Twelfth Night practice test

1. Who is the speaker? O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame / to pay this debt of love but to a brother, / how will she love when the rich golden shaft / hath killed the flock of all affections else that live in her… Orsino

2. Who is described? O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame / to pay this debt of love but to a brother, / how will she love when the rich golden shaft / hath killed the flock of all affections else that live in her… Olivia

3. Who is the speaker? There is a fair behavior in thee, captain, / And though that nature with a beauteous wall / doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee / I will believe thou hast a mind that suits / With this thy fair and outward character. Viola

4. What is the theme? There is a fair behavior in thee, captain, / And though that nature with a beauteous wall / doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee / I will believe thou hast a mind that suits / With this thy fair and outward character. Deception/disguise

5. Who is the speaker? I For they shall yet belie thy happy years That say thou art a man. Diana’s lip is not more smooth and rubious, thy small pipe is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound, and all is semblative a woman’s part. Orsino

6. Who is described? I For they shall yet belie thy happy years That say thou art a man. Diana’s lip is not more smooth and rubious, thy small pipe is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound, and all is semblative a woman’s part. Viola

7. Who is the speaker? That instant was I turned into a hart, and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, e’er since pursue me. Orsino

8.What is the literary device? That instant was I turned into a hart, and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, e’er since pursue me.

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10. Who is speaker A? A. I will on with my speech in your praise and then show you the heart of my message. B. Come to what is important in ‘t. I forgive you the praise. A. Alas, I took great pains to study it, and ‘tis poetical. B. It is the more like to be feigned. I pray you, keep it in. Viola

11. Who is speaker B? A. I will on with my speech in your praise and then show you the heart of my message. B. Come to what is important in ‘t. I forgive you the praise. A. Alas, I took great pains to study it, and ‘tis poetical. B. It is the more like to be feigned. I pray you, keep it in. Olivia

12. Who is the speaker? What is love? Tis not hereafter. Present mirth hath present laughter. What’s to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty. Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. Youth’s a stuff will not endure. Fool

13.What is the theme? What is love? Tis not hereafter. Present mirth hath present laughter. What’s to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty. Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. Youth’s a stuff will not endure. Carpe diem (seize the day)

14. Who is the speaker? Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness / wherein the pregnant enemy does much. / How easy is it for the proper false / In women’s waxen hearts to set their forms! / Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, / For such as we are made of, such we be. Viola

15. Who is speaker A? A. If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out. B. Send for money, knight. If thou hast her not i’ th’ end, call me “Cut.” Andrew

16. Who is speaker B? A. If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out. B. Send for money, knight. If thou hast her not i’ th’ end, call me “Cut.” Toby

17. Who is “your niece” ? A. If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out. B. Send for money, knight. If thou hast her not i’ th’ end, call me “Cut.” Olivia

18. Who is the speaker? 2.4 Then let thy love be younger than thyself, / Or thy affections cannot hold the bent. / For women are as roses, whose fair flower, / Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. Orsino

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, / Or thy affections cannot hold the bent. / For women are as roses, whose fair flower, / Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. This quote means that a. women are as beautiful as flowers. b. like roses, women are only beautiful for a short time.

20. Who is the speaker? Why, thou has put him in such a dream that when the image of it leaves him he must run mad. Toby

21. Who is the person described (“him”)? Why, thou has put him in such a dream that when the image of it leaves him he must run mad. Malvolio

22. Who is the speaker? Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Olivia

23. Who is spoken to? Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Viola

24. Who is the speaker? You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is but a chevril glove to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! Fool

25. Who is being spoken to? You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is but a chevril glove to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! Viola

What is the theme? You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is but a chevril glove to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! Deception through language

26. Who is the speaker? But, oh, how vile an idol proves this god! / Thou hast, ___, done good feature shame. / In nature there’s no blemish but the mind; / None can be called deformed but the unkind. Antonio

27. Whose name fills in the blank? But, oh, how vile an idol proves this god! Thou hast, ___, done good feature shame. In nature there’s no blemish but the mind; / None can be called deformed but the unkind. Sebastian

But, oh, how vile an idol proves this god! Thou hast, ___, done good feature shame. In nature there’s no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind. This quote means a. Your good looks are blemished with deformity. b. You should not worship idols because they are blemished. c. Your good looks are deceptive, and you have shamed them.

29. Who is the speaker? Well held out, i’ faith. No, I do not know you, nor I am not sent to you by my lady to bid you come speak with her, nor your name is not _____, nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so. Fool

30. The name that fills in the blank is __ Well held out, i’ faith. No, I do not know you, nor I am not sent to you by my lady to bid you come speak with her, nor your name is not _____, nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so. Cesario

Who is the speaker? Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in it, and I would I were the first who ever dissembled in such a gown. Fool

What is the theme? Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in it, and I would I were the first who ever dissembled in such a gown. Deception, church corruption

32. Who is the speaker? He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side, but in conclusion put strange speech upon me. I know not what ‘twas but distraction. Viola

33. Who is “he” ? He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side, but in conclusion put strange speech upon me. I know not what ‘twas but distraction. Antonio

Who is the speaker? 5.1 Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, like to th’ Egyptian thief at point of death, kill what I love? Orsino

Who is “what I love” ? 5.1 Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, like to th’ Egyptian thief at point of death, kill what I love? Olivia

34. Who is the speaker? My lord, so please you, these things further thought on, To think me as well a sister as a wife, One day shall crown th’ alliance on ‘t, so please you, here at my house, and at my proper cost. Olivia

35. Who is “you” in the quote? My lord, so please you, these things further thought on, To think me as well a sister as a wife, One day shall crown th’ alliance on ‘t, so please you, here at my house, and at my proper cost. Orsino

36. True or false? The Fool says Viola is a girl from the very beginning of the play. False

37. True or false? The Fool sings for free throughout the play. False

38. True or false? Malvolio writes a letter to Olivia. True

39. True or false? The audience learns that Toby has married Maria at the end of the play. True

40. True or false? Orsino insists on seeing Viola in her female dress before he will consider marrying her. False