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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Othello and Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Prospero do to Antonio when the two meet at the end of The Tempest?
(a) He kills him.
(b) He imprisons him in a tree.
(c) He forgives him.
(d) He marries him to Miranda.

2. What relation is Claudius to Hamlet?
(a) Father.
(b) No relation.
(c) Brother.
(d) Uncle.

3. What does the juice of the purple flower do to people in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
(a) It makes them fall in love.
(b) It makes them wake up.
(c) It makes them fall out of love.
(d) It makes them fall asleep.

4. How is Laertes killed at the end of Hamlet?
(a) He drowns in a stream behind the castle.
(b) Claudius gives him a poisoned goblet of wine.
(c) He is stabbed through a tapestry.
(d) Hamlet stabs him with a poisoned rapier.

5. Whom does Hamlet accidentally kill in Gertrude's bedchamber?
(a) Gertrude.
(b) Polonius.
(c) Ophelia.
(d) Claudius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is Iago's reason for wanting to destroy Othello?

2. What request does Timon make of Alcibiades at the end of his story?

3. How does Othello die?

4. What good do Romeo and Juliet's deaths bring at the end of the story?

5. What role does Ariel take on the island in The Tempest?

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