MULTIPLE CHOICE
1 Voltaire
2 Coleridge
3 Shaw
4 Tolstoy
2) Which of the following commentators of Shakespeare’s art did not underline his characters’
individualization through speech?
1 Margaret Cavendish
2 Alexander Pope
3 T.S. Eliot
4 M.C. Bradbrook
1 dialogue
2 life
3 reality
4 action on stage
1 Chaucer
2 Sir Philip Sidney
3 Christopher Marlowe
4 Ovid
1 George Volceanov
2 Harold Bloom
3 Leon Levitchi
4 Muriel Bradbrook
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7) Harold Bloom has defined Shakespeare’s characters as
1 self-mimickers
2 self-overhearers
3 self-imitators
4 self-inventors
1 corrupter
2 speaker
3 mimicker
4 loser
9) The girl using disguise (cross-dressing) and speaking “like a saucy lackey” in As You Like It is
1 Viola
2 Audrey
3 Phebe
4 Rosalind
1 the Countess of Salisbury, who imitates King David of Scotland and herself
2 the Countess of Salisbury
3 King David of Scotland
4 King David and the Countess of Salisbury
1 Belarius
2 Guiderius
3 Arviragus
4 Cloten
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13) Patroclus mimics Agamemnon and his loyal retainers in
16) Countenance, gesture, body language, and… equally contribute to the act of mimicking.
1 intonation
2 laughter
3 mood
4 feeling
1 As You Like It
2 Hamlet
3 King Lear
4 Henry V
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19) The word for word repetition means
1 cross-dressing
2 monologue
3 a play within a play
4 a rapid exchange of one-line cues
21) Cacozelia is
1 a type of repetition
2 affected diction
3 a combination of puns and antonyms
4 a type of cacophony
1 King Lear
2 Hamlet
3 Henry V
4 All’s Well That Ends Well
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25) The same comic device (inventing a foreign language) will be used by
1 Moliere
2 Caragiale
3 Voltaire
4 John Webster
1 social betters
2 social equals
3 social inferiors
4 their best friends
27) The clown in All’s Well That Ends Well imitates the language of
28) Touchstone in As You Like It is the best example of a man who can imitate
1 sermo sublimis
2 sermo humilis
3 sermo sublimis and sermo humilis simultaneously
4 a clown
1 in a clown’s jokes
2 in a disguised heroine’s acting
3 in the presentation of supernatural phenomena
4 in the feudal rites and ceremonies of the history plays
1 a master of music
2 a master of philosophy
3 a servant
4 as an old woman
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31) Feste’s role in Twelfth Night was specially written for the famous actor
1 Richard Tarlton
2 Will Kemp
3 Robert Armin
4 William Shakespeare himself
1 two people
2 three people
3 four people
4 five people
34) Edgar in King Lear (IV.6) manages to kill Oswald while pretending he is
1 a yokel
2 a clown
3 a madman
4 a Frenchman
35) Bottom, Quince, Snout, and other mechanicals imitate the jargon of professional actors in
1 a matter of scorn
2 picking up silly fashions
3 echoing idiotic phrases
4 a precondition of linguistic life
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37) Olivia in Tewlfth Night falls in love with a young “page” named
1 Cesario
2 Viola
3 Sebastian
4 Malvolio
39) In 2 Henry IV, Falstaff, the fat knight, imitates the three styles of
1 Greek oratory
2 Roman oratory
3 sermo sublimis
4 sermo humilis
41) Proteus, Julia’s former lover, reduces her, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, to the status of
1 a monkey
2 an ape
3 a boy
4 a whore
1 the aside
2 el gracioso
3 les mots justes
4 Shakespeare’s knowledge of Latin
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43) In the case of mimicry in pseudo-praesentia
1 his originality
2 the weakness of his invented plots
3 his unique use of dramatic irony
4 his memorable characters
1 intellective modality
2 emotive modality
3 volitive modality
4 the use of antonyms
1 consciously
2 unconsciously
3 deliberately
4 stupidly
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49) Rene Berger coined the notion of
51) In the last two acts of Othello, the Moor thinks of Desdemona
52) In The Merchant of Venice, the ironic mimicry of Jessica and Lorenzo
1 ends up in disaster
2 ends with a punch line
3 ends with a kiss
4 ends with a fight
53) Jessica and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice refer to heroines from
