ENGL401-FinalExam-Answers

According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. Thomas More.
	b. Francis Bacon.
	c. Earl of Oxford.
	d. John Shakespeare.

Question 2

Both Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow are thought to have been born in what year?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1564
	b. 1580
	c. 1577
	d. 1550

Question 3

In drama, a “soliloquy” refers to which of the following?

Choose one answer.

	a. A dialogue between two characters
	b. A character’s final words before dying
	c. A speech delivered by a character intended to be spoken to only the audience
	d. A rhyming line

Question 4

In drama, what is a “climax”?

Choose one answer.

	a. The conclusion of a play
	b. The end of the first scene of a play
	c. The first death on stage in a play
	d. The turning point of the action in the play

Question 5

In verse, “meter” refers to which of the following?

Choose one answer.

	a. The length of a written line
	b. The measured pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
	c. The height of the stage
	d. The number of words in a line

Question 6

Shakespeare was the author of which of the following plays?

Choose one answer.

	a. “Doctor Faustus”
	b. “The Faerie Queen”
	c. “Titus Andronicus”
	d. “The Jew of Malta”

Question 7

What concept best distinguishes the difference between the time of the Middles Ages and the Renaissance?

Choose one answer.

	a. Humanism
	b. The rise of Queen Elizabeth
	c. The popularity of theater
	d. The life of Shakespeare

Question 8

What does the term “renaissance” mean?

Choose one answer.

	a. Death
	b. Theater
	c. Drama
	d. Rebirth

Question 9

What is the name of Shakespeare’s son?

Choose one answer.

	a. William
	b. John
	c. Hamlet
	d. Hamnet

Question 10

What religion had the most political and social power in Shakespeare’s time?

Choose one answer.

	a. Catholicism
	b. Buddhism
	c. Protestantism
	d. Mormonism

Question 11

What was the name of the theater group that Shakespeare worked with for most of his career?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Lord Chamberlin’s Men
	b. Elizabeth’s Men
	c. The Globe’s Men
	d. Will’s Men

Question 12

Which group was at the bottom of England’s social hierarchy during Shakespeare’s early years?

Choose one answer.

	a. Nobility
	b. Peasants
	c. Yeomen
	d. The gentry

Question 13

Which of the following best characterizes an Elizabethan masque?

Choose one answer.

	a. A horror play, featuring supernatural forces
	b. A sophisticated comedy with a surprising ending
	c. A drama, featuring players representing mythic or allegorical figures
	d. A performance of a classical play in contemporary language

Question 14

Which of the following playwrights is thought to have had the greatest influence on Shakespeare?

Choose one answer.

	a. Ben Johnson
	b. Christopher Marlow
	c. Philip Sidney
	d. Thomas Kyd

Question 15

Who is the author of Utopia?

Choose one answer.

	a. Thomas More
	b. William Shakespeare
	c. Christopher Marlowe
	d. Philip Sydney

Question 16

Who is the author of “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Christopher Marlow
	b. William Shakespeare
	c. Philip Sidney
	d. The Earl of Oxford

Question 17

Who of the following were among Shakespeare’s royal patrons?

Choose one answer.

	a. King James I.
	b. King Henry
	c. Queen Victoria
	d. King Richard

Question 18

Who was Shakespeare’s wife?

Choose one answer.

	a. Elizabeth Marlowe
	b. Joan Shakespeare
	c. Anne Hathaway
	d. Juliet Shakespeare

Question 19

Who was the Queen of England throughout much of Shakespeare’s early life?

Choose one answer.

	a. Queen Elizabeth
	b. Queen Victoria
	c. Queen Anne
	d. Queen Gertrude

Question 20

William Shakespeare’s father primarily worked as which of the following?

Choose one answer.

	a. A politician
	b. A teacher
	c. A glover
	d. A professional actor

Question 21

At the end of the play, “Twelfth Night,” who is discovered to have been secretly married?

Choose one answer.

	a. Viola and Orsino
	b. Sir Toby and Maria
	c. Malvio and Maria
	d. Viola and Sir Toby

Question 22

Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debora Schwartz, Greek “old comedy” was often characterized as being ___________________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Highly sexual
	b. Not comedic at all
	c. Satirical and political
	d. Grounded in religion

Question 23

Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debra Schwartz, Greek “new comedy” was often characterized as being _________________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Highly sexual
	b. Violent
	c. Satirical
	d. Dull and political

Question 24

Fill in the blank. In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Puck is also known as _______________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Oberon
	b. Robin Goodfellow
	c. Demetrius
	d. Hermia

Question 25

In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is the queen of the fairies?

