Shakespeare "Pop-Quiz"

Question 1

Where does our only knowledge of S. come from?

Answer 1

Church and legal documents and a few other remarks wrote about him by others during his lifetime

Question 2

S. was the _____ of ______ kids

Answer 2

3rd of 8

Question 3

S. was born c. ______ in ______ (_______)

Answer 3

April 23, 1564 in Stratford (100 miles NW of London)

Question 4

S.’s father :_____ was a ______ with _______. He was a _____ and a ______ at various times

Answer 4

John, shopkeeper, some importance in Stratford, justice of the peace, mayor

Question 5

S. when to ______ school and studied _____, _____, and _____

Answer 5

grammar, Latin grammar, Latin literature, and rhetoric

Question 6

S.’s wife was _____. They married when S. was _____. She is _______ years older than him.

Answer 6

Anne Hathaway, 18, 8

Question 7

When did S. move to London alone?

Answer 7

after his 2nd and 3rd children (twins)

Question 8

By 1592 S. was a _____ and a _____

Answer 8

actor and a playwright

Question 9

By 1594 S. was a charter member of _____, also known as _____. This was sponsored by _____. True or False: S. stayed with them for the rest of his career?

Answer 9

Lord Chamberlain’s Men, King’s Men, King James, True

Question 10

S. could provide plays _____ and was considered the ______

Answer 10

almost on demand, “ultimate professional writer”

Question 11

S. wrote ____ and _____

Answer 11

plays and poems

Question 12

R&J was written between _____ and _____

Answer 12

1594 and 1596

Question 13

In 1612, S. returned to Stratford with ____ plays under his belt. Name 6

Answer 13

37

Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth

Question 14

S. died on _____ at the age of ____

Answer 14

April 23, 1616 at the age of 52

Question 15

Where was S. buried? Have his remains ever been touched?

Answer 15

Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church; no

Question 16

S.’s ____ influenced how he wrote plays

Answer 16

theater

Question 17

In 1576 outside London, _____ built the first_____ in England. It was called _____. Before this, plays were in ____. There was a ____ and the audience would sit/stand in passage ways between rooms called _____

Answer 17

James Burbage, theater, “Theater”, courtyards of inns, temporary stage, balconies

Question 18

In 1599, S.”s company tore down the first theater and created ______. aka ______. It got this nickname when S. called it that in _____. It was ____, _____, had a _____ and a _____. There was an ____ stage with enter and exit doors on the ends. Above that there was a _____ known as the _____. There was also a _____ by the main stage

Answer 18

Globe Theater, The Wooden O, Henry V, round, three stories, large platform stage, open sky, inner, upper stage, balcony, trapdoor

Question 19

plays were put on in the ____

Answer 19

afternoon

Question 20

Though plays had a minimal set, there was _____ and ____. Also, no ____ would act in plays

Answer 20

elaborate costumes and banners, women.

Question 21

The Proscenium Stage had only an ______ and a _____

Answer 21

inner stage and a curtain

Question 22

“thrust (arena) stage” had audiences on ____ or _____ sides of the stage

Answer 22

3 or 4

Question 23

Stories move ____ from place to place

Answer 23

fast

Question 24

Though plays imitate the style of movies , why do they rarely work?

Answer 24

viewers want to take their time and watch the characters develop

Question 25

while movies are a ______, theater is a _______

Answer 25

visual medium, medium of words

Question 26

S. used _____ and _____ in his works of literature

Answer 26

puns and wordplay

Question 27

Romeo and Juliet is both _____ and _____

Answer 27

prose and poetry

Question 28

Blank verse

Answer 28

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 29

iambic pentameter

Answer 29

each unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. 5 iambic units per line

Question 30

couplet

Answer 30

used by S. in rhyme

is two consecutive lines of poetry that often rhyme and often punctuate a character’s exit or signals the end of a scene

Question 31

lines in poetry are either _____ or _____

Answer 31

end-stopped or run-on

Question 32

end-stop lines

Answer 32

have punctuation

Question 33

run-on lines

Answer 33

have no punctuation

Question 34

‘a

Answer 34

he

Question 35

a’

Answer 35

on

Question 36

an’ [or] and

Answer 36

if

Question 37

anon

Answer 37

soon; right away; coming

Question 38

but

Answer 38

if; exceptionally

Question 39

Good-den [or] go-den [or] God-den

Answer 39

good evening

Question 40

hap [or] happpy

Answer 40

luck; lucky

Question 41

humor

Answer 41

mood; moisture

Question 42

jack

Answer 42

common fellow; ordinary guy

Question 43

maid

Answer 43

unmarried girl

Question 44

mark

Answer 44

listen to

Question 45

Marry

Answer 45

mild oath, shortened from “by the Virgin Mary”

Question 46

nice

Answer 46

trivial; foolish

Question 47

owes

Answer 47

owns

Question 48

shrift

Answer 48

confession or forgiveness for sins that have been confessed to a priest. After confession a person was said to be “shriven”

Question 49

soft

Answer 49

quiet; hush; slow up

Question 50

stay

Answer 50

wait

Question 51

still

Answer 51

always

Question 52

withal

Answer 52

with that; with

Question 53

wot

Answer 53

know

Question 54

a tragedy is

Answer 54

a narrative about serious and important actions that end unhappily (death)

Question 55

S.’s 5 part pattern:

1: _____
2: _____
3: _____
4: _____
5: _____

Answer 55

exposition
rising action or complications
crisis or turning point
falling action
climax and resolution

Question 56

exposition

Answer 56

setting, characters, background, main conflict

Question 57

rising action

Answer 57

series of complications when character tries to solve problems

Question 58

crisis/turning point

Answer 58

chooses comedy or tragedy

Question 59

falling action

Answer 59

result of actions at turning point; usually a bigger disaster so it is a tragedy

Question 60

climax

Answer 60

deaths of main characters usually

Question 61

resolution

Answer 61

loose ends are tied

Question 62

Romeo and Juliet are based on _____’s story of a very young man and an almost 14 year old girl being “in love with love” and “breaking the law by marrying”

Answer 62

Arthur Brooke

Question 63

“star-crossed lovers” comes from people’s belief in _____. R&J are this but are not victims of _____

Answer 63

astrology, fate