1. Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604, according to available records. It was published in the First Folio of ______?
A:) 1622
B:) 1623
C:) 1624
D:) 1625
springline- Correct option: B:) 1623
2. Measure for Measure was printed as a comedy in the first folio and continues to be classified as one. Though it shares features with other Shakespearean comedies, such as the use of wordplay and irony, and the employment of disguise and substitution as plot devices, it also features tragic elements such as executions and soliloquys, with Claudio's speech in particular having been favorably compared to tragic heroes like __?
A:) Romeo
B:) Brutus
C:) Prince Hamlet
D:) King Lear
springline- Correct option: C:) Prince Hamlet
3. Measure for Measure; The scene opens with a Lucio and a group of soldiers bantering on the topics of religion, prostitution, and sexual disease, as they walk along a Viennese street, hopeful that they will soon find work when war breaks out with Hungary. Mistress Overdone, the operator of a nearby brothel, interjects to scold them for their flippant talk. She compares their bad behavior to that of the relatively upstanding `______?
A:) Barnardine
B:) Angelo
C:) Claudio
D:) Escalus
springline- Correct option: C:) Claudio
4. Measure for Measure; One of the gentlemen, Claudio's friend, Lucio, a ‘fantastic’, is astonished at this news and rushes off. Pompey Bum, an employee of Mistress Overdone, enters as he leaves, bringing more distressing news:Who has issued a proclamation that all the brothels in the suburbs are to be torn down ?
A:) Mistress Overdone
B:) Claudio
C:) Isabella
D:) Angelo
springline- Correct option: D:) Angelo
5. Measure for Measure; Angelo, as the interim ruler of the city, has enforced laws that Vincentio had let slide, including an outdated legal clause stating that fornication is punishable by death. Hearing this, Who leaves to visit Claudio's sister, the novice nun Isabella, and asks her to intercede with Angelo on Claudio's behalf ?
A:) Vincentio
B:) Lucio
C:) Pompey
D:) Francisca
springline- Correct option: B:) Lucio
6. Measure for Measure; Following Lucio's revelation to her, Isabella quickly obtains an audience with Angelo, and pleads for mercy on Claudio's behalf. As they exchange arguments, Angelo is increasingly overcome with his desire for Isabella, and he eventually offers her a deal: Angelo will spare Claudio's life if Who yields him her virginity ?
A:) Barnardine
B:) Isabella
C:) Mistress Overdone
D:) Mariana
springline- Correct option: B:) Isabella
7. Measure for Measure; Who desperately begs Isabella to save his life, but Isabella, though torn, ultimately repeats her refusal to yield to Angelo, citing a belief that it would be wrong for her to sacrifice her own immortal soul to save his transient earthly life ?
A:) Mariana
B:) Juliet
C:) Claudio
D:) Abhorson
springline- Correct option: C:) Claudio
8. Measure for Measure; Angelo has previously refused to fulfill a betrothal binding him to the lady Mariana, despite her love for him, because her dowry was lost at sea. Isabella comes to an agreement with Whom ,and then sends word to Angelo that she has decided to submit to him with the condition that their meeting occurs in perfect darkness and in silence ?
A:) Lucio
B:) Mariana
C:) Peter
D:) Isabella
springline- Correct option: B:) Mariana
9. Measure for Measure; The Duke attempts to arrange the execution of another prisoner whose head could be sent in Claudio's place. However, the dissolute criminal Barnardine refuses to be executed in his drunken state. Instead, the head of a pirate named ________?
A:) Ragozine
B:) Provost
C:) Elbow
D:) Francisca
springline- Correct option: A:) Ragozine
10. Measure for Measure; The plot comes to a climax with the ‘return’ to Vienna of the Duke himself. Isabella and Mariana publicly petition him, and he hears their claims against Angelo, which Angelo smoothly denies. As the scene develops, it appears that Who will be blamed for the accusations leveled against Angelo ?
