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Shakespeare's plays fall into three main categories, namely...

Shakespeare's historical plays often focus on...

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1
Shakespeare's historical plays often focus on...
French noblemen.
...German kings.
... English monarchs.
... English poets.
2
Shakespeare's plays fall into three main categories, namely...
poems, novels and plays
comedy, history and geography
tragedy, comedy and romance
tragedy, comedy and history
3
In his plays and poems, Shakespeare sometomes used neologism, which means that...
... biblical allusions
... he used Greek terms.
... he used words from other languages.
... he invented new words.
4
The "tragic flaw" is...
... the death of a main character in a play.
... a character weakness of the protagonist in a play.
... a tragic incidence that delays the happy ending of a comedy.
...the sad ending of a tragedy.
5
A soliloquy is...
... the most important dialogue of a play.
... the turning point of the play.
... a long monoloque delivered by one character.
... the end scence of a tragedy.
6
In Shakespeare's time, acting and the theatre in general were regarded as...
...a threat to the social order.
...blasphemous and offensive.
...something only for the nobility.
...the highest form of art.
7
Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in...
... blank verse.
... unrhymed iambic pentameter.
.... rhymed couplets.
... trochaic meter.
8
Shakespeare's works include at least...
8 plays and 16 sonnets
15 plays, 3 novels and 10 poems
37 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 narrative poems
20 plays, 57 sonnets and 6 short stories