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Quiz about The Key to a Happy Marriage

The Key to a Happy Marriage Trivia Quiz


A lot of Shakespeare plays end with a wedding, but what of the characters who spend most of their plays married? Identify the play where the following married couples try to work things out!

A multiple-choice quiz by merylfederman. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
358,733
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
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Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which play has a royal couple (a king and queen) dealing with the king's rocky relationship with his stepson/nephew who may be mad, the murder of a courtier, and the suicide of a young woman from the castle? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Which play has Bertram forcefully married to Helena in the beginning, and trying to flee her for most of the action? Their marriage survives Bertram's low attempts to bed the Italian virgin Diana and even a war! Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which late comedy features the married couple Posthumus and Imogen navigating Posthumus' banishment, Imogen's presumed death, and a successful plot to convince Posthumus that Imogen was unfaithful? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In which tragedy does a noble couple jointly decide to kill their king so that they can become royalty? She cooks up the plot and he carries it out - and they take up the throne together, to their fatal detriment. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In this tragedy, the title character spends the entire play married to a Venetian woman, and they survive her father's disowning her and being sent into a war zone on a foreign island. What they don't survive is a conniving liar who dupes the title character into believing his wife has been unfaithful. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which tragedy features a noble couple with one child, a daughter who they try to marry off to a count - but who mysteriously "dies" on the day of her wedding, only to reappear actually dead with her true husband whom the parents would not have approved of? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In which history play do we meet a king and his wife Isabel, who are forcefully parted and divorced by the king's usurper? The usurper Henry sends Isabel back to France and the title king to a prison, breaking up that king's reign and his marriage in one go. Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In which gruesome tragedy does the emperor Saturninus marry Goth Queen Tamora in Act One? Their marriage is largely a sham - Tamora is much older and has a lover who fathers her next child, while Saturninus is a childish, powerless Emperor who she leads around by the nose. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. In which "comedy" do Bassanio and Portia marry early on, but face a quick separation and a bizarre subplot where Bassanio can't keep a promise to his new wife? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In which late play do the king Leontes and his wife Hermione face Leontes' unfounded wrath against her, which leads to the death of one of their children, the banishment of their other child, and a 16-year-separation before getting their reconciliation? Hint





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1. Which play has a royal couple (a king and queen) dealing with the king's rocky relationship with his stepson/nephew who may be mad, the murder of a courtier, and the suicide of a young woman from the castle?

Answer: Hamlet

"Hamlet," the classic - Claudius and Gertrude spend the entire play married, but face Hamlet's madness, Polonius' death, and Ophelia's suicide, which many readers and critics theorize drives them apart. By the end of the play, Claudius tells Laertes how passion fades over time, which may be a glancing reference to his marriage.
2. Which play has Bertram forcefully married to Helena in the beginning, and trying to flee her for most of the action? Their marriage survives Bertram's low attempts to bed the Italian virgin Diana and even a war!

Answer: All's Well That Ends Well

"All's Well That Ends Well" features this awful forced wedding of the Count Bertram to the lovesick Helena. He doesn't love her, but challenges her to an impossible task to win his love - get his prized ring from his hand, and become pregnant with his child. Let's just say she's a lot smarter than he is, so... their "love" wins out.
3. Which late comedy features the married couple Posthumus and Imogen navigating Posthumus' banishment, Imogen's presumed death, and a successful plot to convince Posthumus that Imogen was unfaithful?

Answer: Cymbeline

"Cymbeline," a play named for Imogen's father and king of Britain, features the princess marrying a commoner named Posthumus Leonatus in the backstory. Her father banishes Posthumus, who is then duped by the Italian Iachimo into thinking that Imogen is unfaithful. Posthumus even orders his own wife's death after this - but as it's a comedy, it all ends up shockingly okay.
4. In which tragedy does a noble couple jointly decide to kill their king so that they can become royalty? She cooks up the plot and he carries it out - and they take up the throne together, to their fatal detriment.

Answer: Macbeth

In "Macbeth," the title character and his wife Lady Macbeth hear a prophecy that Macbeth will be king, and they choose to kill the king to help bring the prophecy about. Their marriage pretty much falls apart after he becomes king; they start keeping secrets from each other, and face death alone.
5. In this tragedy, the title character spends the entire play married to a Venetian woman, and they survive her father's disowning her and being sent into a war zone on a foreign island. What they don't survive is a conniving liar who dupes the title character into believing his wife has been unfaithful.

Answer: Othello

"Othello" features the marriage of Othello and Desdemona. They face lots of problems, but Iago's sheer destructive power cannot be overcome. Iago convinces Othello of his wife's infidelity, and Othello kills her before he discovers the truth.
6. Which tragedy features a noble couple with one child, a daughter who they try to marry off to a count - but who mysteriously "dies" on the day of her wedding, only to reappear actually dead with her true husband whom the parents would not have approved of?

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

"Romeo and Juliet" features Lord and Lady Capulet, whose one daughter is the title Juliet. Both Lord and Lady Capulet try to convince Juliet to marry Paris, but she falls in love with Romeo instead, and marries him. She then needs to avoid a bigamist marriage with her parents' choice of suitor, and that is how the rest of the tragedy unfolds.
7. In which history play do we meet a king and his wife Isabel, who are forcefully parted and divorced by the king's usurper? The usurper Henry sends Isabel back to France and the title king to a prison, breaking up that king's reign and his marriage in one go.

Answer: Richard II

"Richard II" tells the story of Richard II's deposition by Henry IV. After Richard loses his crown, he is conveyed to the Tower of Pomfret - while his wife is sent back home to France (his wife was Isabel of Valois, Princess of France and older sister to Henry V's future wife). Richard sums up his feelings about this separation with the line "Bad men! You violate a twofold marriage!"
8. In which gruesome tragedy does the emperor Saturninus marry Goth Queen Tamora in Act One? Their marriage is largely a sham - Tamora is much older and has a lover who fathers her next child, while Saturninus is a childish, powerless Emperor who she leads around by the nose.

Answer: Titus Andronicus

"Titus Andronicus" features a political battle between Saturninus and his younger brother Bassianus - after Saturninus wins and becomes Emperor, he demands Titus' daughter Lavinia in marriage. But when Lavinia escapes him, he marries Tamora (Titus' sworn enemy) in revenge.

The marriage is terrible and Tamora is a notorious adulteress, while Saturninus is an incredibly irresponsible ruler.
9. In which "comedy" do Bassanio and Portia marry early on, but face a quick separation and a bizarre subplot where Bassanio can't keep a promise to his new wife?

Answer: Merchant of Venice

Bassanio wins Portia's hand in marriage, but then soon hears of his friend Antonio's plight in "Merchant of Venice." He tells his wife that his friend Antonio is in mortal danger, and flees to his friend's side. Portia joins him, posing as a lawyer, and in disguise, successfully gets Bassanio to give her the ring that she had given him, swearing him to never give it away.

But give it away (to his wife!) he does, leading to quite the confrontation...
10. In which late play do the king Leontes and his wife Hermione face Leontes' unfounded wrath against her, which leads to the death of one of their children, the banishment of their other child, and a 16-year-separation before getting their reconciliation?

Answer: A Winter's Tale

"A Winter's Tale" is the story of Leontes, the tyrant king who works himself into a frenzy of belief that his wife's new daughter isn't his. His son dies, his daughter is abandoned in a foreign country, and Hermione leaves him for 16 years, and his family only reunites after that entire time.
Source: Author merylfederman

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