A:) Mistress Overdone
B:) Vincentio
C:) Isabella
D:) Friar Lodowick
springline- Correct option: D:) Friar Lodowick
11. Measure for Measure; The Duke leaves Angelo to judge the cause against Lodowick, returning in his disguise when Lodowick is summoned moments later. When Angelo attempts to seal the case against Lodowick. Who reveals himself, thereby exposing Angelo as a liar and confirming the allegations brought by Isabella and Mariana ?
A:) Claudio
B:) the Duke
C:) Mariana
D:) Lucio
springline- Correct option: B:) the Duke
12. A sub-plot concerns Claudio's friend Lucio, who frequently slanders the duke to the friar, and in the last act slanders the friar to the duke, providing opportunities for comic consternation on Vincentio's part and landing Lucio in trouble when it is revealed that the duke and the friar are one and the same. Lucio's punishment is to be forced into marrying ______?
A:) Kate Keepdown
B:) Juliet
C:) Mariana
D:) Pompey
springline- Correct option: A:) Kate Keepdown
13. Measure for Measure; The play draws on two distinct sources. The original is ‘The Story of Epitia’, a story from Cinthio's Gli Hecatommithi, first published in 1565. Shakespeare was familiar with this book as it contains the original source for Shakespeare's ___?
A:) Tempest
B:) Othello
C:) Hamlet
D:) Macbeth
springline- Correct option: B:) Othello
14. Measure for Measure; Who also published the same story in a play version with some small differences, of which Shakespeare may or may not have been aware. The original story is an unmitigated tragedy in that Isabella's counterpart is forced to sleep with Angelo's counterpart, and her brother is still killed ?
A:) Charles Gildon
B:) Samuel Pepys
C:) Cinthio
D:) W.H. Auden
springline- Correct option: C:) Cinthio
15. Measure for Measure is believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. The play was first published in 1623 in the First Folio.In their book Shakespeare Reshaped, 1606–1623, Gary Taylor and John Jowett argue that part of the text of Measure that survives today is not in its original form, but rather the product of a revision after Shakespeare's death by _____?
A:) Thomas Middleton
B:) Jerry Stiller
C:) Henry Purcell
D:) Charles Gildon
springline- Correct option: A:) Thomas Middleton
16. Braunmuller and Watson summarize the case for Middleton, suggesting it should be seen as ‘an intriguing hypothesis rather than a fully proven attribution’. David Bevington suggests an alternate theory that the text can be stylistically credited to the professional scrivener Ralph Crane, who is usually credited for some of the better and unchanged texts in the Folio like that of _?
A:) Othello
B:) The Tempest
C:) Macbeth
D:) Hamlet
springline- Correct option: B:) The Tempest
17. Measure for Measure; The play's main themes include justice, ‘morality and mercy in Vienna’, and the dichotomy between corruption and purity: ‘some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall’. Mercy and virtue prevail, as the play does not end tragically, with virtues such as compassion and Which being exercised at the end of the production?
A:) forgiveness
B:) Revenge
C:) Salvation
D:) Guilty
springline- Correct option: A:) forgiveness
18. During the Restoration, Measure was one of many Shakespearean plays adapted to the tastes of a new audience. Sir William Davenant inserted Benedick and Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing into his adaptation, called The Law Against Lovers. Samuel Pepys saw the hybrid play on 18 February ___?
A:) 1661
B:) 1662
C:) 1663
D:) 1664
springline- Correct option: B:) 1662
19. Who returned to Shakespeare's text in a 1699 production at Lincoln's Inn Fields and his adaptation, entitled Beauty the Best Advocate, removes all of the low-comic characters and Moreover, by making both Angelo and Mariana, and Claudio and Juliet, secretly married, he eliminates almost all of the illicit sexuality that is so central to Shakespeare's play ?
A:) Samuel Pepys
B:) Sir William Davenant
C:) Charles Gildon
D:) Richard Waring
springline- Correct option: C:) Charles Gildon
20. Measure for Measure; Who produced the play in 1893 at the Royalty and in 1908 at the Gaiety in Manchester, with himself as Angelo. In line with his other Elizabethan performances, these used the uncut text of Shakespeare's original with only minimal alterations ?
