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