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'Much Ado About Nothing' is often considered one of Shakespeare's finest comedies for its mixture of romance, mistaken identity, slapstick humor and more serious reflections on the nature of honour. Will Beatrice and Benedick realise their feelings for each other? And will Hero convince Claudio of her faithfulness?
4 quizzes and 50 trivia questions.
1.
  "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on who said what in one of Shakespeare's best comedies. Although he stole the Hero and Claudio relationship from classic stories of the time, the Beatrice/Benedick romance was entirely his own.
Average, 10 Qns, rgdsmile, Feb 15 05
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rgdsmile
2053 plays
2.
  Shakespeare's ' Much Ado About Nothing'    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
A slightly more difficult quiz on one of Shakespeare's best comedies.
Average, 15 Qns, durikaj, May 15 19
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durikaj
May 15 19
2093 plays
3.
  Who Said What in "Much Ado"?    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Full of witty dialogue and memorable lines, "Much Ado About Nothing" is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. If you haven't read the play, I recommend it prior to playing this quiz. Just choose the correct character for each quote below - enjoy!
Average, 15 Qns, MALibrarian, Mar 14 07
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MALibrarian
1834 plays
4.
  Much Ado About Nothing    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz for anyone who loves 'Much Ado About Nothing.' It is not very hard, if you know the play!
Average, 10 Qns, Melody270, Jan 05 07
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Melody270
4952 plays
trivia question Quick Question
"Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a thousand ducats."

From Quiz "Who Said What in "Much Ado"?"





Much Ado About Nothing Trivia Questions
1. "I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina."

From Quiz Who Said What in "Much Ado"?

Answer: Leonato

A messenger has arrived with this letter for Leonato, the governor of Messina, alerting him to the imminent arrival of the prince, Don Pedro of Arragon.

2. The action in "Much Ado About Nothing" takes place in which town/city?

From Quiz Shakespeare's ' Much Ado About Nothing'

Answer: Messina

This is mentioned in the very first line of the play, when Leonato states "I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina." Another Shakespeare comedy, "The Taming of the Shrew", splits its time between Padua and Verona.

3. At the very begining of the play, who asks this of the messenger, "I pray you is Signor Montanto returned from the wars or no?"

From Quiz "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes

Answer: Beatrice

"Signor Montanto" is actually Signor Benedick of Padua as explained by Beatrice's cousin Hero when the messenger says, "I know none of that name lady." Montanto is a fencing term for an upward thrust. Even now at these early stages of the play we can see that Benedick is not in Beatrice's good books.

4. Where does the play take place?

From Quiz Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: Messina

5. "What, my dear Lady Disdain? Are you yet living?"

From Quiz Who Said What in "Much Ado"?

Answer: Benedick

Benedick, who has long fought a merry verbal war with Beatrice, responds to her first jab at him upon his arrival at Leonato's house.

6. Who says, "What my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?"

From Quiz "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes

Answer: Benedick

"Lady Disdain" is Beatrice. She, with her sharp mind and quick tongue, replies, "Is it possible that disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come in her presence." So begins a short argument full of quips and scorns at each other, only ending in Benedick's jade's trick.

7. Who is the head of the household where the men go when they return home (the beginning of the play)?

From Quiz Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: Leonato

8. "Can the world buy such a jewel?"

From Quiz Who Said What in "Much Ado"?

Answer: Claudio

Claudio, enamored of the lovely Hero and wanting to make her his wife, asks this rhetorically of Benedick. Benedick's jaded response is, "Yea, and a case to put it into."

9. Benedick makes all the following observations about Hero except for which one?

From Quiz Shakespeare's ' Much Ado About Nothing'

Answer: She's too short for a tall praise

During his conversation with Claudio, Benedick does make mention of Hero's being short, but he never says she's "too short for a tall praise."

10. Who is the Prince of Aragon?

From Quiz Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: Don Pedro

11. "How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burn'd an hour after."

From Quiz Who Said What in "Much Ado"?

Answer: Beatrice

Leonato asks after Don John, the Prince's half-brother, and whether or not he was at supper. This was Beatrice's funny remark regarding Don John's looks and expression.

12. Complete the quote: in Act II, Scene 1, Leonato says to Beatrice, "Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly." Beatrice replies, "I have a good eye, uncle. I can see ____"?