1 Italian novellas
2 Greek mythology
3 Latin mythology
4 Ovid’s poems
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55) In Shakespeare’s plays
1 a lack of originality
2 an emotive process
3 an intellectual process
4 an insult
1 Christopher Marlowe
2 Robert Greene
3 George Chapman
4 Ben Jonson
1 Marlowe’s Locrine
2 Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
3 Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois
4 Jonson’s Volpone
1 a weak woman
2 a strong woman
3 a usurped monarch
4 a fearful murderess
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61) Self-mimicry is a notion that can be best explained in terms
1 self-memory
2 self-disguise
3 self-communication
4 self-pity
1 addresser
2 addressee
3 reference
4 self-mimicker
65) Among the best examples of characters practicing self-mimicry, we can mention
66) Macbeth’s opening line in the Scottish tragedy closely echoes the ominous words of
1 King Duncan
2 the three witches
3 Macduff
4 Banquo
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67) In Othello and Macbeth, linguistic contamination leads to
72) The battles of wits or sexes in The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado… take the form of
1 mutual mimicry
2 self-mimicry
3 redundancy
4 economy
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73) The ritualistic use of mimicry, in which messengers are the bearers of off-stage characters,
is specific of
1 tragedies
2 comedies
3 history plays
4 romances
74) A famous scene of ‘mass mimicry’, with several rounds of multiple mimicry occurs in As You
Like It, in a scene elicited by
1 Phebe
2 Rosalind disguised as Ganymede
3 Orlando
4 Silvius
75) In the ‘mass mimicry scene’ in As You Like It several characters declare their love for
someone; in the declarations below there is a false statement. Which one is it?
76) A post-modern version of stichomythia is the use of… in the theatre of the absurd.
1 short cues
2 long cues
3 monologues
4 battle of sexes
77) The post-modern dramatist who succeeded in endowing his characters with the sparkling wit
of Shakespeare’s characters is
1 Harold Pinter
2 Samuel Beckett
3 Tom Stoppard
4 Oscar Wilde
1 Theseus
2 Aristotle
3 Plato
4 Palamon
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79) The king who ‘shall imitate the action of a tiger’ is
1 Richard III
2 Edward III
3 Henry IV
4 Henry V
80) The imitation of other people’s speech, behaviour, or fashion is criticized by Shakespeare in
81) A character that definitely refuses to imitate other people’s fashion is… in The Two Noble
Kinsmen.
1 Palamon
2 Arcite
3 Theseus
4 Creon
83) In Twelfth Night Sir Andrew Aguecheek takes down notes as he is impressed by
1 Feste’s songs
2 Viola’s vocabulary
3 Sir Toby’s jokes
4 Fabian’s jokes
1 Bardolph
2 Falstaff
3 Prince Hal
4 Mistress Quickly
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85) Falstaff has been labelled by critics in several ways. Which of the following answers is
wrong?
1 Protean personality
2 a vicious personality
3 a generous nature
4 an angelic character
1 destroyer
2 neglecter
3 instigator
4 observer
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91) Hal’s experiments in predictable human behaviour include the tricks played on
92) In his impersonation of Henry IV, Falstaff is careful in suiting his words and action to the
occasion, thus observing the rule of
1 decorum
2 honour
3 politics
4 comedy
93) Hal… has the initiative in his dialogues with his ‘mentor’ Falstaff.
1 almost never
2 never
3 more often than not
4 always
1 gratuitous fun
2 subversive purposes
3 making the audience laugh
4 creating a tragic atmosphere
1 Hal’s hypocrisy
2 Hal’s double status of public and private person
3 Hal’s loyalty to his old friend
4 Falstaff’s desire to leave the court
1 underestimate Harry
2 overestimate Harry
3 kill Harry
4 ambush Harry
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97) The Dauphin, unlike the Constable of France perceives Harry as a
1 great soldier
2 vain humorous youth
3 a nice fellow
4 a silly drunkard
1 actor
2 warrior
3 foolish
4 Christian
100) To the Princess of France, Harry addresses the famous words: “I speak to thee like a plain…”
1 soldier
2 citizen
3 man
4 lover
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