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The Bardolater Test

Except the specified items, all items have ONLY ONE correct answer. The test MUST be completed within 5 minutes.90 points or above can claim the bonus.Good luck.

Q1:What characteristic relating to Shakespeare and his writings is NOT mentioned in thebook ?

Cryptic

Sparse

Self-consciousness

The most well-known English poet

Q2:Where was Shakespeare born?

Stratford

London

Stanford

Seinfeld

Q3:In the following, which is NOTamong the hypothetical theories explaining the lost years for Shakespeare?

Buying houses in London

Trying to be a solicitor

Travelling in Europe

Fleeing from charges

Q4:In the following descriptions as concerns the University Wits, which one does NOT hold true?

Robert Greene condemned Shakespeare's plagiarism in his last book

They tended to observe the classic structure of dramaturgy

They lended little help to Shakespeare's early career

They showed great respect to Shakespeare's works and talents, regardless of his education background

Q5:Which of the following is NOTthe reason why identifying the Shakespeares authorship is almost impossible?

Companies seldom had a complete copy of a play

Shakespeare might have borrowed some ideas from his contemporaries

The actor's parts were written out with their cues

Publishers were reluctant to print famous playwrights' works

Q6:Which of the following,according to the common literature standards, does NOT belong to the BardsFour Tragedies?

Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

Othello

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Demark

Q7:The motto of the Globe is

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action

Terminus ad quem

All the world's a stage

Imago veritatis

Q8:What source does NOT nurture Shakespeares poetics? (2 answers)

Horace

Aristotle

Socrates

Cicero

Terence

Stoics

Q9:In continental Europe, Renaissance drama exists in two types, (2 answers)

The erudite theater

The Globe

The Blackfriars

The popular theater

Children of the Chapel

Commedia dell'arte

The professional theater

Q10:twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. This excerpt is used to illustrate

A challenge to Puritans

Shakespeare stole the ideas from the University Wits

Horatian Maxim

True end of Poetry

The ideal of the Globe

Shakespeare as a cryptic person