Starter quiz
- 'Macbeth' is a play. Which of the following are features of plays?
- dialogue ✓
- designed to be performed ✓
- divided into chapters
- divided into acts ✓
- stage directions ✓
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- What was William Shakespeare famous for writing?
- sonnets (poems) ✓
- plays ✓
- narrative poems ✓
- pamphlets
- articles
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- Shakespeare lived from 1564 to 1616. He experienced life under two monarchs. Which monarchs?
- Queen Victoria
- King Edward VII
- Queen Elizabeth I ✓
- King James I ✓
- Queen Anne
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- 'Macbeth' is a tragedy. Which of the below are also considered Shakespearean tragedies?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Othello ✓
- Hamlet ✓
- The Tempest
- Romeo and Juliet ✓
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- 'Macbeth' is a tragedy. Which of the following are features of Shakespearean tragedies?
- the supernatural
- the death of the hero ✓
- marriage
- the rise and fall of a character ✓
- mistaken identity
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- 'Macbeth' starts with terrible weather - thunder and lightening - and three witches. What inferences could we make about this opening?
- It is designed to make us laugh
- It is designed to make us think
- It is designed to scare us ✓
- It is designed to signal the supernatural themes ✓
- It is designed to signal it is a play about a hero
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