Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’ ?

Related Mcqs:

1. I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be–while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

2. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, how does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptualize the character of Hamlet ?

   A. As a crazed fool
   B. As a profound philosophical genius
   C. As boyish and immature
   D. As a brilliant warrior

3. In his essay, “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, William Hazlitt conceptualizes Hamlet as_______________?

   A. a disturbed and insane man.
   B. a man of tremendous humor, simplicity, and innate goodness and kindness.
   C. a depressed but ultimately good and nonviolent man.
   D. a wicked and manipulative man.

4. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, what does William Hazlitt mean when he states the following: “We do not like to see our author’s plays acted, and least of all, ’Hamlet’. There is no play that suffers so much in being transferred to the stage” ?

   A. Hamlet cannot be staged properly because of the complexity of the play’s use of language.
   B. Hamlet is not relevant to the Romantic age.
   C. The role of Hamlet cannot be properly played by any actor.
   D. Hamlet is a work that was written to be read, not performed.

5. Which of the following characters is NOT found in the dramatis personae ofWilliam Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” ?

   A. Benvolio
   B. Lady Capulet
   C. Mercutio
   D. Falstaff

6. Which American writer published ’A brave and startling truth’ in 1996 ?

   A. Robert Hass
   B. Jessica Hagdorn
   C. Maya Angelou
   D. Micheal Palmer

7. Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid ?

   A. Hare told him of a large beast living near Bear’s home.
   B. Hare took out his quiver and showed him four arrows.
   C. Hare told thim that the country is full of wars.
   D. Hare threated to kill him.

8. According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?

   A. Thomas More.
   B. Francis Bacon.
   C. Earl of Oxford.
   D. John Shakespeare.

9. In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?

   A. Marlowe
   B. Swift
   C. Oxford
   D. Bacon

10. Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is___________________?

    A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
    B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
    C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
    D. None of the above