Shakespearean Drama Quiz 6 (9 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. A speech given by a character alone on stage that lets the audience know what the character is thinking or feeling.

Correct Answer: A) Soliloquy.

2. Definition:A play on words.

Correct Answer: A) Pun.

3. Who is not a University wit?

Correct Answer: C) Beaumont.

4. Which act of a Shakespearean drama would include the rising action?

Correct Answer: B) 2.

5. Which characteristic of Claudius revealed in his opening speech will most affect the plot?

Correct Answer: A) His cunning as a politician.

6. Speech given on stage by a character who is alone on stage

Correct Answer: B) Soliloquy.

7. A brief reference, within a work, to something outside the work that the reader or audience is expected to know

Correct Answer: B) Allusion.

8. Which TECHNICAL ELEMENT best helps to make the following scene successful in building suspense?

Correct Answer: A) Lights/sound.

9. Serves as a narrator

Correct Answer: C) Chorus.