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Possibly Shakespeare's first play features Valentine and Proteus, two gentlemen who may be from Verona, but who travel to Milan for most of the action. Issues of love and friendship, and the foolish behavior exhibited by those in love, are themes that he used again.
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  10 Questions about The Two Gentlemen of Verona editor best quiz    
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"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!" sighs Julia, the patient and put-upon heroine of this early and slightly rough-edged romantic comedy of Shakespeare's, which is as chock-full of little surprises as an Italian love story can be.
Tough, 10 Qns, londoneye98, Jan 07 15
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  The Two Gentlemen Of Verona Multiple Choice Quiz    
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Here's a quiz for those of you who've read Shakespeare's 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona'.
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, JCSon, Dec 18 01
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Two Gentleman of Verona Trivia Questions

1. What are the names of the two eponymous "Gentlemen of Verona"?

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Answer: Valentine and Proteus

It is tempting to say that only one of the two - Valentine - is truly a "gentleman" (at least in today's terms) and that his friend, the mercurial and aptly-named Proteus, behaves badly almost from start to finish. Andrew Dickson - always a good critic to turn to when looking for ways into Shakespeare - describes the two young men as "youthful best friends at an emotional crossroads", who find themselves, as the story unfolds, irresistibly attracted to the same woman. Dickson calls the play "a comedy about what it feels like to be young" - and although it is the men who are dignified in the title, the two young women in the main story are covered by this description too. The well-bred women in Shakespeare's comedies are usually more admirable than the men: it scarcely feels as though the Bard is flattering women in this respect, for partly he is following a convention of romantic comedy and partly, perhaps, registering his own perception that well-brought-up young women tend to have a much more mature attitude to life than their male counterparts. In writing of Julia, Edward Dowden in the nineteenth century saluted Shakespeare's first assay into recording "the tender and passionate history of a woman's heart", and Julia always expresses herself with great conviction: "Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,/Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow/As seek to quench the fire of love with words," she says to her waiting-woman.

2. Who did Julia disguise herself as?

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Answer: Sebastian

3. Who was banished by the Duke for plotting to steal away with his daughter?

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Answer: Valentine

4. Why does Proteus not wish to follow his adventurous friend Valentine to Milan, to see the world as his father wishes him to do?

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Answer: he is in love with Julia

The mutual love between Julia and Proteus is very convincingly portrayed, down to Julia's little tricks and feignings which do not deceive either herself or her maid, Lucetta. Having dramatically torn up a love-letter from Proteus in front of her maid, she then - as soon as she is alone - kisses the torn pieces and tries to put them together again. Her feelings for Proteus are soon enough admitted to him, but unfortunately for the loving pair, Proteus is then ordered by his father to leave his love and follow Valentine to Milan. He expresses his frustration in quintessentially naive early Shakespearean verse: "O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away." Proteus, a fascinating sketch of an unstable and unreliable hero whose weaknesses are potentially tragic, is given more soliloquy time than anyone else in this play, and also much of its finest poetry: "For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sounds." The young Shakespeare's debt to the lyrical blank verse of Christopher Marlowe's plays is obvious in passages like this.

5. Complete the last line of the play. 'One feast, one house, _______________.'

From Quiz The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Answer: one mutual happiness & One mutual happiness & One Mutual Happiness

6. Who did Silvia ask to bring the self-portrait she was to give to Proteus?

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Answer: Ursula

7. Locked in a tower by her father to keep unwelcome lovers away from her, Silvia is powerless to escape until Valentine comes up with a cunning plan. How does he intend to rescue Silvia from her prison so that they can elope together?

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Answer: by throwing a rope-ladder up to her window

Valentine's plan is thwarted by the treacherous Proteus, who immediately reveals it to the Duke, with the result that poor Valentine is banished from Milan, with death awaiting him if he does not leave. Having gained the Duke's trust, Proteus is then asked by him to speak to Silvia in order to put in a word for a foolish but wealthy suitor called Thurio, who has the Duke's support. Proteus agrees, but of course with no intention of praising the stolid, slow-witted Thurio: he wants to win Silvia for himself. Having already been "false to Valentine," as he admits to himself, he must now "be as unjust to Thurio."

8. Who was Proteus' clownish servant?

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Answer: Launce

9. Complete the following line spoken by Julia. 'Her hair is auburn, __________________.'

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Answer: mine is perfect yellow & Mine is perfect yellow & Mine is Perfect Yellow & Mine Is Perfect Yellow

10. What is the outcome of Valentine's chance meeting with a band of outlaws in the forest near Mantua?

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Answer: he becomes leader of the outlaw gang

The outlaws are impressed by Valentine's aristocratic bearing and by the convincing lie he tells them about having been banished from Milan for killing a man in a fair fight. It has to be said that the scenes involving this troupe of renegades scarcely show Shakespeare at his most inspired, but since this play is, after all, a comedy, the lack of originality in the writing can arguably be turned to advantage by some judicious overacting and audience-pleasing on the part of these improbable and implausible brigands. It is a good opportunity for comic relief before the more serious matter of the main love plot returns.

11. What happened to Proteus' dog?

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Answer: It was stolen by the hangman's boys

12. Who composed the original music to the beautiful lyric "Who is Silvia?", which is sung beneath its dedicatee's window at night, after Valentine's banishment, with Proteus and Thurio in attendance?

From Quiz The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Answer: we have no idea

The three English composers listed were all small boys around 1590, when the play was written - although some twenty years later Robert Johnson collaborated musically with Shakespeare to great creative effect in "Cymbeline" and "The Tempest". The original music to "Who is Silvia?" has, like that of various other Shakespearean songs, been lost - a victim, no doubt, of the neglect this play seems to have fallen into during Shakespeare's lifetime and afterwards. Franz Schubert famously set a German translation of the words to music in the early 1800s, and the original English words actually fit his setting delightfully. Some might think that the classical Viennese idiom is scarcely suitable for Shakespeare in general, but anyone who listens to what the renowned King's Singers from Cambridge have done with Schubert's version (it is easy to find on youtube) should be able to imagine how this kind of arrangement could go with a zing in many a performance of the play. The lyrics of "Who is Silvia?" are so lovely that they surely become part of the meaning of this play, and should certainly be regarded as one of the principal highlights of any self-respecting production. They are sung on behalf of the foolish suitor Thurio, but I see them as a kind of eternal justification for the idealistic, youthful romantic longings of Valentine: "Then to Silvia let us sing That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling. To her let us garlands bring." Artificial, yes, but resonating with romantic idealism. The medieval courtly traditions of chivalry towards high-born women are evidently somewhere behind this feeling, and certain commentators, taking their cue from H.B.Charlton's book "Shakespearian Comedy" (1930), have suggested that Shakespeare is satirising the unreality of such traditions throughout this play, even in the song. Perhaps, but I would prefer to think that - even if, as seems unlikely, the young playwright did set out with purely satirical intentions - there was so much else going on in his head as he was writing the play that much of the force of the satire is lost.

13. What was the name of Launce's dog?

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Answer: Crab & crab & CRAB

14. The forest where the outlaws lived was near what city?

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Answer: Mantua

15. Who was sent to call Proteus' servant to join him on the ship?

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Answer: Panthino

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