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Tough Shakespearean Quotes Trivia Quiz

We've all heard them, but who said it? Shakespeare really did know it all, didn't he?

A multiple-choice quiz by hypmom. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
hypmom

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
1,005

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
3012

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'She doth teach the torches to burn bright!' Hint

Mercutio

Romeo

Othello

Valentine

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'But, for my part, it was all Greek to me.' Hint

Brutus

Portia

Iago

Casca

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.' Hint

Isabella

Falstaff

Mercutio

Cleopatra

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty,' Hint

Regan

Claudio

Cleopatra

Goneril

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'Frailty, thy name is woman!' Hint

Edmund

King Lear

Angelo

Hamlet

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'O, beware, my lord, of jealousy. It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on'. Hint

Othello

Iago

Henry II

Paris

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.' Hint

Mercutio

Pertuchio

Lady Capulet

Gloucester

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!' Hint

Juliet

Ophelia

Desdemona

Horatio

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.' Hint

Julius Caesar

Mark Antony

Polonius

Brutus

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear.' Hint

Puck

Oberon

Titania

Edmund

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'She doth teach the torches to burn bright!'

Answer: Romeo

Luigi da Porto first named the doomed lovers Romeo and Giulietta in his 'novella' c. 1530

2. 'But, for my part, it was all Greek to me.'

Answer: Casca

Casca was the first of the conspirators to stab Caesar.

3. 'A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.'

Answer: Mercutio

Actually, Mercutio says this twice after he is stabbed by Tybalt.

4. 'Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty,'

Answer: Goneril

Shakespeare's source for this plot,which includes a tragic ending, is probably Philip Sidney's 'Arcadia' 2.10.

5. 'Frailty, thy name is woman!'

Answer: Hamlet

Hamlet said this referring to his mother, Gertrude who had an affair with her brother-in-law, Claudius.

6. 'O, beware, my lord, of jealousy. It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on'.

Answer: Iago

Ironically, until he was exposed in the end, Iago was referred to as 'honest Iago' throughout most of 'Othello'.

7. 'If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.'

Answer: Mercutio

Mercutio wasn't a jester, but he liked to make fun of Romeo's search for perfect love using bawdy metaphors like, 'O, that she were an open-arse and thou a poppering pear!'

8. 'Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!'

Answer: Horatio

Horatio to the slain Hamlet.

9. 'The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.'

Answer: Mark Antony

Spoken in his soliloquy in response to Caesar's murder.

10. 'If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear.'

Answer: Puck

No, he's not the {sandman;} Puck is the mischievous fairy from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

Source: Author hypmom

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