Shakespeare and Common Phrases

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English, History, Fun
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10th Grade - University
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Helen Sahi
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which play does "wild goose chase" come from?
Hint: "Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five. Was I with you there for the goose?" — Mercutio
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Othello
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which play does "green-eyed monster" come from?
Hint: "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on." — Iago
Macbeth
Hamlet
Othello
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which play do both "seen better days" and "forever and a day"?
Hint: "True is it that we have seen better days and have with holy bell been knolled to church, and sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes of drops that sacred pity hath engendered." — Duke Senior
As You Like It
Troilus and Cressida
Hamlet
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which play does, "it's Greek to me " come from?
Hint: "Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the face again: but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me." — Casca
Richard the Third
Troilus and Criselda
Julius Cesar
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which play does "be-all, end-all" come from?
Hint: "If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we’d jump the life to come." — Macbeth
Macbeth
Hamlet
King Lear
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who was Shakespeare's wife?
Sigourney Weaver
Anne Hathaway
Marilyn Monroe
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What day and month was Shakespeare born?
April 23
April 1
April 12
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