Choose one answer.

	a. Titania
	b. Lysander
	c. Hermia
	d. Oberon

Question 26

In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” where is Helena from?

Choose one answer.

	a. Paris
	b. Naples
	c. Athens
	d. London

Question 27

In the play, “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” who is the queen of the Amazons?

Choose one answer.

	a. Hippolyta
	b. Egeus
	c. Helena
	d. Hermia

Question 28

In the play, “Twelfth Night,” what country is Orisono from?

Choose one answer.

	a. France
	b. Denmark
	c. Illyria
	d. England

Question 29

In the play, “Twelfth Night,” what does Viola refer to herself as when she disguises herself as a man?

Choose one answer.

	a. Orsino
	b. Sir Toby
	c. Antonio
	d. Cesario

Question 30

In the play, “Twelfth Night,” who is Sebastian?

Choose one answer.

	a. Viola’s twin brother
	b. Viola’s eventual lover
	c. A clown
	d. Olivia’s uncle

Question 31

In the play, “Twelfth Night,” who rescues Sebastian after his shipwreck?

Choose one answer.

	a. Antonio
	b. Maria
	c. Olivia
	d. None of the above

Question 32

In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play?

Choose one answer.

	a. Peter Quince
	b. Francis Flute
	c. Nick Bottom
	d. Tom Snout

Question 33

In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is Nick Bottom?

Choose one answer.

	a. An Athenian craftsman
	b. A professional actor
	c. A Duke
	d. An Amazonian

Question 34

In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who says “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” (III.ii.15)?

Choose one answer.

	a. Puck
	b. Nick Bottom
	c. Hippolyta
	d. Helene

Question 35

What country does the play, “All’s Well that Ends Well,” take place in?

Choose one answer.

	a. England
	b. Denmark
	c. Spain
	d. France

Question 36

What is the craftsmen’s play at the end of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” about?

Choose one answer.

	a. Puck’s adventures
	b. Summertime dreams
	c. The history of Athens
	d. Pyramus and Thisbe

Question 37

Who is Bertram’s main companion throughout much of the play, “All’s Well that Ends Well”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Parolles
	b. Lafew
	c. The First Lord
	d. The Clown

Question 38

Who is the central heroine of the play, “Twelfth Night”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Viola
	b. Orsino
	c. Maria
	d. Feste

Question 39

“All’s Well that Ends Well” is considered to be what kind of a play?

Choose one answer.

	a. History
	b. Comedy
	c. Tragedy
	d. Epic poem

Question 40

Who is the heroine of the play, “All’s Well that Ends Well”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Helena
	b. Gertrude
	c. Parolles
	d. Mariana

Question 41

According to Dr. Roger Dunkle, in ancient times, what was considered a tragedy?

Choose one answer.

	a. A worship of the gods
	b. A song for the prize or sacrifice of a goat
	c. A comedic performance
	d. A story that ended with a marriage

Question 42

Fill in the blank. In the play, “Macbeth,” a number of characters refer to the Three Witches as ________________.

Choose one answer.

	a. “The violent trio”
	b. “The Fatal Sisters”
	c. “The Weird Sisters”
	d. “The Dead Sisters”

Question 43

In his lectures on Shakespeare’s tragedies, A.C. Bradley states that he will not do which of the following?

Choose one answer.

	a. Compare Shakespeare to other writers.
	b. Evaluate and examine Hamlet.
	c. Consider anything about Shakespeare’s comedies.
	d. Discuss any aspect of Shakespeare’s philosophy.

Question 44

In the play, “Hamlet,” what is the name of Polonius’s daughter?

Choose one answer.

	a. Laertes
	b. Ophelia
	c. Gertrude
	d. Fortinbras

Question 45

In the play, “Hamlet,” who is Yorick?

Choose one answer.

	a. King Hamlet’s former jester
	b. A friend of Hamlet’s from school
	c. The King of Norway
	d. A castle guard

Question 46

In the play, “Macbeth,” according to the witches, who will inherit the Scottish throne?

Choose one answer.

	a. The children of Macbeth
	b. The children of Banquo
	c. The children of Macduff
	d. The children of the witches

Question 47

In the play, “Macbeth,” how does Macbeth kill Duncan?

Choose one answer.

	a. He shoots him.
	b. He strangles him.
	c. He stabs him.
	d. He beheads him.

Question 48

In the play, “Macbeth,” who asks “Whence is that knocking?” (2.11.55)

Choose one answer.

	a. Macbeth
	b. Lady Macbeth
	c. Duncan
	d. Macduff

Question 49

In the play, “Macbeth,” who assists Macbeth with planning Duncan’s murder?

