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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Twelfth Night; or, What You Will and Timon of Athens.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, what penalty does Hermia face if she refuses he father's choice of marriage?
(a) Life imprisonment.
(b) Death.
(c) Public mockery.
(d) Forced nunnery.

2. At his castles, what appears before Macbeth directing him to Duncan's chamber?
(a) A black horse.
(b) A dagger.
(c) A stream of blood.
(d) A witch.

3. What false name does Rosalind choose for her flight into Arden?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Ganymede.
(d) Creon.

4. What is Diana given at the end of All's Well That Ends Well as a reward?
(a) A manor in Provence.
(b) A husband.
(c) A seat in court.
(d) A large gemstone.

5. In The Winter's Tale, what does Leontes want his counselors to ask the oracle at Delphos?
(a) If his son will be king.
(b) If Polixenes is dead.
(c) If his kingdom is safe.
(d) If his wife is faithful.

Short Answer Questions

1. In King Lear, Edmund is the bastard son of what earl?

2. Why does Lear wander into a storm at night?

3. At the beginning of Taming of the Shrew, Baptista declares that Bianca shall not wed until what?

4. What does the fisherman in Comedy of Errors do with Antipholus and Dromio when they arrive in Ephesus?

5. In Taming of the Shrew, why does Petruchio say Katharine should not eat on their wedding night?

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