Deck

Question 1

A: If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die…
B: Will you go hunt my lord?

Answer 1

A: Orsino
B: Curio
Twelfth Night 1.1
Orsino orders musicians to play music while he thinks about his unsuccessful attempt at getting Olivia’s love. Orsino’s attendant Curio asks if Orsino would go hunting.

Question 2

A: What country, friends, is this?
B: This is Illyria, lady.

Answer 2

A: Viola
B: Captain
Twelfth Night 1.2
Viola had just survived a shipwreck and was inquiring about the land she just landed on.

Question 3

A: …But I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
B: No question

Answer 3

A: Sir Andrew
B: Sir Toby
Twelfth Night 1.3
Andrew was put down by Olivia’s rejection and questions his own intelligence. Toby’s remark implies that he never had confidence in Andrew’s ability to win Olivia over in the first place.

Question 4

A: I’ll do my best
To woo your lady. – Yet, a barful strife!
Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.

Answer 4

A: Viola(Cesario)
Twelfth Night 1.4
Orsino ordered Viola to persuade Olivia into marrying him. Viola accepts, but secretly reveals her adoration for Orsino.

Question 5

A: Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent. Or to be turned away, is not that as good as a hanging to you?
B: Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Answer 5

A: Maria
B: Feste
Twelfth Night 1.5
Maria tries to break Feste’s character by attempting to scare him, telling him about the harsh punishments he would receive for his long absence. It did not seem to work, however.

Question 6

A: Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. God bless thee, Lady.
B: Take the Fool away.

Answer 6

A: Feste
B: Olivia
Twelfth Night 1.5
Olivia orders her attendants to take Feste away. Feste is unfazed and tells Olivia that she’s the fool.

Question 7

A: How now? Even so quickly may one catch the plague?

Answer 7

A: Olivia
Twelfth Night 1.5
Olivia notices that she has fallen in love with Cesario, (and orders Malvolio to “return” him a ring that he supposedly lost.)

Question 8

A: O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.

Answer 8

A: Viola
Twelfth Night 2.2
Viola realizes the love triangle that’s forming between her, Orsino, and Olivia. She panics and decides to not do anything about the situation, and let time sort it out.

Question 9

A: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Answer 9

A: Sir Toby
Twelfth Night 2.3
Sir Toby, in a drunken state, speaks to Malvolia and mocks him for being a boring and stiff person, and that ale and cakes would not disappear just because he wants them to.

Question 10

A: She pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.

Answer 10

A: Viola
Twelfth Night 2.4
Orsino asks Viola about her father’s daughter’s love story. Viola answers that she never confessed her love, but sat silently and smiling at grief. Viola knows that the daughter is herself, but Orsino does not know.

Question 11

A: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.

Answer 11

A: Malvolio
Twelfth Night 2.5
The words are from a letter, disguised as Olivia’s own writing, but is actually written by Maria. Malvolio reads the letter, thinking that these words of admiration are describing him.

Question 12

A: Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun. It shines everywhere…
B: Nay, an thou pass upon me, I’ll no more with thee. Hold, there’s expenses for thee.

Answer 12

A: Feste
B: Cesario
Twelfth Night 3.1
Cesario encounters Feste playing his tabor, Cesario is confused whether she is Lady Olivia’s fool or Duke Orsino’s fool (because he saw Feste with both of them.) Feste answers with another witty remark about how foolishness exists everywhere in the world.

Question 13

A: If this were being acted out on a stage, I would complain that it was unrealistic.

Answer 13

A: Fabian
Malvolio has just made a fool of himself in front of Olivia. He storms off after he discovers it was the doings of Maria, Toby, Fabian. Fabian was so amused by Malvolio’s humiliation that he couldn’t believe it was real.

Question 14

A: Prove true, imagination, oh, prove true,
That I, dear brother, be now ta’en for you!

Answer 14

A: Viola
Twelfth Night 3.4
Antonio mistakens Cesario for Sebastian, and scorns him for his betrayal. Cesario inferred from his words that her brother might still be alive, and wishes that she is truly being mistaken for her brother.

Question 15

One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons! A natural perspective, that is and is not!

Answer 15

A: Orsino
Twelfth Night 5.1
For the first time, Cesario and Sebastian appears in front of others at the same time. Orsino expresses his shock and amazement, exclaiming that it is an optical illusion.

Question 16

A: …And so—what goes around comes around.
B: I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you.

Answer 16

A: Feste
B: Malvolio
Twelfth Night 5.1
Feste speaking to Malvolio, and he refers to a past insult that Malvolio made to Feste— “Madam, why do you laugh at such an empty-headed villain?” Malvolio swears to get his revenge on all of the people involved in the farce.

Question 17

A: Cesario, come –
For so you shall be, while you are a man.
But when in other habits you are seen,
Orsino’s mistress, and his fancy’s queen.

Answer 17

A: Orsino
Twelfth Night 5.1
After finding out that Viola(Cesario) is actually a woman, Orsino promises to marry Viola.

Question 18

A: Nothing.
B: Nothing can come of nothing, speak again.

Answer 18

A: Cordelia
B: King Lear
King Lear 1.1
King Lear implies that Cordelia would have to flatter him with words to inherit land from him, but Cordelia refuses to make empty claims and vain praise in exchange for land.

Question 19

A: Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Answer 19

A: Edmund
King Lear 1.2
Edmund complains about the unfair treatment given to him because he was a bastard. He forges a letter in order to turn Gloucester against his brother, the legitimate son, Edgar.

