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