Pretest Seven Ages of Man

PRE-TEST

Directions: Read each item carefully. Then, choose the answer to each question/item.

1. ________________ is a well-known English American writer who wrote "The Seven Ages

of Man".

• A. William Smith

• B. Edgar Allan Poe

• C. Willie Shakespeare

• D. William Shakespeare

2. According to the "The Seven Ages of Man", the world is compared to _________.

• A. room

• B. house

• C. river

• D. stage

3. "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely ________".

• A. actors

• B. dummies

• C. players

• D. puppets

4. A/an _______________, a stage of man who is full of strange oaths and bearded like the

pard, jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel.

• A. infant

• B. lover

• C. soldier

• D. schoolboy

5. The man who is "full of wise saws" is the __________________.

• A. justice

• B. old man

• C. soldier

• D. shrinking man

6. A man who has a shrunk shank and big manly voice is the __________________.

D. schoolboy

• A. lover

• B. pantaloon

• C. soldier

• D. schoolboy

7. Why is it that in one stage of life does man experience "a world to wide/For his shrunk

shank"?

• A. The judge understands that he makes big decisions.

• B. When a man becomes older, he also shrinks in size.

• C. After a war, a hungry soldier does not fit in his uniform.

• D. A lover feels smaller because the power of love is so large.

8. The infant is described as "mewling and puking". What does this mean?

• A. fussy and unhappy

• B. laughing and smiling

• C. sleeping and content

• D. crying and spitting up

9. What are three things lost in "second childishness"?

• A. teeth, eyes, and taste

• B. breath, smell, and hearing

• C. love, happiness, and wealth

• D. hearing, strength, and appetite

10. The seven roles that a man plays corresponds to his _________________.

• A. desires in life

• B. mental age in life

• C. idea of a perfect life

• D. chronological age in life