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Cymbeline

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Cymbeline game quiz
"This is a quiz about a beautiful, but sometimes neglected, Shakespeare play."

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1. What is the generally-accepted date for the composition of William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline"?
    1510-01
    1610-11
    1560-61
    1660-61


2. What sources did Shakespeare use for the plot of "Cymbeline"?
    only Boccaccio
    he seems to have invented the whole plot himself
    only Holinshed
    both Boccaccio and Holinshed


3. How was the play - surprisingly in view of its happy ending - listed upon its first publication, in the posthumous "First Folio" of Shakespeare's collected works in 1623?
    as a romance
    as a comedy
    as a tragedy
    as a history play


4. At the time of the play's action, which Caesar is ruling the Roman Empire?
    Julius
    Octavius
    Claudius
    Tiberius


5. Who is Cymbeline?
    the principal hero of the play
    the British King
    the principal villain of the play
    a Roman god


6. Why is the hero of the play called Posthumus?
    for neither of these reasons
    simply because his father died before he was born
    for both of these reasons
    simply because his mother died giving birth to him


7. What is the heroine's name in "Cymbeline"?
    Marina
    Perdita
    Miranda
    Imogen


8. Why does Iachimo leave his Italian home to visit Britain?
    he has been plotting with the British Queen
    he wants to join Cymbeline's army
    he wants to win a bet with Posthumus
    he wants to kidnap Imogen


9. How does Iachimo secrete himself into Imogen's bed-chamber?
    disguised as a maidservant
    hiding in a trunk
    down the chimney
    through a trapdoor


10. What colour are Imogen's eyes?
    dark brown
    hazel
    green
    blue


11. Which one of these things does Iachimo *not* mention during his soliloquy in the sleeping Imogen's bedchamber?
    Imogen has been reading about the rape of Philomel
    Imogen is wearing a bracelet
    there is a sculpture of a pair of Cupids in the room
    Imogen has a mole on her left breast


12. To whom does Cloten say of Imogen: "If you can penetrate her with your fingering, so; we'll try with tongue too: if none will do, let her remain"?
    the Queen
    his soldiers
    his musicians
    Pisanio


13. How does the song begin which is sung below Imogen's window?
    Come away, come away, death
    Hark! hark! the lark at Heaven's gate sings
    It was a lover and his lass
    O mistress mine, where are you roaming?


14. Which character says to the Roman envoy who has come to Britain to demand tribute money, "We will nothing pay for wearing our own noses; ... if Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute for light"?
    Cymbeline
    Cloten
    Posthumus
    the Queen


15. To which Welsh port does Posthumus sail on his way back from Italy to Cymbeline's court?
    Criccieth
    Milford Haven
    Fishguard
    Tenby


16. Who are Polydore and Cadwal?
    Belarius's natural children
    a pair of evil Welsh bandits
    disreputable friends of Cloten
    the long-lost sons of Cymbeline


17. Which character in the play disguises himself/herself as the youth "Fidele"?
    the Queen
    Pisanio
    Imogen
    the Doctor


18. Which episode in "Cymbeline" has traditionally been thought by critics not to be Shakespeare's own work?
    the extremely complicated happy ending
    the song "Fear no more the heat o' th' sun"
    Posthumus's dream-vision in gaol
    Posthumus's meeting with the gaoler


19. Which one of these lines of Shakespeare's does *not* appear in "Cymbeline"?
    O, the charity of a penny cord!
    Hang there like fruit, my soul, till the tree die!
    O, for a Muse of fire!
    O, for a horse with wings!


20. Which Shakespearean commentator remarked of "Cymbeline" that he would not "waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation"?
    S.T.Coleridge
    Samuel Johnson
    Edward Dowden
    Dr F.R.Leavis


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