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