Stories Of Disguise Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jacob

Rebecca helps Jacob obtain Isaak's blessing by dressing him up as his elder twin brother Esau. Isaac had grown old and blind and was unable to see what his wife and Jacob were up to.

Answer: Achilles

Every time humans try to escape their fates that have already been predicted by divine prophecies, the stratagems of defence ultimately fail. Nobody runs away from his fate, as is illustrated by the case of Oedipus. Patroclus is also spelled Patrocles.

Answer: a shabby old beggar

Eumaus is the swineherd who receives Odysseus at his home but does not see through his disguise. Then Telemachus comes, does not recognize his father either, but then is told by Odysseus who is who.
Odysseus then discusses with Telemachus his plan to secretly visit his court and to observe his wife Penelope's wooers.

Answer: his nurse Eurycleia

His former nurse Eurycleia recognized him when she was called upon to wash his feet. She knew him from an old scar on his leg. He was also recognized by his faithful dog Argus, whom Odysseus found dying on a dungheap.

Answer: the wolf-sheep is selected by the shepherd as his evening-meal

Not in all of Aesop's fables are the sheep victorious over the wolf.

Answer: Why do you have such long, sharp teeth?

Little Red Riding Hood - and also her grannie - are saved by a passing huntsman who shoots the bad wolf and then through some dexterous surgery cuts open the wolf's belly and delivers his two poor victims. In some versions the questions are: "Why do you have such big ears-such big hands-such a big mouth?" The story appears as "Rottkaeppchen" in Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm's "Kinder- und Hausmaerchen", published in 1812.

The story had already been published by Charles Perrault in his collection of fairy-tales from 1697.

Answer: Viola in "Twelfth Night"

Also Sylvia in "Two Gentlemen of Verona", and Nerissa and Jessica in "The Merchant of Venice" are roles in which a girl must disguise herself as a boy. For Shakespeare's audiences the "girl-is-boy" situations were even more complicated, as girls' roles were done by young boy actors rather than by actresses.
So the boy playing Viola was actually a boy-plays-girl-plays-boy role
in the larger part of the play.

Answer: Sand

In choosing the pen-name "George Eliot" the English woman-author Mary-Ann Evans was probably inspired by her French example. "George Sand", apart from her "friendships" with men, had same-sex relations with female artists such as the actress Marie Dorval and the singer Pauline Garcia.

Answer: Toad

Toad has been found guilty of stealing a motor car. In jail the jailer's daughter helps him to escape, disguised in the clothes of his Aunt, the Washerwoman. The story has its origin in the author's own family life. Kenneth Grahame's only child, Alastair, was born blind in one eye and with a squint in the other.

The education of Alastair proved difficult because just as Toad, the boy had to learn to fit in, to behave and control himself and accept some degree of humility. Kenneth, in a way similar to Mole, is attrracted by the irrepressible energy, inventiveness, and bravado of Alastair-Toad.

At 20 Alastair committed suicide.

Answer: The Prince And The Pauper

"The Prince and the Pauper" is the story of Edward Tudor changing clothes with Tom Canty, and all the effects this quid-pro-quo has on their lives. It is not the only example of Mark Twain's using "characters that disguise themselves". There is a funny example in "Huckleberry Finn" of Huck trying to deceive somebody into believing he is a girl (see Chapters Ten and Eleven). The old woman whom Huck wants to get information from does not believe him. She finds him out by suddenly throwing something into his lap. From the way he claps his legs she deduces he is not a girl. She says his name cannot be Sarah (Williams) as he had told her, but rather something like Bill, Tom or Bob.
Princes in disguise can be found in the world of operetta too: "The Student Prince" by Sigmund Romberg is a possible example.
It of course should not be forgotten that also in fairy tales metamorphoses of princes take place. Frogs turn out to be handsome princes in disguise. And there are more variations on the theme of "The Beauty And The Beast". "Poor Tom" is the disguise used by Edgar in "King Lear".