Shakespeare in Love and the Elizabethan era
A multiple choice quiz
1. The action takes place in
London
Stratford-upon-Avon
Virginia
Cambridge
2. The Queen of England at that time was
Elisabeth II
Victoria
Elisabeth I
Mary
3. In Shakespeare’s time, women couldn’t
go into a theatre
perform on a stage
smoke
be queens
4. From time to time playhouses were shut down in London because of
lack of audience
public immorality
the plague
any of them
5. The person in charge of the stage censorship -closing down theatres- was called the
Master of the Rebels
Master of the Revels
Rebellious Master
Royal Overseer
6. Lord Wessex’s American business was based on
cotton
tobacco
gold mines
slavery
7. That greedy mouse-loving teenager who betrayed Will and Viola became, several years later, one of the most famous English playwrights of his time. His name was
John Webster
Thomas Moore
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Johnson
8. Those people who had no money for a seat in the balcony and stood around the stage during the play were called
upstanders
beggars
shoeless
groundlings
9. One of these plays was not written by Shakespeare:
Romeo and Juliet
Twelfth Night
Doctor Faustus
The Tempest
10. And one of this plays was written by William Shakespeare:
The White Devil
The Jew of Malta
The Massacre at Paris
Othello
