This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespearean Drama – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespearean Drama Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A humorous scene, incident, or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity in the play A) Drama. B) Comic relief. C) Comedies. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comic relief. 2. What is contained in Act I of a Shakespearean drama? A) The denouement. B) The climax. C) The fortunes of the protagonist are reversed. D) The exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The exposition. 3. Bianca was torn on whether she should stay at the party. She saw people doing drugs, and she did not feel safe any longer. A) Internal conflict. B) External conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal conflict. 4. A single character gives a speech to other characters in a drama A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Soliloquy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 5. What is catharsis? A) A drama that ends in catastrophe-most often in death-for the main character(s). B) Familiar character types that appear over and over in literature. C) The process of releasing, and thereby providing release from strong, repressed emotions. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The process of releasing, and thereby providing release from strong, repressed emotions. 6. What is a Shakespearean Tragedy? A) A humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension. B) A drama that results in a catastrophe, most often death, for the main characters that provide comic moments that counter the underlying tension of the serious plot. C) A character's remark that others on stage do not hear. D) A drama that results in a catastrophe, most often death, for the main characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A drama that results in a catastrophe, most often death, for the main characters that provide comic moments that counter the underlying tension of the serious plot. 7. Groundlings A) The poor people who paid a penny to stand and watch a play. B) A group of performers who stand outside the action and comment on the events and characters in the play. C) The main character who comes to a miserable end. D) A character who acts as a contrast to another character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The poor people who paid a penny to stand and watch a play. 8. What is a monologue? A) A long speech given by a character to other characters and expressing what the character is thinking and feeling. B) A character's remark, either to the audience or to another character that others on stage do not hear. C) A speech given by a character alone on stage, letting the audience know what the character is thinking and feeling. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A long speech given by a character to other characters and expressing what the character is thinking and feeling. 9. Tragedy A) A work in which the main character, or tragic hero, came to an unhappy ending. B) Cleansing of emotions in the audience; the reason audience's enjoyed tragedies. C) A writer's use of hints or clues to suggest what events will occur later in a work. D) Joke playing with the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A work in which the main character, or tragic hero, came to an unhappy ending. 10. Which act of a Shakespearean drama would include the denouement/resolution? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. E) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 5. 11. Language used in 1611 A.D. or about the time of Shakespeare. A) Script. B) Modern English. C) Dialogue. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modern English. 12. When the audience knows more than the characters which helps build suspense. A) Soliloquy. B) Aside. C) Dramatic irony. D) Comic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 13. Tragic hero A) The main character who comes to a miserable end. B) A light, mildly humorous scene following a serious one. C) What appears true to one or more characters in a play is seen to be false by the audience. D) A character who acts as a contrast to another character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The main character who comes to a miserable end. 14. The use of hints or clues about what will happen later A) Comic relief. B) Foreshadowing. C) Drama. D) Tragedies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 15. Someone who is nobly born and has great influence in his or her society, often the main character A) Foil. B) Tragic hero. C) Protagonist. D) Tragedies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragic hero. 16. Which TECHNICAL ELEMENT best helps to make the following scene successful in establishing the setting (time period) and the class structure? A) Lights/sound. B) Scenery. C) Costumes/ makeup. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Costumes/ makeup. 17. 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. 18. Characters who are in conflict with the hero A) Tragic hero. B) Antagonist. C) Protagonist. D) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 19. A form of poetry that most resembles natural speech. A) Blank verse. B) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 20. Conversation between characters in a drama A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Soliloquy. D) None of above. 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