The Comedy of Errors
  • 1. In which city is the setting for 'The Comedy of Errors'?
A) Syracuse
B) Ephesus
C) Rome
D) Athens
  • 2. Who grants Aegeon one day to pay his fine in 'The Comedy of Errors'?
A) Adriana
B) Duke Solinus
C) Antipholus of Ephesus
D) Aegeon's wife
  • 3. What does Antipholus of Syracuse send Dromio to do in Act I?
A) Deposit some money at The Centaur, an inn
B) Meet his brother
C) Find a ship
D) Buy food for dinner
  • 4. Who is Adriana concerned about in 'The Comedy of Errors'?
A) Her husband's eye straying
B) Her sister's marriage
C) Her brother's safety
D) Her own business
  • 5. What does Antipholus of Syracuse discover he is attracted to in Act III?
A) A courtesan
B) Adriana
C) Emilia
D) His 'wife's' sister, Luciana
  • 6. Who tries to exorcize the Ephesians in Act IV?
A) Pinch, a conjurer
B) Angelo
C) The Duke
D) Antipholus of Syracuse
  • 7. Who reveals herself as Aegeon's wife in Act V?
A) Emilia
B) Luciana
C) The Abbess
D) Adriana
  • 8. What classical play is 'The Comedy of Errors' adapted from?
A) Menaechmi by Plautus
B) Lysistrata by Aristophanes
C) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
D) Antigone by Sophocles
  • 9. Which Shakespeare play is noted for adhering to the classical unities?
A) King Lear
B) Hamlet
C) Macbeth
D) The Comedy of Errors
  • 10. Who wrote that 'The Comedy of Errors' reveals Shakespeare's magnificence at the art of comedy?
A) Harold Bloom
B) Stanley Wells
C) Eric Heinze
D) Charles Whitworth
  • 11. When was 'The Comedy of Errors' first performed in Gray's Inn Hall?
A) 28 December 1604
B) 31 December 1593
C) 28 December 1594
D) 1 January 1595
  • 12. Which adaptation of 'The Comedy of Errors' featured black-a-moors as the Dromios?
A) See If You Like It; or, 'Tis All a Mistake
B) The Twins
C) Every Body Mistaken
D) Oh! It's Impossible by John Philip Kemble
  • 13. Who composed the opera 'Gli equivoci' based on 'The Comedy of Errors'?
A) Richard Rodgers
B) Iša Krejčí
C) Stephen Storace
D) Guy Woolfenden
  • 14. Which musical adaptation of 'The Comedy of Errors' won the Laurence Olivier Award for best musical?
A) Bomb-itty of Errors
B) The Boys from Syracuse
C) A New Comedy of Errors
D) The Comedy of Errors by Trevor Nunn and Guy Woolfenden
  • 15. Which Indian novelist adapted 'The Comedy of Errors' into a Bengali novel?
A) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
B) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
D) Rabindranath Tagore
  • 16. Which film starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland involves twins switched at birth?
A) Start the Revolution Without Me
B) A Merry Mix Up
C) Big Business
D) Our Relations
  • 17. Which TV series episode is based on 'The Comedy of Errors'?
A) A two-part TV adaptation produced in the USSR
B) 'Zanzibar' from Inside No. 9
C) 'Comet-y of Errors' from Bob's Burgers
D) A BBC complete works series directed by James Cellan Jones
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