Shakespeare Background - 20

Question 1

What year did Shakespeare die?

Accepted Answer

1616

Question 2

The Elizabethan audience superstitiously believed that weather and other natural events in plays...

Accepted Answer

were symbolic of the plot or characters.

Question 3

In Elizabethan plays, the most important element of the drama was...

Accepted Answer

the words

Question 4

How many iambs does a line of perfect iambic pentameter contain?

Accepted Answer

five

Question 5

The language of everyday, ordinary speech is ___________.

Accepted Answer

prose

Question 6

A concentrated and heightened form of language, produced through rhythm and sound...

Accepted Answer

poetry

Question 7

the use of a regular rhythm pattern in language

Accepted Answer

meter

Question 8

During the English Renaissance, actors were...

Accepted Answer

not highly esteemed.

Question 9

Where was Shakespeare born?

Accepted Answer

Stratford-upon-Avon

Question 10

The English Renaissance was a time of...

Accepted Answer

immense creativity in the arts.

Question 11

The two monarchs who liked Shakespeare's plays

Accepted Answer

Queen Elizabeth and King James I

Question 12

Theater spectators who stood on the ground in front of the stage

Accepted Answer

groundlings

Question 13

William Shakespeare lived and wrote during the...

Accepted Answer

Elizabethan Era

Question 14

Shakespeare wrote ______ plays and __________ sonnets.

Accepted Answer

37; 154

Question 15

Shakespeare was a member of what theatrical company?

Accepted Answer

The King's Men

Question 16

All of the following are reasons why Shakespeare is difficult to understand EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

confusing topics and ideas

Question 17

Who said that Shakespeare was "not for an age, but for all time"?

Accepted Answer

Ben Jonson

Question 18

What year was William Shakespeare born?

Accepted Answer

1564

Question 19

Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called _______.

Accepted Answer

blank verse

Question 20

During the Renaissance, who discovered that the sun was the center of the universe?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

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