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