12th Grade Shakespeare Quiz | AP English 20 Questions with Answers
AP Lit Grade 12 Shakespeare Literature Quiz! 20 questions: Hamlet “To be or not to be,” Macbeth witches prophecy, Romeo Tybalt duel, iambic pentameter, Shakespearean sonnet ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, King Lear daughters.
Shakespeare Literature Quiz For Grade 12
Grade 12 AP English Shakespeare quiz: Hamlet soliloquy, Jaques “All world’s stage,” ABAB CDCD EFEF GG sonnets, Macbeth witches, Tybalt Romeo duel, Othello green-eyed monster, Merchant pound flesh.
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#1. Which character: “Brevity is soul of wit” (Polonius)?
Explanation:Â Act 2, Scene 2 irony (verbose Polonius). Hamlet mocks pretentious counselor.
#2. In Romeo and Juliet, who challenges Romeo to duel?
Explanation:Â Act 3, Scene 1. Tybalt (Capulet) kills Mercutio; Romeo avenges. Escalates feud to tragedy.
#3. Macbeth’s wife urges: “Give suck” speech about _____?
Explanation:Â Act 1, Scene 7. “I have given suck… dashed brains out.” Suppresses maternal instinct for power.
#4. Merchant of Venice: Shylock demands “pound of _____”?
Explanation:Â Antonio bond for Bassanio’s loan. “Hath not a Jew eyes?” famous speech.
#5. What device: Juliet = sun, Romeo = pilgrim?
Explanation:Â Extended metaphors/conceits. Balcony scene: celestial, religious imagery.
#6. Which comedy: twins separated by shipwreck?
Explanation:Â Viola/Cesario disguise; Orsino/Olivia love triangle. “If music be the food of love, play on.”
#7. What structure: 5 acts, rising/falling action?
Explanation:Â Freytag pyramid: exposition, rising action, climax (Act 3), falling, catastrophe/denouement.
#8. Who says “All the world’s a stage” in As You Like It?
Explanation:Â Act 2, Scene 7. “Seven ages of man” speech: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, second childishness. Metaphor for life stages.
#9. Which comedy features lovers enchanted in Athenian woods?
Explanation:Â Oberon/Puck mischief; Theseus/Hippolyta wedding. Bottom’s ass-head transformation.
#10. In Tempest, where does play primarily take place?
Explanation:Â Prospero’s magical island. Late romance; themes forgiveness, colonialism, art/nature.
#11. Which Shakespeare play contains “To be, or not to be” soliloquy?
Explanation:Â Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1. Famous existential contemplation on suicide/life’s burdens. “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”
#12. Who is tragic hero in Othello (manipulated by Iago)?
Explanation:Â Moorish general; jealousy destroys. “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster.”
#13. What is Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme (first 12 lines)?
Explanation:Â English/Shakespearean sonnet: 14 lines iambic pentameter. 3 quatrains + volta (turn) + couplet resolution.
#14. Which play features three witches prophesying to Macbeth?
Explanation:Â “Scottish play” (superstition). Act 1: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” Prophecies: Thane Cawdor, king, no man born of woman, Birnam Wood.
#15. In which tragedy does Lear divide kingdom between daughters?
Explanation:Â Goneril/Regan flatter; Cordelia truthful (disinherited). “Nothing will come of nothing.”
#16. Who kills King Duncan in Macbeth?
Explanation:Â Act 2, Scene 2 dagger hallucination. “Is this a dagger which I see before me?”
#17. Who betrays Caesar: “Et tu, Brute?”
Explanation:Â Act 3, Scene 1 assassination. Noble Brutus joins conspiracy (honor vs loyalty).
#18. Sonnet 18 begins: “Shall I compare thee to a _____ day?”
Explanation:Â Fair youth sequence. “Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” Immortality through poetry.
#19. What meter dominates Shakespearean verse?
Explanation:Â Unstressed-stressed: da-DUM Ă—5. Blank verse (unrhymed). Natural English speech rhythm.
#20. Sonnet form: 14 lines, volta typically where?
Explanation:Â Shakespearean: quatrains build problem; sestet (couplet) resolves. Italian: octave/sestet.