- 1. Who introduced each act of 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre' with a prologue?
A) Helicanus
B) Simonides
C) John Gower
D) Antiochus
- 2. What was the main inspiration for 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'?
A) Gower's Confessio Amantis
B) Lawrence Twines' The Pattern of Painful Adventures
C) The Bible
D) Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 3. How many lines in 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre' are attributed to Shakespeare?
A) 827 lines
B) 1000 lines
C) 1609 lines
D) 835 lines
- 4. Who is believed to have written the first two acts of 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Thomas Middleton
C) George Wilkins
D) Ben Jonson
- 5. In which year was the first printed edition of 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre' published?
A) 1635
B) 1611
C) 1609
D) 1623
- 6. Which character in 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre' is engaged in an incestuous relationship with her father?
A) Antiochus's daughter
B) Thaisa
C) Philoten
D) Marina
- 7. Where does Pericles win a tournament and marry Thaisa?
A) Ephesus
B) Tyre
C) Tarsus
D) Pentapolis
- 8. What event causes Thaisa to appear to die in 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'?
A) A shipwreck without a storm
B) An illness on land
C) Murder by pirates
D) A storm at sea during childbirth
- 9. Who revives Thaisa after she is washed ashore?
A) Helicanus
B) Lord Cerimon
C) Dionyza
D) Simonides
- 10. What role does Marina take on in Mytilene?
A) Priestess in the temple of Diana
B) Bawd in a brothel
C) Servant to Cleon and Dionyza
D) Tutor to respectable young ladies
- 11. Who is revealed to be Pericles' daughter during his visit to Mytilene?
A) Thaisa
B) A servant girl
C) Philoten
D) Marina
- 12. Which goddess appears in a dream to Pericles, leading him to Thaisa?
A) Diana
B) Minerva
C) Venus
D) Juno
- 13. What is the fate of Cleon and Dionyza at the end of 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'?
A) They are forgiven by Pericles.
B) They become rulers of Tarsus.
C) They flee to Ephesus.
D) They are killed when their people revolt against their crime.
- 14. Who is Lysimachus in 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'?
A) A pirate captain
B) The governor of Mytilene
C) A fisherman
D) A servant of Pericles
- 15. Which critic found the moment of Pericles' reunion with his daughter to be one of the finest 'recognition scenes'?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) Edward Dowden
C) Ben Jonson
D) Harold Bloom
- 16. Which actor is credited with making Shakespeare's play part of the theatrical repertoire in the mid-seventeenth century?
A) Paul Scofield
B) Thomas Betterton
C) Samuel Phelps
D) John Rhodes
- 17. Who directed a notable 1984 BBC Television Shakespeare series adaptation of 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'?
A) Tony Richardson
B) Adrian Noble
C) Terry Hands
D) David Jones
- 18. Which director's 2002 production at the Roundhouse stressed multicultural aspects of the play?
A) Adrian Noble
B) Dominic Dromgoole
C) Mary Zimmerman
D) David Thacker
- 19. Who was the actor that played Pericles in the 2016 Guthrie Theater production directed by Joseph Haj?
A) Alfred Enoch
B) Tom Mannion
C) James Garnon
D) Christian Camargo
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