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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Queen Elizabeth’s reaction to Richard II.
(a) She was apathetic
(b) She was indifferent
(c) She was upset
(d) She was pleased

2. Which of Will’s plays does the removal of motivation for characters’ actions NOT affect?
(a) Othello
(b) Twelfth Night
(c) King Lear
(d) Hamlet

3. What was a significant innovation in Hamlet that refers to a method of speaking by a particular character?
(a) The use of foreshadowing
(b) The epic poem
(c) The soliloquy
(d) The act of speaking in another language

4. Who took Robert Greene in so that he did not have to die on the streets of London?
(a) An actor
(b) A shoemaker
(c) Another playwright
(d) A queen

5. During the production of which of Will’s plays did the Globe Theater burn down?
(a) Henry VIII
(b) Hamlet
(c) King Lear
(d) Macbeth

6. Which young aristocrat eventually became Will’s patron?
(a) King Henry
(b) Queen Elizabeth
(c) The Earl of Stratford
(d) The Earl of Southampton

7. Where did Will live near the end of his life?
(a) London
(b) Stratford
(c) Birmingham
(d) Lancashire

8. Which person associated with Queen Elizabeth was executed on accusations of heresy and treason?
(a) The monarch’s daughter
(b) The monarch’s doctor
(c) The monarch’s priest
(d) The monarch’s hairdresser

9. What was Will’s future patron determined NOT to do?
(a) Marry
(b) Become ill
(c) Become injured while riding horses
(d) Divorce

10. What technique does the author use at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Intended forgetfulness
(b) Alliteration
(c) Flashback
(d) Soliloquy

11. Which of Will’s famous tragedies was written during the reign of King James?
(a) Richard II
(b) Venus and Adonis
(c) Macbeth
(d) Hamlet

12. What was a result of the production of Hamlet?
(a) Will’s position as a playwright in London was destroyed
(b) Will’s position as a preeminent playwright was assured
(c) Will was made a knight by the queen
(d) Will was invited to go to France to write plays

13. Which description does NOT fit the members of the important group of playwrights in London during Will’s day?
(a) Intent upon making a mark in theater
(b) Generous and mild
(c) University educated
(d) Outcasts from their families

14. What theater in London burned down towards the end of Will’s life?
(a) The Thorn
(b) The Glove
(c) The Globe
(d) The Rose

15. Which of these was a prominent playwright within the theater community of Will’s day?
(a) Richard Field
(b) Edmund Campion
(c) Sir Thomas Lucy
(d) Christopher Marlowe

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character in one of Will’s works especially reflects the encounters that Will had with two of the members of the important group of playwrights in London?

2. In what year did Will die?

3. In which play did Will NOT poke fun at the members of the prominent group of playwrights in London during his day?

4. In which of Will’s plays does Sir John Falstaff appear?

5. Both Will and Marlowe utilized main characters in their works from what people group?

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