DBE in Louisiana - 2000 Pub Night Shakespeare Quiz Answers

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Check your answers to the 2000 Shakespeare Quiz

1. Wife of Brutus.
    Stabs herself in thigh as proof of courage.
    Swallows fire to kill herself.

          c. Portia

2. Queen of the Fairies.
    Wife of Oberon.
    Falls in love with Bottom, the weaver.

          b. Titania

3. Character in both "Richard II" & "Henry IV Part 1"
    Nickname for Henry Percy
    Leads rebellion against King Henry.

          b. Hotspur

4. Court jester in "As You Like It"
    Goes through the woods with Celia and Rosalind.
    Marries a goatherd named Audrey

          b. Touchstone

5. A Venetian general.
    Describes himself as "an honourable murderer"
    Smothers Desdemona

          a. Othello

6. Mother of Hamlet.
    Marries King Claudius
    Dies from poisoned wine

          c. Gertrude

7. A gentleman of Verona.
    Comes to Padua in search of a wife.
    Marries Katharina

          b. Petruchio

8. Daughter of King Lear.
    Poisons her sister.
    Stabs herself.

          b. Goneril

9. A moneylender.
    Father of Jessica.
    He asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?"

          c. Shylock

10. Described as a "fiendlike Queen".
    Urges her husband to kill Duncan.
    She is seen sleepwalking.

          a. Lady Macbeth