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Grade 10 English 2025 Elizabethan Theatre Quiz
Grade 10 English 2025 Elizabethan Theatre Quiz
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1
What sort of audience did Shakespeare (mostly) write for?
Posh, upper-class nobles
Working class people and the poor
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What was the name of Shakespeare's theatre?
The Swan
The Globe
The Theatre
The Rose
3
Why was theatre banned in London in 1596?
The Puritans didn't approve of it
Residents complained that theatres were too noisy and attracted criminals
To reduce the spread of bubonic plague
All of the above
4
What did poor people do for fun back then?
Cockfighting, bear baiting, and the theatre
Poetry and music recitals
5
What colour flag would the Globe Theatre have flown for a performance of 'Macbeth'?
Blue
Black
Red
White
6
Without fancy stage sets and lighting rigs, how could the audience get a sense of location and atmosphere in the plays?
They had to guess
Writers used lots of description and imagery in the plays' dialogue
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Theatres had open roofs and plays were staged during the day because there was no artificial light other than candles
False
True
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'Elizabethan' refers to...
A time when Elizabeth was the most popular girls' name
The reign of Queen Elizabeth I
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Simple sets and natural lighting meant that settings, scenery, and mood had to be created by the words in the script
False
True
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It was illegal for women to perform in plays because theatre was seen as immoral and crude.
True
False