Choose one answer.

	a. Banquo
	b. Macduff
	c. Malcolm
	d. Lady Macbeth

Question 50

In the play, “Macbeth,” who becomes king immediately after Duncan’s murder?

Choose one answer.

	a. Macbeth
	b. Banquo
	c. Macduff
	d. Malcolm

Question 51

In the play, “Macbeth,” who is the goddess of witchcraft?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lennox
	b. Lady Macbeth
	c. The porter
	d. Hecate

Question 52

In “Hamlet,” what is Hamlet’s uncle’s name?

Choose one answer.

	a. Polonius
	b. Claudius
	c. Horatio
	d. Fortinbras

Question 53

In “Hamlet,” which character is left alive at the end of the play?

Choose one answer.

	a. Hamlet
	b. Claudius
	c. Horatio
	d. Gertrude

Question 54

In “Hamlet,” who says that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Claudius
	b. Horatio
	c. Hamlet
	d. Marcellus

Question 55

In “Macbeth,” where is Macduff when he learns of his family’s execution?

Choose one answer.

	a. England
	b. France
	c. Scotland
	d. Norway

Question 56

The play, “Hamlet,” takes place in which of the following countries?

Choose one answer.

	a. Denmark
	b. Norway
	c. England
	d. France

Question 57

The play, “Macbeth,” is set in what country?

Choose one answer.

	a. England
	b. Scotland
	c. France
	d. Norway

Question 58

Who is King of Scotland at the start of the play, “Macbeth”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Macbeth
	b. Banquo
	c. Duncan
	d. Donalbain

Question 59

Who kills Macbeth at the end of the play, “Macbeth”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Duncan
	b. Lady Macbeth
	c. Lady Macduff
	d. Macduff

Question 60

Hamlet is considered to be what kind of play?

Choose one answer.

	a. Comedy
	b. History
	c. Tragedy
	d. Epic poem

Question 61

At the end of the play “Richard III,” what happens to Richard?

Choose one answer.

	a. He is killed.
	b. He is arrested.
	c. He is crowned king.
	d. He was sent into exile.

Question 62

Dr. Ian Johnson suggests which of the following ideas about the play, “Henry V”?

Choose one answer.

	a. That it is a satire of European monarchies
	b. That none of the characters undergo a remarkable shift in personality over the course of the play
	c. That it is historically accurate
	d. That it is an incomplete play and possibly not authored by Shakespeare

Question 63

In Shakespeare’s play, Henry V is king of what country?

Choose one answer.

	a. England
	b. Norway
	c. Denmark
	d. France

Question 64

In the play “Richard III,” where does Richard imprison the young princes?

Choose one answer.

	a. In a tower
	b. In a pit
	c. In a prison
	d. In another country

Question 65

In the play, “Henry V,” the Chorus serves to do which of the following?

Choose one answer.

	a. Make jokes about Henry
	b. Sing songs about the events
	c. Comment on the plot and themes of the play
	d. Dance upon the stage

Question 66

In the play, “Henry V,” what country does Henry wish to conquer?

Choose one answer.

	a. England
	b. Spain
	c. France
	d. Denmark

Question 67

In the play, “Henry V,” who is the close friend and mentor of young Henry?

Choose one answer.

	a. Montjoy
	b. Horatio
	c. Falstaff
	d. Nim

Question 68

In the play, “Henry V,” who is the daughter of the King of France?

Choose one answer.

	a. Catherine
	b. Alice
	c. The Hostess
	d. Nim

Question 69

In the play, “Henry V,” who is the Queen of France?

Choose one answer.

	a. Queen Isabel
	b. Queen Nim
	c. Queen Alice
	d. Queen Montjoy

Question 70

In the play, “Henry V,” who states that “If we are marked to die, we are enough/To do our country loss…” (IV.iii.20-21)?

Choose one answer.

	a. Falstaff
	b. Henry V
	c. Nim
	d. Catherine

Question 71

In the play, “Richard III,” who does Richard hire to kill the young princes?

Choose one answer.

	a. Ratcliffe
	b. Richmond
	c. Clarence
	d. Tyrell

Question 72

In the play, “Richard III,” who is manipulated into marrying Richard?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lady Anne
	b. Queen Elizabeth
	c. Duchess of York
	d. Margaret

Question 73

In the play, “Richard III,” who is Richard’s primary accomplice?

Choose one answer.

	a. Buckingham
	b. Clarence
	c. Tyrell
	d. Richmond

Question 74

In the play, “Richard III,” who is Richard’s elder brother?

