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What do you know about William Shakespeare
What do you know about William Shakespeare
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Pre-Test Game for introducing Shakespeare
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1
The picture here is of which famous theatre in Shakespeare's time, now recreated in London?
The Shakespearean Theatre
The World
The Globe
The Roofless Cabin
2
Laws in Shakespeare’s time prohibited...
Playgoers from throwing objects at the stage
Playwrights from acting in their own plays
Women appearing on stage
Animal fighting
3
What is a bard?
a professional storyteller (poet, writer)
an outdated word for 'beard'
an actor who plays the bad guy
a professional musician
4
Playhouses in Shakespeare’s time were located ...
in poor, rundown areas outside London city borders
in the popular downtown areas of London
in York, a city in Northern England
in an honored section outside London just for theatres
5
The time in which Shakespeare lived is known as the
Elizabethan Era
because ...
England was ruled by Queen Elizabeth I
Shakespeare's mother was named Elizabeth
Shakespeare's wife was named Elizabeth
England was ruled by Queen Elizabeth II
6
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw beauty till this night." This is a quote from?
Romeo & Juliet
Othello
Hamlet
Macbeth
7
A character speaking to oneself revealing their deepest thoughts, feelings, secrets or plans is called...
Dialogue
Dramatic Irony
An aside
A soliloquy
8
When a character steps aside on stage to deliver a comment to the audience, this is called ...
a monologue
a soliloquy
a dialogue
an aside
9
In Shakespeare’s time, actors were regarded by city leaders as...
Well-respected artists
Political allies
Superstars and idols
Outlaws and troublemakers
10
Shakespeare was born in ...
1764
1464
1664
1564
11
William Shakespeare is called “The Bard of Avon” because ...
he was a descendant from the noble family of Avon
he attended the Avon Theatre School
he was born in the town of Stratford on the River Avon
he once sold Avon books
12
In theater "groundlings" were...
spectators who paid a penny to stand in front of the stage
small mammals used on stage
playgoers who cleaned the ground in order to watch the play for free
stagehands
13
Shakespeare is credited with having invented many phrases. Which one did he
NOT
come up with?
To be in cahoots with someone
Love is blind
Clothes make the man
The green-eyed monster
14
Which is
NOT
a reason The Globe was closed during Shakespeare's time?
Puritans declaring playhouses were sinful
Remodeling to add a roof
Rebuilding due to a fire
Outbreaks of the Plague
15
"A rhythmic pattern in poetry of five consecutive unstressed and stressed syllables" is called ... ?
a couplet
a sonnet
iambic pentameter
a rhyme