Question 20

A: How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

Answer 20

A: King Lear
King Lear 1.4
Goneril scolds Lear and his knights for disrupting the peace in her house and demands Lear to reduce the number of knights with him from 100 to 50. Shocked at the drastic change of her temperament, Lear rages and curses her that she too experience what it’s like to have a thankless child.

Question 21

A: You shouldn’t have gotten old until you’d also gotten wise.

Answer 21

A: Fool
King Lear 1.5
The Fool has a witty exchange with the now powerless King Lear. He subtlety hint at the King’s lack of wisdom with this phrase.

Question 22

A: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout. Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!

Answer 22

A: King Lear
King Lear 3.2
Outside in the elements, and no longer trusting that the heavens will bring justice and order, King Lear urges the storm to rage on and flood the world.

Question 23

A: I am a man
More sinned against than sinning.

Answer 23

A: King Lear
King Lear 3.2
Outside in the elements still, King Lear makes this remark as he had previously referred to himself as a kind father, and yet, he is being mistreated by his own daughters.

Question 24

A: As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods. They kill us for their sport.

Answer 24

A: Gloucester
King Lear 4.1
The blinded Gloucester thought about Edgar and the awful mistake he had made in making him his enemies. Gloucester makes this remark to describe the brutality of fate and the indifferent universe.

Question 25

A: So distribution should undo excess,
And each man have enough.

Answer 25

A: Gloucester
King Lear 4.1
The devastated Gloucester has lost his will to live, and gives his money to Edgar(disguised as a beggar who’s mad).

Question 26

A: Go to, they are not men o’ their words. They told me I was everything. ‘Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

Answer 26

A: King Lear
King Lear 4.6
King Lear, insane and wearing flowers, encounters Edgar and Gloucester on a hill, after Gloucester’s attempted suicide. King Lear talks more about how he was tricked by his daughters’ sweet but fake words.

Question 27

A: No further, sir. A man may rot even here.
B: …Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither.

Answer 27

A: Gloucester
B: Edgar
King Lear 5.2
King Lear’s army has been defeated, he and his daughters captured. Gloucester again falls into depressive thoughts, wishing to die in place, but Edgar reminds him that a man cannot decide his circumstances, it’s just the way life goes.

Question 28

A: When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down and ask of thee forgiveness.

Answer 28

A: King Lear
King Lear 5.3
Edmund orders King Lear and Cordelia be taken to prison. Cordelia asks if they should go see his daughters. But King Lear says no, and talks about the wonderful time they’ll have in prison. Cordelia asking Lear to give his blessing to her marriage and Lear asking for Cordelia’s forgiveness being two of those wonderful experiences they’ll have.

Question 29

A: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all?

Answer 29

A: King Lear
King Lear 5.3
King Lear griefs over Cordelia’s death.

Question 30

A: We that are young. Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

Answer 30

A: Edgar
King Lear 5.3
King Lear dies of grief over the loss of his loyal companions in Edgar’s care. Edgar’s line commemorating the life of King Lear puts an ending to the play

Question 31

A: Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches
after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.

Answer 31

A: Prince Henry(Hal)
King Henry IV 1.2
Prince Henry speaks to Falstaff, scolding him for being an clumsy man who is alcoholic and overweight.

Question 32

A: Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
B: I do, I will.

Answer 32

A: Falstaff
B: Prince Henry
John Falstaff tries to convince Prince Henry not to banish him, for he will miss out on all the good qualities that old Falstaff brings to his life.

Question 33

A: And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil. By telling truth. Tell truth and shame the devil.If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,And I’ll be sworn I have power to shame him hence. O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!

Answer 33

A: Henry Hotspur
King Henry IV 3.1
Henry Hotspur meets with Owen Glendower and Edmund Mortimer. Hotspur mocks his uncle Glendower for thinking he’s special because allegedly “the sky was in flames” at the time of his birth, and also for believing he can summon and command devils.

Question 34

A: This sickness doth infect
The very lifeblood of our enterprise.

Answer 34

A: Henry Hotspur
King Henry IV 4.1
Hotspur receives a letter from his father Earl of Northumberland about him being sick and not being able to join in their military effort. Hotspur remarks on the negative effects this has on their army and their plan.

Question 35

A: O Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth. I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles thou hast won of me.

Answer 35

A: Henry Hotspur
King Henry IV 5.4
Hotspur speaks to Prince Henry upon being mortally wounded by him.

Question 36

A: Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven.Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remembered in thy epitaph.

Answer 36

A: Prince Harry
King Henry IV 5.4
King Henry IV covers the now perished Hotspur’s face with his scarf, and says a final few words, paying respect to his rival.

Question 37

A: The king’s son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring—then, like reeds, not hair—
Was the first man that leaped, cried, “Hell is empty And all the devils are here.”

Answer 37

A: Ariel
The Tempest 1.2
After sending a storm that caused King Alonso’s ship to break apart, Ariel reports the chaotic scene on King Alonso’s ship to King Prospero.

Question 38

A: Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on: and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Answer 38

A: Prospero
The Tempest 4.1
After giving his blessings to Ferdinand and Miranda’s marriage, Prospero says these words to Ferdinand.

Question 39

A; Oh, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ’t

Answer 39

A: Miranda
Prospero pulls down the curtain that is blocking Miranda from seeing other human beings such as Gonzalo, Alonso, Sebastiain, etc. Miranda marvels at the sight of so many beautiful looking creatures together.