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  • 1. What general topic includes Women in Shakespeare?
A) Elizabethan tax law
B) Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works
C) Modern novel criticism
D) Renaissance painting history
  • 2. Which main character from the sonnets has elicited a substantial amount of criticism?
A) The Rival Poet
B) Fair Youth
C) The Muse
D) Dark Lady
  • 3. When did criticism of the Dark Lady receive added impetus?
A) First-wave feminism of the 1890s
B) The Romantic period of the 1800s
C) The Elizabethan era of the 1600s
D) Second-wave feminism of the 1960s
  • 4. What celestial bodies are named after women in Shakespeare?
A) Several moons of Uranus
B) Moons of Jupiter
C) Craters on Mars
D) Rings of Saturn
  • 5. In Shakespeare's tragedies and plays, female characters are often:
A) Completely ignored by the audience
B) Underestimated
C) Voiceless extras
D) Always the villains
  • 6. What can female characters do regarding male heroes?
A) Always outlive them
B) Surpass them
C) Always obey them blindly
D) Never influence them
  • 7. What was illegal for women in Shakespeare's day regarding public performances?
A) To direct actors
B) To appear on the stage
C) To purchase tickets
D) To write plays
  • 8. Who was expected to perform female theatrical roles in Shakespeare's time?
A) Only children under ten
B) Boys or men
C) Foreign actresses
D) Retired monarchs
  • 9. What did some Elizabethan male actors specialize in?
A) Special effects
B) Female roles
C) Animal costumes
D) Musical interludes
  • 10. Early criticism of female characters in Shakespeare focused on what attributes?
A) Historical inaccuracies
B) Positive attributes
C) Costume designs
D) Flaws and vices
  • 11. Early critics often claimed Shakespeare realistically captured the essence of what?
A) Military strategy
B) Tragic despair
C) Political power
D) Femininity
  • 12. Who wrote the study 'The Women of Shakespeare'?
A) Anna Jameson
B) Helen Zimmern
C) Louis Lewes
D) The editors of The Woman's Part
  • 13. Who wrote the preface to the English translation of 'The Women of Shakespeare' in 1895?
A) Anna Jameson
B) William Shakespeare
C) Helen Zimmern
D) Louis Lewes
  • 14. According to Helen Zimmern, Shakespeare's women are among his most what?
A) Unrealistic and absurd figures
B) Weak and forgettable characters
C) Attractive and original creations
D) Boring and predictable villains
  • 15. What did Louis Lewes say the poet's magic wand laid open?
A) The secrets of the universe
B) The political corruption of the court
C) The depths of woman's nature
D) The history of ancient Rome
  • 16. According to Louis Lewes, what plays a dangerous and fatal part in woman's nature?
A) Cold calculations
B) Foolish innocence
C) Terrible passions
D) Blind obedience
  • 17. When did the early period of women in Shakespeare criticism end?
A) Beginning of the twentieth century
B) At the death of Shakespeare
C) In 1895
D) During the 1960s
  • 18. How is the early period of women in Shakespeare criticism characterized?
A) Radical feminist revolution
B) Strictly historical analysis
C) Complete rejection of the plays
D) A very conventional tone and treatment
  • 19. What did the early period of criticism confirm?
A) Female domination
B) The abolition of monarchy
C) Equal rights in the workplace
D) Female submission
  • 20. What is the title of the 1983 collection referencing 19th-century women authors?
A) Shakespeare's Heroines
B) Characteristics of Women
C) The Woman's Part
D) The Women of Shakespeare
  • 21. Who wrote 'Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women', originally published in 1832?
A) Louis Lewes's translator
B) Anna Jameson
C) Helen Zimmern
D) Louis Lewes
  • 22. How many fictional biographies in novel form of Shakespeare's heroines from 1885 were referenced in The Woman's Part?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) One
  • 23. How do early critics feel when Shakespeare's heroines behave 'unwomanly'?
A) Uneasy
B) Indifferent
C) Enthusiastic
D) Delighted
  • 24. What do adaptations of Shakespeare's heroines' stories praise in a style that today appears effusive?
A) Girlish sweetness and modesty
B) Rebellious courage and cunning
C) Political ambition and ruthlessness
D) Intellectual superiority and strength
  • 25. What term did the editors of The Woman's Part use to describe the limitations of early female critics and authors?
A) Culturally induced limitations
B) Universal human truths
C) Intentional dramatic flaws
D) Permanently fixed biological traits
  • 26. Who is the author of Enter the Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage (2001)?
A) Helene Cixous
B) William Shakespeare
C) Carol Chillington Rutter
D) Judith Butler
  • 27. In King Lear, whose body does Carol Chillington Rutter focus on as her father carries her onto the stage?
