Shakespeare Benchmark

Question 1

The maiden name of Shakespeare’s wife

Answer 1

Anne Hathaway

Question 2

Date of Shakespeare’s birth

Answer 2

April 23, 1564

Question 3

Date of Shakespeare’s death

Answer 3

April 23, 1616

Question 4

Shakespeare was supposedly buried in this church

Answer 4

Holy Trinity

Question 5

Shakespeare’s hometown

Answer 5

Stratford-upon Avon

Or just Stratford

Question 6

Shakespeare’s nickname

Answer 6

The bard

Question 7

The queen who ruled England for the last half of the 1500s

Answer 7

Queen Elizabeth 1

Question 8

Who succeeded Queen Elizabeth 1?

Answer 8

King James

Question 9

The two different names of Shakespeare’s theatrical company’s

Answer 9

Lord Chamberlains Men and Kings Men

Question 10

What was the first official collection of Shakespeare’s plays called?

Answer 10

First folio

Question 11

How many plays were in the first folio?

Answer 11

36

Question 12

What year was the first folio published?

Answer 12

1623

Question 13

Some scholars believe that Shakespeare’s plays were not written by Shakespeare but by…

Answer 13

Edward De Vere

Question 14

What year was the Globe theatre built?

Answer 14

1599

Question 15

What year did the Globe burn down?

Answer 15

1613

Question 16

How many people did the Globe seat?

Answer 16

About 3,000

Question 17

The river that flows passed the Globe

Answer 17

River Thames

Question 18

What were audience members who stood on the ground in front of the stage?

Answer 18

Ground lings

Question 19

The continuation of a sentence without without of pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

Answer 19

Enjambment

Question 20

A line with a pause at the end

Answer 20

End-stopped

Question 21

Soliloquy

Answer 21

A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage.

Question 22

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

ex. Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Answer 22

Alliteration

Question 23

in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

ex. Try to light the fire

Answer 23

Assonance

Question 24

Black flag hung outside theatre means that…

Answer 24

A tragedy is being performed

Question 25

White flag hung outside theatre means that…

Answer 25

A comedy is being performed

Question 26

Red flag hung outside theatre means that…

Answer 26

A history is being performed

Question 27

Example of a tragedy

Answer 27

King Lear
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Othello

Question 28

Example of a comedy

Answer 28

The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummers Night Dream
The Tempest
As You Like It
The Taming of the Shrew

Question 29

Example of a history

Answer 29

Henry V
Henry VI
King John

Question 30

a remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play

Answer 30

Aside

Question 31

The area under the stage that connects to the trap door.

Answer 31

Hell

Question 32

Roof over stage; was put in place to make performing in different weather easier. Could also make “flying” entrances with wire

Answer 32

The heavens

Question 33

Recurring theme

ex. Fate/free will
Light/dark
Young/old

Answer 33

Motif