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Shakespeare in Love Test | Movies

This quiz includes quotes from the movie "Shakespeare in Love". You will have to either finish the quote, figure out who said it or whom it was said to. Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by kmarisa. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
kmarisa

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
104,339

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
4329

Last 3 plays: Guest 24 (7/10), adam36 (3/10), Dreessen (8/10).

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. What are the first three words that Will says to his psychologist? Hint

"Words, Words, Words"

"I'm not well"

"Who are you?"

"My feet hurt"

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Question 2 of 10

2. Rosaline asks Will "When will you write me a sonnet, Will?" What is his response? Hint

"Once you have honored me with a kiss."

"I have lost my gift."

"On yonder morn."

"Never."

3. The nurse is asking Viola about love and Viola is describing love as she wants to have it. Fill in the blank. "No...not the artful postures of love, but love that over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a ____
__ ___
_____, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture." Hint

Pheasant in a tree

Smile in the dark

Crime of great passion

Riot in the heart

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who is Will speaking to when he speaks this line? "Romeo and Rosaline, Scene One. God, I'm good!" Hint

Rosaline

Viola

Henslowe

Fennyman

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Question 5 of 10

5. This should be an easy one. Fill in the blank. "Was this the ____ that launched a thousand _____, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Hint

face, ships

king, battles

man, campaigns

hand, arrows

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Question 6 of 10

6. Marlowe is talking to Will about his new play, saying "I have a new one and better. 'The Massacre at Paris'." What is Will's reply? Hint

"Sounds bloody"

"Why Paris?"

"Good title"

"Not as good as mine"

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Question 7 of 10

7. When Viola finally meets Will, she says to him "Good sir, I heard you were a poet." He does not say anything in response, so she says to him "But a poet of __
_____?" Fill in the blank. Hint

no words

small stature

little eloquence

simple thoughts

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Question 8 of 10

8. Will says "Of course you have not. I have not written it." Who is he speaking to? Hint

Viola

Henslowe

Ned

The Nurse

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who says this line? "Are you a lady, Mister Kent?" Hint

Fennymen

Ned

Will

Henslowe

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Question 10 of 10

10. Thomas Kent asks Will to tell him how he loves Viola. Will replies "Like a ________ and its ____ together."
Hint

sun, moon

husband, wife

sickness, cure

canvas, paint

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Apr 17 2024 : Guest 24: 7/10
Apr 17 2024 : adam36: 3/10
Apr 16 2024 : Dreessen: 8/10
Mar 25 2024 : Guest 76: 2/10
Mar 23 2024 : kyleisalive: 10/10
Mar 22 2024 : Southendboy: 5/10
Mar 12 2024 : jackseleven: 1/10
Mar 11 2024 : Trufflesss: 8/10

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What are the first three words that Will says to his psychologist?

Answer: "Words, Words, Words"

This line was uttered in "Hamlet" by Hamlet, when asked what he was reading.

2. Rosaline asks Will "When will you write me a sonnet, Will?" What is his response?

Answer: "I have lost my gift."

To this she replies "You left it in my bed. Come to look for it again."

3. The nurse is asking Viola about love and Viola is describing love as she wants to have it. Fill in the blank. "No...not the artful postures of love, but love that over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a ____ __ ___ _____, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture."

Answer: Riot in the heart

Throughout the movie, love is described in the most wonderful ways, and this is one of them.

4. Who is Will speaking to when he speaks this line? "Romeo and Rosaline, Scene One. God, I'm good!"

Answer: Henslowe

Henslowe then replies "Rosaline? You mean Ethel!" He mistakenly corrects people many times in this manner throughout the movie.

5. This should be an easy one. Fill in the blank. "Was this the ____ that launched a thousand _____, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?"

Answer: face, ships

This is the most-repeated line in the movie. Almost everyone auditioning for the play used this line from one of Christopher Marlowe's plays, which Will was not very pleased about.

6. Marlowe is talking to Will about his new play, saying "I have a new one and better. 'The Massacre at Paris'." What is Will's reply?

Answer: "Good title"

Will compliments people for good names and titles several times throughout the movie.

7. When Viola finally meets Will, she says to him "Good sir, I heard you were a poet." He does not say anything in response, so she says to him "But a poet of __ _____?" Fill in the blank.

Answer: no words

He is then pulled aside by Lord Wessex and tells him that he is Christopher Marlowe, so that it will be hard to find him.

8. Will says "Of course you have not. I have not written it." Who is he speaking to?

Answer: Viola

He is trying to coach Thomas Kent and tells him about Act II, which Thomas says he hasn't read yet.

9. Who says this line? "Are you a lady, Mister Kent?"

Answer: Ned

Thomas Kent, who is really Viola, is listening to Ned's instructions that ladies should be downstage, and "he" goes downstage.

10. Thomas Kent asks Will to tell him how he loves Viola. Will replies "Like a ________ and its ____ together."

Answer: sickness, cure

Yet another place where love is described so eloquently.

Source: Author kmarisa

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