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Quiz - Shakespearean Comedy and Midsummer Night's Dream

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24 questions
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Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, Jonson, and Thomas Kyd were all actors and playwrights during which period?

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During this period, all of the following were typically true of art/drama EXCEPT:

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Which of the following is NOT true about Tragedies during this period?

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Which of the following is NOT true about Comedies during this period?

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BOTH tragedy and comedy can contain humor. Comic characters and laughter is a common trope of this age of drama.

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Romantic Comedies specifically focus on the human "weakness" or "madness" of love.

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Romantic Comedies typically are straight lols, attempting to make the audience laugh from beginning to end.

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Romantic Comedies balance heartbreak and frustration and loss with romance and love.

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Romantic Comedies were popular in the 1500s, but have since died out as a popular genre and are no longer typically being written today.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream would qualify as which of the following genres?

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The author of this play is...

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This play was written in...

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This play is set in...

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Who is the hero or protagonist of this story?

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Theseus tells Hermia she must marry the man her father wants her to marry

OR she must choose between one of the following options EXCEPT...

(hint - this is the key conflict at the start of the novel)

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Complete the following relationship as of Act 1/2:

Hermia likes _________, but is engaged (technically) to _________ .

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Complete the following relationship as of Act 1/2:

Helena likes _________, but he is in love with _________ .

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Complete the following relationship as of Act 1/2:

Egeus wants his daughter _____ to marry _____ .

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Complete the following relationship as of Act 1/2:

Theseus is engaged to ______, but it's complicated.... mythologically speaking.

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Complete the following relationship as of Act 1/2:

Oberon is engaged to ______, but it's complicated....

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Draggable itemCorresponding Item
Theseus
Fairy King
Bottom
Fairy Queen
Hippolyta
King of Athens
Titania
Queen of the Amazonians
Puck / Robin Goodfellow
a troublesome fairy, right hand to the King
Oberon
a weaver, a *rude* mechanical who is an actor in play within this play
Quince
a carpenter, the director of the play within the play
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In the play, allusions are made to all of the following EXCEPT:

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The tone of this play could best be described as...

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the major themes/motifs of this play are...