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Monday, January 21, 2008

20080121 That is the Question: The Ultimate Shakespeare Quiz Book by Tom Delise


That is the Question: The Ultimate Shakespeare Quiz Book (Paperback)

by Thomas Delise

Publisher: Career Press, Incorporated

Pub. Date: April 2004

ISBN-13: 9781564147349

283pp

Table of Contents

Introduction 13

Section I Quoting Shakespeare 17

Quiz 1 This Is the True Beginning: Identify the Play by the Opening Lines 19

Quiz 2 What Do You Call the Play?: Identify the Play by a Quote 21

Quiz 3 I Would My Horse Had the Speed of Your Tongue: Identify the Play by an Insult Used 23

Quiz 4 Thus Men May Grow Wiser Every Day: Identify the Play by a Wise Quote 25

Quiz 5 This Bud of Love: Identify the Play by a Love Quote 26

Quiz 6 Will You Rhyme Upon't?: Complete the Play's Rhyming Couplet 28

Quiz 7 Say But the Word: Complete the Play's Quote 31

Quiz 8 Why, How Now, Hamlet!: Complete the Hamlet Quote 33

Quiz 9 To Be, or Not To Be: Complete the Hamlet Soliloquy 34

Quiz 10 All the World's a Stage: Complete the As You Like It Soliloquy 36

Quiz 11 Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent: Complete the Richard III Soliloquy 37

Quiz 12 Here Is Part of My Rhyme: Complete the Sonnet Rhyme 38

Quiz 13 'Tis Well Said Again: Identify the Play Where a Famous Phrase May Be Found 40

Quiz 14 Our Revels Now Are Ended: Identify the Play by the Ending Lines 42

Section II Shakespeare's Characters 45

Quiz 15 Have We Not Affections?: Identify the Significant Others 47

Quiz 16 Lord, What Fools: Identify the Fool 48

Quiz 17 Where Are My Children?: Identify the Parent and Child 49

Quiz 18 O, Odious Is the Name: Identify the Character With the Unusual Name 50

Quiz 19 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Multiple Use of Character Names 51

Quiz 20 This Title Honors Me and Mine: Identify Characters by Their Title 52

Quiz 21 Our Parts So Poor: Identify the Play in Which a Minor Character Appears 53

Quiz 22 We Were the First, Part I: Identify the Female Character by Her First Words 54

Quiz 23 We Were the First, Part II: Identify the Male Character by His First Words 56

Quiz 24 A Woman Is a Dish for the Gods: Identify the Female Character From a Quote 58

Quiz 25 What a Piece of Work Is a Man!: Identify the Male Character From a Quote 60

Quiz 26 A Long Farewell to All My Greatness: Identify the Characters by Their Dying Words 63

Quiz 27 Which Is the Villain?: Identify the Villain by the Quote 65

Quiz 28 What Art Thou That Talk'st of Kings and Queens?: Identify the Kings and Queens in the Plays 68

Quiz 29 We Shall Speak of You: Identify the Character Mentioned or Addressed 70

Section III Shakespeare's Infinite Variety 73

Quiz 30 To Peruse Him by Items: Identify the Play by the Item in It 75

Quiz 31 Particular Additions: Identify the Play by a Description 76

Quiz 32 The Game's Afoot: Identify the Play by the Opening Situation 78

Quiz 33 A Pretty Plot, Well Chosen To Build Upon: Identify the Play by Plot Development 80

Quiz 34 It Is a Sweet Comedy: Questions on the Comedies 81

Quiz 35 The Complot of This Timeless Tragedy: Questions on the Tragedies 84

Quiz 36 Is Not This Something More Than Fantasy?: Questions on the Romances 87

Quiz 37 It Is a Kind of History: Questions on the Histories 89

Quiz 38 At First and Last the Hearty Welcome: Firsts and Lasts Associated With Shakespeare 92

Quiz 39 O, Horrible, O, Horrible, Most Horrible!: Identify the Play Where the Horrible Event Can Be Found 95

Quiz 40 This Supernatural Soliciting: Identify the Play Where the Supernatural Occurs 96

Quiz 41 All the Places That the Eye of Heaven Visits: Identify the Play by the Setting 98

Quiz 42 Away, the Gentles Are at Their Game: Games and Sports in the Plays 99

Quiz 43 How Many Goodly Creatures Are There Here!: Creatures in the Plays 101

Quiz 44 Sir, 'Tis My Occupation: The World of Work in Shakespeare 103

Quiz 45 Tales of Woeful Ages Long Ago: Mythological References in the Plays 104

Quiz 46 I'll Tell You My Dream: Dream References in Shakespeare 106

Quiz 47 He Hath Songs for Man or Woman: Songs in Shakespeare 108

Quiz 48 Doctor, Cast the Water of My Land, Find Her Disease: Shakespeare and the World of Medicine 109