From Quiz Shakespeare's ' Much Ado About Nothing'

Answer: A church by daylight

Beatrice is a confirmed bachelorette, and makes many speeches telling how there is no man good enough to marry her.

13. Don Pedro says this to whom, "I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love"?

From Quiz "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes

Answer: Benedick

Benedick has just announced, "I will live a bachelor" to Don Pedro and Claudio. He lives to regret these words and we hear him mention them later on. He goes on to say, "With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord, not with love."

14. Who is supposed to marry Claudio?

From Quiz Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: Hero

15. "Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a thousand ducats."

From Quiz Who Said What in "Much Ado"?

Answer: Don John

Don John just will not be nice! He and Borachio have arranged a situation to convince Claudio of Hero's supposed immodesty, and Don John here tells Borachio what his payment will be for this plan.

16. Who performs the weddings?

From Quiz Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: Friar Francis

17. "When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."

From Quiz Who Said What in "Much Ado"?

Answer: Benedick

After being tricked by Don Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio into believing that Beatrice is madly in love with him and afraid of his rejection, Benedick determines that her love will be returned. He convinces himself that it will be okay to marry, despite all of his previous protestations to the contrary.

18. What is Don Pedro's minstrel's name?

From Quiz Shakespeare's ' Much Ado About Nothing'

Answer: Balthazar

Balthazar sings "Hey nonny nonny!" to Don Pedro, Claudio and Leonato in Act III, Scene 3.

19. Who says "So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing, I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away"?

From Quiz "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes

Answer: Hero

The revelers, or Don Pedro's friends, have come in masked and one has just asked Hero, "Lady, will you walk about with your friend?" It is Don Pedro who has promised Claudio to woo Hero on his account. Don John, always on the look out for opportunities to creat mayhem, hearing of this, tells Claudio that the prince woos for himself. However this is soon put to rights by the prince, Leonato, Beatrice and most importantly, Hero.

20. Who was a follower of Don John's?

From Quiz Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: Conrade

21. "They did entreat me to acquaint her of it; but I persuaded them, if they lov'd Benedick, to wish him wrestle with affection, and never to let Beatrice know of it."

From Quiz Who Said What in "Much Ado"?

Answer: Hero

Now the ladies have their turn, tricking Beatrice into believing Benedick to be madly in love with her! Hero makes this statement, knowing that Beatrice is eavesdropping on her conversation.

22. Beatrice states that a man who has one is more than a boy, and a man who has none is less than a man. To what is she referring?

From Quiz Shakespeare's ' Much Ado About Nothing'

Answer: A beard

Since she won't accept a man who has a beard, nor one who has none, she's pretty much taken herself out of the running for a husband!

23. Who says, "Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it"?

From Quiz "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes

Answer: Beatrice

Beatrice insulted Benedick, not knowing he was himself as he was masked. Benedick told of it to Don Pedro who then tells Beatrice that she has lost the heart of Signior Benedick. Her response shows that they were once in love before.

24. Who hated Beatrice in the beginning of the play and loved her in the end?

From Quiz Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: Benedick

25. "But know that I have to-night wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the name of Hero; she leans me out at her mistress' chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good night - I tell this tale vilely."

From Quiz Who Said What in "Much Ado"?

Answer: Borachio

All for a thousand ducats!

26. Benedick says the woman he marries will have all the following attributes, except which?

From Quiz Shakespeare's ' Much Ado About Nothing'

Answer: Blonde hair

Actually, he says that "her hair shall be of what color it please God." Although with his list (rich, wise, virtuous, noble, a good conversationalist, an excellent musician), he may be narrowing the field a bit too much!

27. Who says, "No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she should so dote on Signor Benedick, whom she hath in all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor"?

From Quiz "Much Ado About Nothing" Quotes

Answer: Leonato

Don Pedro has decided to take upon him "one of Hercules's labours, that is to bring Signor Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection, th' one with th' other." This is to pass the time until the wedding of Claudio and Hero. Claudio, Hero, Leonato, Antonio, Margaret and Ursula have all agreed to help.

28. Who is called a 'Lady Disdain'?

From Quiz Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: Beatrice

29. "Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?"

From Quiz Who Said What in "Much Ado"?

Answer: Leonato

Leonato sure did believe Claudio quick enough, if you ask me. Didn't he know his own daughter well enough to trust her innocence?

30. When Hero is supposedly having relations before her wedding, who is really in the window?

From Quiz Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: Margaret

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