A:) William Poel
B:) Henry Purcell
C:) John Rich
D:) Lily Brayton
springline- Correct option: A:) William Poel
21. Measure for Measure; The main source for the play is ,Whose 1578 lengthy two-part closet drama Promos and Cassandra, which itself is sourced from Cinthio. Who adapted Cinthio's story by adding the comic elements and the bed and head tricks ?
A:) William Davenant
B:) George Whetstone
C:) Charles Gildon
D:) Henry Purcell
springline- Correct option: B:) George Whetstone
22. Measure for Measure; Notable 20th century productions of Measure for Measure include Charles Laughton as Angelo at the Old Vic Theatre in 1933, and Peter Brook's 1950 staging at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre with John Gielgud as Angelo and Barbara Jefford as _______?
A:) Isabella
B:) Vincentio
C:) Mistress overdone
D:) Francisca
springline- Correct option: A:) Isabella
23. Measure for Measure; The main character, Isabella, is a very virtuous and chaste young woman who faces a difficult decision when her brother is sentenced to death for fornication . Isabella does not approve of her brother's actions at all, but she pleads for his life out of loyalty and sisterly devotion. She starts off wanting to become a____?
A:) priest
B:) nun
C:) rich
D:) monk
springline- Correct option: B:) nun
24. Measure for Measure; Escalus is a wise lord who advises Angelo to be more merciful. He is loyal to the Duke and seeks to carry out his orders justly, but cannot go against Angelo's will. Who described by Shakespeare as a ‘fantastic,’ is a flamboyant bachelor who provides much of the play's comedic content and he is a friend of Claudio's and tries to help him ?
A:) Barnardine
B:) Francisca
C:) Angelo
D:) Lucio
springline- Correct option: D:) Lucio
25. Measure for Measure; Who is the villain of the play, a man who rules strictly and without mercy and he has his own weaknesses, however, and he is loathsome more for his hypocrisy than for anything else and he presents Isabella with a difficult proposition and then does not even hold up his end of the bargain ?
A:) Vincentio
B:) Angelo
C:) Francisca
D:) Lucio
springline- Correct option: B:) Anglo
26. Measure for Measure; Mariana was supposed to marry Angelo, but he called the wedding off when she lost her dowry in a shipwreck that killed her brother. Who is a clown who also works for Mistress Overdone ?
A:) Pompey
B:) Juliet
C:) Peter
D:) Provost
springline- Correct option: A:) Pompey
27. Measure for Measure; A long-term prisoner in the jail, Barnadine is sentenced to be executed together with Claudio. The Duke originally considers him hopeless and therefore dispensable but later changes his mind. Who is Claudio's lover, she is pregnant with his baby ?
A:) Mistress overdone
B:) Isabella
C:) Juliet
D:) Provost
springline- Correct option: C:) Juliet
28. William Shakespeare; The ceremony may have been arranged in some haste since the Worcester chancellor allowed the marriage banns to be read once instead of the usual three times, and six months after the marriage Anne gave birth to a daughter, Susanna, baptised 26 May 1583. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of __?
A:) 12
B:) 10
C:) 11
D:) 13
springline- Correct option: C:) 11
29. Shakespeare was not revered in his lifetime, but he received a large amount of praise. In 1598, the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English playwrights as ‘the most excellent’ in both comedy and tragedy. The authors of the Parnassus plays at St John's College, Cambridge, numbered him with Chaucer, Gower, and ____?
A:) John Dryden
B:) William Langland
C:) William Godwin
D:) Edmund Spenser
springline- Correct option: D:) Edmund Spenser
30. In the First Folio, Who called Shakespeare the ‘Soul of the age, the applause, delight, the wonder of our stage’, although he had remarked elsewhere that ‘Shakespeare wanted art’ (lacked skill) ?
A:) John Dryden
B:) Dr. Johnson
C:) Mathew Arnold
D:) Ben Jonson
springline- Correct option: D:) Ben Jonson