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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night revision
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1
Identify the two men living with Countess Olivia...
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Sir Andy Burp
Sir Tobias August
Sir Toby Belch
2
Twinning proves the only way to resolve the classic love triangle on which the plot is based
False
True
3
Throughout tricks, confusion due to cross dressing and dramatic irony create...
love
humour
anger
confusion
4
Who said, "Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit"?
Viola
Orsino
Olivia
Malvolio
5
How is dramatic effect created in this play which is very different to many of the other plays?
the use of a fool
clever lighting
the use of a narrator throughout
costume requirements clearly mentioned
6
Sections of the play dominated by slapstick humour or sexual innuendo are written in...
punctuation
poetry
paragraphs
prose
7
What is iambic pentameter?
5 stresses - 10 syllables
10 stresses-10 syllables
10 stresses - 5 syllables
5 stresses - 5 syllables
8
How does Shakespeare vary the pace in Twelfth Night
the shift between poetry and prose
Dramatic irony
Q&A sessions
Iambic pentameter
9
Who is Olivia's steward?
Malvolio
Malvella
Marvela
Marvolio
10
How many years has Olivia sworn to mourn her brother for?
6 years
2 years
9 years
7 years
11
The accumulation of punning and metaphors creates humour and pace
Agree
Maybe
Disagree
12
The songs have a theme of love...what type of love?
fraternal love
food being the music of love
doomed love
passionate love
13
At the end of Act 5, all is resolved with many marriages...who marries...identify all!
Sir Toby & Maria
Olivia & Sebastian
Antonio & Olivia
Viola & Orsino
14
Although a comedy, Twelfth Night also has dark moments...T/F?
True
False
15
What genre does Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' come under?
History
Tragedy
Morality
Comedy
16
How are the dark moments reinforced?
cross dressing
darkness
the use of the fool
melancholic music
17
Noble characters and those speaking of elevated themes, like love or death, speak in...
quatrains
rhyming verse
heroic couplets
blank verse
18
Where is the play set?
Lisbon
Illyria
Syria
Illinois
19
When is rhyme used in blank verse...choose two!
to create emphasis
to show love
to close a scene
to show the difference between blank verse and prose
20
Identify the two men living with Countess Olivia...
Sir Tobias August
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Sir Toby Belch
Sir Andy Burp
21
In the opening of Act 1, who is Duke Orsino in love with?
Sebastian
Viola
Cesario
Olivia
22
How does Maria vow to get revenge?
Lock him up
Forge love letters from Olivia
Make him write nonsense poetry
Make him Lord of Misrule
23
Who doesn't wish to marry Olivia in Act 3?
Sir Toby
Orsino
Sir Andrew
Malvolio
24
Although twinning is a device used throughout, how to the twins finally identify each other?
they just know
they look identical
the chorus sing the song
there is a lengthy Q&A session
25
What opens and closes the play?
Music
the same character
A chorus
An epilogue
26
All is well and happy and everyone leaves the stage, apart from Feste who happily sings
True
False
27
At the end of Act 3, what does Viola hope is true?
her brother is still alive, as Cesario
The ship has been fixed
That Olivia will marry Orsino
Malvolio is mad
28
Complete the quote: "If music be the food of _____, play on."
love
sex
sleep
lunch
29
What does Viola's disguise create?
mise en scene
dramatic irony
cross dressing
cruelty
30
The shift between poetry and prose allows the play to deal with...
themes of crossing dressing
high romance as well as slapstick.
trickery and confusion
class divisions in Elizabethan society
31
Comedies like Twelfth Night tend to have a greater mixture of poetry and prose than tragedies
False
True
32
Who vows to get revenge on Malvolio in Act 2?
Sebastian
Duke Orsino
Feste, Olivia's fool
Maria, Olivia's waiting woman
33
During the Elizabethan period, what did you appoint?
A Lady's Chamber
Lord of Misrule
A Lady's Maid
Lord of the Manor
34
Malvolio, flirts horribly and inappropriately with Olivia, behaving very strangely...
True
False
35
What do Viola and Orsino argue about in Act 2?
Whether Viola is a man or a woman
Whether men or women are more capable of the emotion love
Whether men are more capable than women
Whether the sun revolves around the Earth
36
What was Twelfth Night originally?
a play by Donne
a Christmas festival
a time of mischief and merrymaking
a religious service
