This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama > Shakespearean Drama – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespearean Drama Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A tragic flaw is ..... A) A character flaw that ultimately leads to the downfall of a tragic hero. B) An intentionally broken set piece that causes tragedy in a play. C) A human weakness that a character learns to overcome. D) When an actor forgets his line and says something horrible while on stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A character flaw that ultimately leads to the downfall of a tragic hero. 2. Iambic Pentameter A) A pattern of rhythm that has five unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable. B) A type of flower. C) A musical instrument. D) A painting technique. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A pattern of rhythm that has five unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable. 3. Characters who are in conflict with the hero A) Tragic hero. B) Antagonist. C) Protagonist. D) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 4. A form of poetry that most resembles natural speech. A) Blank verse. B) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 5. Conversation between characters in a drama A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Soliloquy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 6. In line 66, Claudius says to Hamlet:How is it that the clouds still hang on you? What is the effect of using this metaphor? A) It describes how Hamlet is clothed. B) It illustrates Hamlet's changeability. C) It foretells that Hamlet is facing calamity. D) It shows the visibility of Hamlet's dark mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It shows the visibility of Hamlet's dark mood. 7. Read line 12 of the excerpt. With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, Which statement best explains the meaning of this paradoxical expression? A) Claudius is confused by his brother's death and his own marriage. B) Claudius considers funeral and marriage ceremonies to be amusing and sad. C) Claudius feels mingled grief and joy over his marriage and his brother's death. D) Claudius regrets having married the queen so soon after his brother's funeral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claudius feels mingled grief and joy over his marriage and his brother's death. 8. A type of meter that has five unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable. A) Blank verse. B) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic pentameter. 9. A series of actions meant to be performed on a stage by live actors:another word for a play A) Comedies. B) Tragedies. C) Script. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drama. 10. A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood and serves to heighten the seriousness of the main action by contrast. A) Soliloquy. B) Aside. C) Dramatic irony. D) Comic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comic relief. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. Character that goes through inner change throughout the story/drama A) Flat. B) Round. C) Dynamic. D) Static. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dynamic. 14. 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. 15. 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. 16. Which major English monarch supported Shakespeare's writing? A) Henri IV. B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau. C) Elizabeth I. D) Mary, Queen of Scots. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth I. 17. What is contained in Act II of a Shakespearean drama? A) An inciting incident. B) A final moment of suspense. C) A denouement. D) A complication of the inciting incident. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A complication of the inciting incident. 18. What is a blank verse? A) A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension. B) Humor resulting from words with similar sound and different meanings. C) A character's remark that others on stage do not hear. D) Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. 19. 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. 20. Tragic Flaw A) A character's strength. B) A character's weakness in personality that leads to their downfall. C) A character's strength in personality that leads to their success. D) A character's best friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A character's weakness in personality that leads to their downfall. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesShakespearean Drama Quiz 1Shakespearean Drama Quiz 2Shakespearean Drama Quiz 3Shakespearean Drama Quiz 5Shakespearean Drama Quiz 6American Drama QuizDr Faustus By Christopher Marlowe QuizDrama QuizHamlet QuizMacbeth QuizPlay By Sakespear QuizShakespearean Tragedy Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books