A) Cordelia
B) Ophelia
C) Goneril
D) Reagan
  • 28. Whose body in the grave does Carol Chillington Rutter focus on in her book?
A) Ophelia
B) Desdemona
C) Cordelia
D) Emilia
  • 29. At the end of which play does Carol Chillington Rutter focus on the bodies of two women on a bed?
A) Macbeth
B) Hamlet
C) King Lear
D) Othello
  • 30. Which female character appears in The Comedy of Errors?
A) Adriana
B) Beatrice
C) Bianca
D) Celia
  • 31. In which play does the character Beatrice appear?
A) The Taming of the Shrew
B) Twelfth Night
C) Much Ado About Nothing
D) As You Like It
  • 32. Which character is from The Taming of the Shrew?
A) Olivia
B) Hero
C) Bianca
D) Viola
  • 33. Which character appears in As You Like It alongside Rosalind?
A) Cressida
B) Cleopatra
C) Celia
D) Cordelia
  • 34. Which character is married to Othello?
A) Adriana
B) Emilia
C) Bianca
D) Desdemona
  • 35. In which play does Gertrude appear?
A) King Lear
B) Macbeth
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
  • 36. Which character is one of Lear's daughters alongside Cordelia and Reagan?
A) Hero
B) Imogen
C) Isabella
D) Goneril
  • 37. Which character appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream along with Helena and Hippolyta?
A) Julia
B) Hero
C) Juliet
D) Hermia
  • 38. In which play do both Hermia and Titania appear?
A) Twelfth Night
B) A Midsummer Night's Dream
C) The Winter's Tale
D) The Tempest
  • 39. Which character appears in All's Well that Ends Well?
A) Hermione
B) Helena
C) Hippolyta
D) Hero
  • 40. Which character appears in Much Ado About Nothing alongside Beatrice?
A) Julia
B) Katherina
C) Juliet
D) Hero
  • 41. In which play does Hermione appear?
A) The Tempest
B) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
C) The Winter's Tale
D) The Merchant of Venice
  • 42. Which character appears in Cymbeline?
A) Julia
B) Juliet
C) Isabella
D) Imogen
  • 43. In which play does Isabella appear?
A) The Merchant of Venice
B) Macbeth
C) Measure for Measure
D) Much Ado About Nothing
  • 44. Which character is from The Two Gentlemen of Verona?
A) Katherina
B) Juliet
C) Lavinia Andronicus
D) Julia
  • 45. Which character is famously known as a shrew in the play sharing its name?
A) Cleopatra
B) Bianca
C) Desdemona
D) Katherina
  • 46. In which play does Lady Macbeth appear?
A) Macbeth
B) King Lear
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
  • 47. Which character is from Titus Andronicus?
A) Lavinia Andronicus
B) Margaret of Anjou
C) Tamora
D) Paulina
  • 48. Which character appears in The Tempest?
A) Maud
B) Marina
C) Margaret
D) Miranda
  • 49. Which character appears in Twelfth Night along with Viola?
A) Portia
B) Paulina
C) Ophelia
D) Olivia
  • 50. Which character appears in The Merchant of Venice?
A) Perdita
B) Portia
C) Paulina
D) Phoebe
  • 51. In which play does The Princess of France appear?
A) All's Well that Ends Well
B) Measure for Measure
C) The Winter's Tale
D) Love's Labour's Lost
  • 52. Which character appears in The Winter's Tale alongside Hermione and Perdita?
A) Portia
B) Rosalind
C) Phoebe
D) Paulina
  • 53. Who is Perdita's mother in The Winter's Tale?
A) Desdemona
B) Cleopatra
C) Hermione
D) Paulina
  • 54. Which daughter of King Lear is spelled Reagan in the text?
A) Regan
B) Regina
C) Rachel
D) Reagan
  • 55. Which character is from As You Like It?
A) Viola
B) Rosalind
C) Olivia
D) Rosaline
  • 56. Which character is noted in the text as being 'only referenced' in Romeo and Juliet?
A) Hermia
B) Rosaline
C) Juliet
D) Helena
  • 57. Which character appears in Titus Andronicus alongside Lavinia Andronicus?
A) Thisbe
B) Titania
C) The Three Witches
D) Tamora
  • 58. Which character is a queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
A) Hermia
B) Hippolyta
C) Helena
D) Titania
  • 59. In which play does Viola appear?
A) The Tempest
B) The Winter's Tale
C) The Taming of the Shrew
D) Twelfth Night
  • 60. Which character appears in Coriolanus?
A) Volumnia
B) Valeria
C) Viola
D) Vandora
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