Section IV Film, Stage, and Literature 113

Quiz 49 This Wide and Universal Theatre: Shakespeare in Film 115

Quiz 50 You Precious Winners All: Academy Awards for Shakespeare 118

Quiz 51 The Best Actors in the World, Part I: Actors in Shakespearean Film 121

Quiz 52 The Best Actors in the World, Part II: Actors in Shakespearean Film 124

Quiz 53 Let Her Shine as Gloriously, Part I: Actresses in Shakespearean Film 126

Quiz 54 Let Her Shine as Gloriously, Part II: Actresses in Shakespearean Film 129

Quiz 55 Derived From Honorable Loins: Shakespearean Film Offshoots 132

Quiz 56 The Two Hours' Traffic of Our Stage: Shakespeare on the Stage 134

Quiz 57 Stars Give Light to Thy Fair Way!: Shakespeare and Star Trek 137

Quiz 58 O, for a Muse of Fire: Titles of Other Works Derived From Shakespeare 140

Quiz 59 An Advocate for an Imposter!: Is the Quote Shakespeare or Someone Else? 142

Quiz 60 It May Be You Have Mistaken Him: Is It Shakespeare or the Bible? 144

Quiz 61 Forgive the Comment That My Passion Made: Other Writers' Comments About Shakespeare 145

Quiz 62 All the Peers Are Here at Hand: Theatrical and Literary Contemporaries of Shakespeare 147

Quiz 63 Art Thou Base, Common and Popular?: Shakespeare in Pop Culture 149

Section V Individual Plays 153

Quiz 64 We Have Kiss'd Away Kingdoms and Provinces: The Play Antony and Cleopatra 155

Quiz 65 O Wonderful, Wonderful, Most Wonderful: The Play As You Like It 157

Quiz 66 Pardon's the Word to All: The Play Cymbeline 159

Quiz 67 Now Cracks a Noble Heart: The Play Hamlet 161

Quiz 68 Company, Villainous Company: The Play Henry IV, Part One 163

Quiz 69 A Little Touch of Harry in the Night: The Play Henry V 165

Quiz 70 This Was the Most Unkindest Cut of All: The Play Julius Caesar 168

Quiz 71 Nothing Will Come of Nothing: The Play King Lear 170

Quiz 72 This Dead Butcher and His Fiend-like Queen: The Play Macbeth 172

Quiz 73 I Like Not Fair Terms and Villain's Mind: The Play The Merchant of Venice 176

Quiz 74 If We Shadows Have Offended: The Play A Midsummer Night's Dream 177

Quiz 75 A Kind of Merry War: The Play Much Ado About Nothing 179

Quiz 76 O! Beware My Lord of Jealousy: The Play Othello 181

Quiz 77 Cheated of Feature by Dissembling Nature: The Play Richard III 183

Quiz 78 For Never Was a Story of More Woe: The Play Romeo and Juliet 185

Quiz 79 Pluck My Magic Garment From Me: The Play The Tempest 187

Quiz 80 Laugh Yourself Into Stitches: The Play Twelfth Night 189

Quiz 81 A Sad Tale's Best for Winter: The Play The Winter's Tale 191

Section VI Just for Fun 195

Quiz 82 Wild and Whirling Words: Shakespearean Vocabulary 197

Quiz 83 I Smell a Device: Literary Features and Terms Used by Shakespeare 199

Quiz 84 The Articles Collected From His Life: Biography of William Shakespeare 201

Quiz 85 I Have a Sonnet Will Serve the Turn: Sonnets and Other Poetry 203

Quiz 86 The Numbers True: Statistical Shakespeare 206

Quiz 87 This Wooden O: The Theater of Shakespeare 208

Quiz 88 Behold the Poor Remains, Part I: Shakespearean Odds and Ends 210

Quiz 89 Behold the Poor Remains, Part II: Shakespearean Odds and Ends 213

Quiz 90 Let's Set Our Men in Order: Put Kings in Chronological Order 216

Quiz 91 Mince Not the General Tongue: Unscramble the Play Titles 216

Quiz 92 What's in a Name?, Part I: Unscramble Female Character Names 217

Quiz 93 What's in a Name?, Part II: Unscramble Male Character Names 218

Quiz 94 My Nearest Dearest Enemy: Find the Rivals Word Search 219

Quiz 95 I of These Will Wrest an Alphabet: Shakespeare A-Z Crossword Puzzle 220

Answer Key 223

Grading Scales 225

Bibliography 281

About the Author 283

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