Fill in the blank. The plot of “Venus and Adonis” is based on passages from_____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. In Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis,” how is Adonis killed ?

   A. In a hunting accident
   B. By Venus
   C. By execution
   D. By old age

2. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

3. What literary genre is Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis” ?

   A. Short story
   B. Tragedy play
   C. Comedy play
   D. Poetry

4. To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ?

   A. Tragedies
   B. Historical Plays
   C. Narrative Poems
   D. Comedies

5. Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to________________?

   A. Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton
   B. Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of Southampton
   C. William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton
   D. Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of Southampton

6. Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debra Schwartz, Greek “new comedy” was often characterized as being ?

   A. Highly sexual
   B. Violent
   C. Satirical
   D. Dull and political

7. Fill in the blank. In the play, “Macbeth,” a number of characters refer to the Three Witches as________________?

   A. “The violent trio”
   B. “The Fatal Sisters”
   C. “The Weird Sisters”
   D. “The Dead Sisters”

8. Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debora Schwartz, Greek “old comedy” was often characterized as being ?

   A. Highly sexual
   B. Not comedic at all
   C. Satirical and political
   D. Grounded in religion

9. Fill in the blank. In the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Puck is also known as_____________?

   A. Oberon
   B. Robin Goodfellow
   C. Demetrius
   D. Hermia

10. Fill in the blank. In Shakespeare’s plays, prose is often used in_________________?

    A. Serious letters
    B. Iambic pentameter
    C. Rhyming verse
    D. Couplets