Choose one answer.

	a. Clarence
	b. King Edward IV
	c. Tyrell
	d. Richmond

Question 75

In the play, “Richard III,” who is the mother of Prince Edward?

Choose one answer.

	a. Lady Anne
	b. Queen Elizabeth
	c. Margaret
	d. Duchess of York

Question 76

In the play, “Richard III,” who speaks of “the winter of our discontent” (I.i.1)?

Choose one answer.

	a. Richmond
	b. Queen Elizabeth
	c. Richard III
	d. The princes

Question 77

The play, “Richard III,” takes place in what country?

Choose one answer.

	a. Greece
	b. France
	c. Norway
	d. England

Question 78

What century does the play, “Henry V,” take place in?

Choose one answer.

	a. 15th century
	b. 16th century
	c. 14th century
	d. 17th century

Question 79

Who directly challenges Richard for the throne in the play, “Richard III”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Tyrell
	b. King Edward IV
	c. Queen Elizabeth
	d. The Earl of Richmond

Question 80

What type of play is “Richard III”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Tragedy
	b. History
	c. Comedy
	d. Lyric

Question 81

Blank verse refers to which of the following?

Choose one answer.

	a. Prose
	b. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
	c. Rhyming verse
	d. Rhyming couplets

Question 82

Fill in the blank. In Shakespeare’s plays, prose is often used in _______________.

Choose one answer.

	a. Serious letters
	b. Iambic pentameter
	c. Rhyming verse
	d. Couplets

Question 83

Fill in the blank. The plot of “Venus and Adonis” is based on passages from ______________.

Choose one answer.

	a. The Bible
	b. A Christopher Marlowe play
	c. Ovid’s Metamorphoses
	d. An early Shakespeare play

Question 84

For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT:

Choose one answer.

	a. Greek mythology
	b. European history
	c. Early scientific studies
	d. The works of earlier poets

Question 85

How many sonnets are attributed to Shakespeare?

Choose one answer.

	a. 12
	b. 67
	c. 154
	d. 200

Question 86

In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been?

Choose one answer.

	a. Marlowe
	b. Swift
	c. Oxford
	d. Bacon

Question 87

In Shakespeare’s plays, when is rhyme often used?

Choose one answer.

	a. When ghosts speak
	b. When characters speak naturally
	c. When a lower class character speaks
	d. When the play necessitates ritualistic, choral, and sensuous effect

Question 88

In Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis,” how is Adonis killed?

Choose one answer.

	a. In a hunting accident
	b. By Venus
	c. By execution
	d. By old age

Question 89

In the narrative poem, “The Rape of Lucrece,” who is Lucretia?

Choose one answer.

	a. A fairy queen
	b. A Roman matron
	c. A villainess
	d. A beggar woman

Question 90

Shakespeare often employed which of the following stylistic forms in his dramas?

Choose one answer.

	a. Blank verse
	b. Old English
	c. Authorial narration
	d. Prose

Question 91

Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is:

Choose one answer.

	a. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
	b. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
	c. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
	d. None of the above

Question 92

Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 153” is what kind of poem?

Choose one answer.

	a. A poem about death
	b. A poem about love
	c. A poem about writing poetry
	d. A poem about Shakespeare and his father

Question 93

The concept of “prose” refers to which of the following?

Choose one answer.

	a. Ordinary speech
	b. Blank verse
	c. Rhyming verse
	d. Non-English word use

Question 94

Where does the sonnet form originate from?

Choose one answer.

	a. England
	b. Spain
	c. France
	d. Italy

Question 95

Which of the following are not among the subjects of Shakespeare’s sonnets?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Dark Lady
	b. Shakespeare’s father
	c. A young man
	d. A rival poet

Question 96

Which of the following poems is considered to be the most neglected of Shakespeare’s?

Choose one answer.

	a. “A Lover’s Complaint”
	b. “Venus and Adonis”
	c. “The Phoenix and Turtle”
	d. “The Rape of Lucrece”

Question 97

Which of the following poems was authored by Shakespeare?

Choose one answer.

	a. “Tintern Abbey”
	b. “A Lover’s Complaint”
	c. “El Cid”
	d. “The Wasteland”

Question 98

Which of the following statements about a sonnet is false?

Choose one answer.

	a. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines.
	b. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.
	c. A sonnet is only written in Italian.
	d. The last two lines of a sonnet are a rhyming couplet.

Question 99

Who is the main focus of a number of Shakespeare’s sonnets?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Dark Lady
	b. Hamlet
	c. Christopher Marlow
	d. Hamnet Shakespeare

Question 100

What literary genre is Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Short story
	b. Tragedy play
	c. Comedy play
	d. Poetry