's disguise symbolize?

Accepted Answer

restoration of order and truth

Question 20

Wordplay involves the clever or humorous use of words, using only like or as, including puns (play on words)

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

Why does Shakespeare use dramatic irony?

Accepted Answer

to engage the audience to make them complicit in the deception andconfusion

Question 22

A metaphor uses like or as

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

Why does Shakespeare use foreshadowing?

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to ensure that the play’s resolution feels natural and satisfying

Question 24

Which 2 are examples of a soliloquies?

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I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness/Wherein the pregnant enemy does much

Question 25

Foreshadowing hints at events that will occur later on in the play

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

What actions within the play underscore the class differences?

Accepted Answer

Malvolio's suffering is treated with cruelty unlike that of the nobles.

Question 27

What does this line by Duke Orsino "If music be the food of love, play on," suggest?

Accepted Answer

Duke Orsino is indulgent and has a self absorbed obsession.

Question 28

How does Shakespeare raise questions about the nature of attraction and whether it is determined solely by gender?

Accepted Answer

Olivia unknowingly falls in love with a woman., Orsino appears to develop an emotional connection with his male page.

Question 29

She never told her love, / But let concealment, like a worm i’ the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek" is a metaphor

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

What does the term 'gaslight' mean?

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when someone makes another person doubt their own perceptions or thoughts

Question 31

Auggie describes his face as making other kids react "like they’d just stepped on a live bomb."

Accepted Answer

Simile

Question 32

"The rain it raineth every day," symbolizes the inevitability of sorrow and change.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

The play also raises questions about how gender is performed rather than innately possessed.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

Why is Viola a more sympathetic figure?

Accepted Answer

Her longing and emotional distress is more profound than Orsino's woes.

Question 35

In the phrase "Orsino’s poetic musings on love" what does "musings" mean?

Accepted Answer

thoughts

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