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Shakespearean Language
Test Description: Formative Assessment
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What poetic meter does Shakespeare use primarily in his plays?
A
terza rima
B
trochaic tetrameter
C
iambic pentameter
D
rhymed couplets
2) An allusion in a play is
A
a reference to a famous fact from history, mythology, or literature.
B
something that appears to be real but is not.
C
repetition of initial consonant sounds.
D
the part after the conclusion of the play that tells the rest of the story.
3) Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, which were
A
long narrative poems written in rhymed couplets
B
16 line poems with the rhyme scheme ababab cdcdcd efefef gg
C
love poems written in blank verse
D
16 line poems written in the Italian (Petrarchan) style
4) Shakespeare wrote 37 plays, most of which could be put into these three categories:
A
early, modern, later
B
comedy, history, tragedy
C
violence, nudity, language
D
romance, drama, comedy
5) Shakespeare's comedies have this in common:
A
all of the characters are servants and from the lower classes
B
a noble hero with a terrible flaw dies at the end
C
they are the last plays he wrote before he died
D
they contain ridiculous mixups, wordplay, and end in happy romances
6) William Shakespeare was an famous playwright who performed his plays in a theater company in
A
London, England
B
Elsinore, Denmark
C
Edinburgh, Scotland
D
Verona, Italy
7) Some people believe William Shakespeare could not have written his plays because
A
he grew up poor in a rural area.
B
he never attended a college or university.
C
he never wrote anything else.
D
he flunked out of grammar school.
8) William Shakespeare's plays were never published during his lifetime because
A
he was on the run from the law and had gambling debts.
B
no one thought they were any good.
C
he wrote scripts, gave them to actors, they performed the plays, and then they usually were discarded.
D
Queen Elizabeth disapproved of the theater.
9) Shakespearean language is difficult to understand mostly because
A
they were written 400 years ago and the English language has changed since then.
B
they were not written in English.
C
he wrote only for a highly educated audience.
D
he wrote them all in slang terms only his friends could understand.
10) Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in history because
A
he was the world's best rhymer of all time.
B
nobody reads the plays anymore.
C
he understood the human condition more than anyone else has, and he wrote extremely well.
D
he made more money from his published books than anyone else ever has.
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