Question 1

Mark Antony’s funeral oration

Accepted Answer

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.

Question 2

Hamlets famous soliloquy

Accepted Answer

To die, to sleep,
to sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there’s the rub
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come.

Question 3

The Saint Crispin’s Day speech is delivered by Henry V in act IV, scene 3.

Accepted Answer

gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

Question 4

The “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” soliloquy is delivered by Macbeth in act V, scene 5,

Accepted Answer

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

Question 5

“Now is the winter of our discontent” is a monologue delivered by the future Richard III (then the Duke of Gloucester) to open act I, scene 1 of his namesake play.

Accepted Answer

since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain

Question 6

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks” is a monologue delivered by King Lear in act III, scene 2.

Accepted Answer

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!
You cataracts and hurricanes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!

Question 7

The “Balcony Scene” in act II, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet contains two of the best-known speeches in the entire play.

Accepted Answer

“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” and“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”

Question 8

“Our revels now are ended” is a short speech delivered by Prospero in act IV, scene 1 of The Tempest.

Accepted Answer

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air.

Question 9

The quintessential antihero, Richard describes how his hunchbacked appearance has made him “determined to prove a villain” in a monologue that begins “now is the winter of our discontent / made glorious summer by this son of York.”

Accepted Answer

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, from Richard III:

Question 10

Though Macbeth is the play’s protagonist, his pursuit of the Scottish throne is largely driven by his wife’s ambition. Threatens her husbands masculinity.

Accepted Answer

Lady Macbeth, from Macbeth:

Question 11

Iago is the “ancient,” or standard-bearer, of the general Othello, and is passed over for a promotion to lieutenant in favor of the less-experienced Michael Cassio. In addition, Iago believes that his wife, Emilia, may have cheated on him with Othello.

Accepted Answer

Iago, from The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice:

Question 12

a hot-headed member of the Capulet family who is the beloved cousin of Juliet. During the public brawl that begins the play, Tybalt provokes the peaceful Benvolio. At a ball given by the Capulets, Tybalt recognizes the disguised Romeo

Accepted Answer

Tybalt, from Romeo and Juliet:

Question 13

Before the start of the play, Claudius became the ruler of Denmark by pouring poison into the ear of his sleeping brother, King Hamlet. Claudius then married Gertrude, King Hamlet’s widow.

Accepted Answer

King Claudius, from The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Question 14

the son of the Algerian witch Sycorax, who once ruled the island where Caliban was born. After Sycorax died the island fell under the control of the magician Prospero, an exiled duke of Milan.

Accepted Answer

Caliban, from The Tempest:

Question 15

Before the opening of the play, Frederick overthrew his brother, Duke Senior, and seized control of the court. There, Frederick harbors his brother’s daughter Rosalind as a companion to his own daughter, Celia.

Accepted Answer

Duke Frederick, from As You Like It

Question 16

Proteus begins the play as an innocent lover, but develops into the primary antagonist after he visits his friend Valentine in Milan, and becomes infatuated with Valentine’s love, Silvia.

Accepted Answer

Proteus, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona:

Question 17

entrusted with the rule of Vienna by Duke Vicentio, who pretends to leave the city but actually remains present, disguised as “Friar Lodowick.” Angelo enforces antiquated laws against fornication, resulting in Claudio’s arrest and imminent execution

Accepted Answer

Angelo, from Measure for Measure:

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