This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Shakespearean Drama – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespearean Drama Quiz 2 (35 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following play is not written by Shakespeare? A) Hamlet. B) Twelfth Night. C) Antony and Cleopatra. D) Dr. A.S. Faustus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr. A.S. Faustus. 2. The character or thing that creates the main struggle for the main character A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Chorus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 3. Blank verse is..... A) Dialogue written in poetry that has rhythm by not rhyme. B) A type of poetry where the author uses blank lines to make a point. C) A song written with a lot of pauses for music. D) When a character mimes a monologue silently instead of speaking it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue written in poetry that has rhythm by not rhyme. 4. Character that goes through inner change throughout the story/drama A) Static. B) Round. C) Flat. D) Dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dynamic. 5. What are the characteristics of a Shakespearean tragic hero? A) Has a high social rank (king, general). B) Has a tragic flaw that leads ot a downfall. C) Suffers ruin or death, but faces it with courage and dignity. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 6. Brutus is alone in his orchard ..... "The only way is to kill Caesar. I have no personal reason to strike him ..... only the best interest of the people. He wants to be crowned. The question is, how would being king change him? Evil can come from good, just as poisonous snakes tend to come out into the open on bright sunny days ..... " A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Soliloquy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 7. Which major English monarch supported Shakespeare's writing? A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau. B) Elizabeth I. C) Henri IV. D) Mary, Queen of Scots. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth I. 8. What is contained in Act II of a Shakespearean drama? A) A complication of the inciting incident. B) A denouement. C) An inciting incident. D) A final moment of suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A complication of the inciting incident. 9. What are marginal notes (also called side glosses)? A) A short summary of the scene found at the beginning of each one. B) Indications of where a scene takes place as well as who's on stage and what they're doing. C) Notes in the margin of the play to help clarify meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Notes in the margin of the play to help clarify meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases. 10. What do stage directions do? A) Reveals responses of characters to others. B) Provides a preview of "who's who" and their relationship with each other. C) Tell where and when events occur, describe how actions are performed, and note emotions or how a character says a line of dialogue. D) Provides definitions and explanations of unfamiliar terms and expressions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tell where and when events occur, describe how actions are performed, and note emotions or how a character says a line of dialogue. 11. Which act of a Shakespearean drama would include the falling action? A) 3. B) 1. C) 2. D) 5. E) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 4. 12. The main character of a story/drama A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Chorus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 13. Character that has multiple personality traits A) Dynamic. B) Flat. C) Round. D) Static. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Round. 14. Which act of a Shakespearean drama would include the climax? A) 2. B) 1. C) 5. D) 3. E) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 15. Which act of a Shakespearean drama would include the prologue/exposition? A) 4. B) 3. C) 5. D) 2. E) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 1. 16. All the written words of a play A) Stage directions. B) Drama. C) Script. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Script. 17. Shakespearean drama genre that is characterized by:Serious themes & motifsImportance of DeathContains tragic hero with a fatal flaw A) Tragedy. B) History. C) Comedy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragedy. 18. A character's remark, either to the audience or to another character, that others on stage do not hear and reveals the character's private thoughts. A) Soliloquy. B) Comic relief. C) Aside. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aside. 19. Character that does NOT go through inner change throughout the story/drama A) Static. B) Round. C) Flat. D) Dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Static. 20. The main character of the story, play, or drama A) Groundling. B) Antagonist. C) Foil. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protagonist. 21. What is an antagonist? A) The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist. B) The protagonist, or central character. C) A character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another character. D) A speech given by a character alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist. 22. Acts & scenes a noted using ..... A) Mayan numbers. B) English numbers. C) Roman numerals. D) Hebrew numerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roman numerals. 23. What is contained in the 4th act of a Shakespearean drama? A) A confrontation. B) The climax. C) The introduction of the characters. D) The rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A confrontation. 24. Plays that make fun of human problems and are funny A) Comic relief. B) Allusion. C) Dramatic irony. D) Comedies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comedies. 25. In a drama, an act (noun) can be compared to ..... in a novel. A) Characters. B) Chapters. C) Genres. D) Books. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chapters. 26. What is allusion? A) A reference to a literary or historical person or event that the audience is expected to know. B) A drama that results in a catastrophe, most often death, for the main characters. C) A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension. D) Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, a meter that contains five unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A reference to a literary or historical person or event that the audience is expected to know. 27. A speech given by a character alone on stage that lets the audience know what the character is thinking or feeling. A) Aside. B) Dramatic irony. C) Soliloquy. D) Comic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 28. Definition:A play on words. A) Pun. B) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 29. Who is not a University wit? A) Beaumont. B) Christopher Marlow. C) John Lyly. D) Graham Greene. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beaumont. 30. Which act of a Shakespearean drama would include the rising action? A) 4. B) 5. C) 3. D) 1. E) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 2. 31. Which characteristic of Claudius revealed in his opening speech will most affect the plot? A) His cunning as a politician. B) His skill as a fierce warrior. C) His devotion as a loyal husband. D) His reliability as a fair lawmaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His cunning as a politician. 32. Speech given on stage by a character who is alone on stage A) Aside. B) Comedies. C) Dialogue. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soliloquy. 33. A brief reference, within a work, to something outside the work that the reader or audience is expected to know A) Aside. B) Allusion. C) Stage directions. D) Script. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 34. Which TECHNICAL ELEMENT best helps to make the following scene successful in building suspense? A) Lights/sound. B) Scenery. C) . D) Costumes/ makeup. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lights/sound. 35. Serves as a narrator A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Chorus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chorus. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesShakespearean Drama Quiz 1American Drama QuizDr Faustus By Christopher Marlowe QuizDrama QuizHamlet QuizMacbeth QuizPlay By Sakespear QuizShakespearean Tragedy Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books