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LIMBI SI LITERATURI STRAINE Limba personajelor Shakespeariene optional

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1) Which of the following writers was not a detractor of Shakespeare’s genius?

1 Voltaire
2 Coleridge
3 Shaw
4 Tolstoy

2) Which of the following commentators of Shakespeare’s art did not underline his characters’
individualization through speech?

1 Margaret Cavendish
2 Alexander Pope
3 T.S. Eliot
4 M.C. Bradbrook

3) According to Northrop Frye, drama is a mimesis of

1 dialogue
2 life
3 reality
4 action on stage

4) Muriel Bradbrook compared Shakespeare to… as regards characterization through idiom.

1 Chaucer
2 Sir Philip Sidney
3 Christopher Marlowe
4 Ovid

5) Linguistic mimicry in Shakespeare’s plays is a term coined by

1 George Volceanov
2 Harold Bloom
3 Leon Levitchi
4 Muriel Bradbrook

6) Samuel Johnson wrote about Shakespeare in

1 the seventeenth century

2 the eighteenth century
3 nineteenth century
4 twentieth century

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 7) Harold Bloom has defined Shakespeare’s characters as

1 self-mimickers
2 self-overhearers
3 self-imitators
4 self-inventors

8) The clown Feste in Twelfth Night says he is a … of words.

1 corrupter
2 speaker
3 mimicker
4 loser

9) The girl using disguise (cross-dressing) and speaking “like a saucy lackey” in As You Like It is

1 Viola
2 Audrey
3 Phebe
4 Rosalind

10) In Edward III, King Edward imitates

1 the Countess of Salisbury, who imitates King David of Scotland and herself
2 the Countess of Salisbury
3 King David of Scotland
4 King David and the Countess of Salisbury

11) The child in Cymbeline with a taste for acting is

1 Belarius
2 Guiderius
3 Arviragus
4 Cloten

12) Linguistic mimicry in Shakespeare’s plays is

1 a gratuitous waste of time

2 an apparently gratuitous waste of time
3 a necessary action
4 a dramatic convention

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13) Patroclus mimics Agamemnon and his loyal retainers in

1 Much Ado about Nothing

2 All’s Well That Ends Well
3 Coriolanus
4 Troilus and Cressida

14) In Achilles and Patroclus, Shakespeare parodies the friendship of

1 the Earl of Essex and the Earl of Southampton

2 Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton
3 Shakespeare and the Earl of Essex
4 Shakespeare and Ben Jonson

15) Patroclus’ mimicking of Agamemnon is a covert

1 praise of the English monarchy

2 attack on central authority
3 allegory of the human condition
4 eulogy of the warriors

16) Countenance, gesture, body language, and… equally contribute to the act of mimicking.

1 intonation
2 laughter
3 mood
4 feeling

17) “Methinks you’re better spoken” is a quotation from

1 As You Like It
2 Hamlet
3 King Lear
4 Henry V

18) The main “bricks” of linguistic mimicry are

1 linguistic repetitions, antonyms and puns

2 linguistic repetitions, countenance and intonation
3 antonyms, puns and body language
4 puns, gesture and body language

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19) The word for word repetition means

1 the resumption of form with the change of content

2 the resumption of both form and content
3 the resumption of content with the change of form
4 the resumption of the same syntactic pattern

20) Sticomythia means

1 cross-dressing
2 monologue
3 a play within a play
4 a rapid exchange of one-line cues

21) Cacozelia is

1 a type of repetition
2 affected diction
3 a combination of puns and antonyms
4 a type of cacophony

22) Chiasmus is a figure that combines

1 repetition and inversion

2 repetition and enumeration
3 repetition and antonyms
4 repetition and metaphor

23) Sermo sublimis is the term designating

1 the religious sermons held in churches

2 the sublime language of poetry
3 the high style of the aristocracy and the educated
4 the style of Shakespeare’s disguised heroines

24) Shakespeare’s characters invent a non-existing language in

1 King Lear
2 Hamlet
3 Henry V
4 All’s Well That Ends Well

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25) The same comic device (inventing a foreign language) will be used by

1 Moliere
2 Caragiale
3 Voltaire
4 John Webster

26) Rosalind and Edgar imitate their

1 social betters
2 social equals
3 social inferiors
4 their best friends

27) The clown in All’s Well That Ends Well imitates the language of

1 the Countess of Rosillion

2 his social betters
3 social equals
4 social inferiors

28) Touchstone in As You Like It is the best example of a man who can imitate

1 sermo sublimis
2 sermo humilis
3 sermo sublimis and sermo humilis simultaneously
4 a clown

29) Common-code mimicry is extremely important

1 in a clown’s jokes
2 in a disguised heroine’s acting
3 in the presentation of supernatural phenomena
4 in the feudal rites and ceremonies of the history plays

30) Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew is disguised as

1 a master of music
2 a master of philosophy
3 a servant
4 as an old woman

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31) Feste’s role in Twelfth Night was specially written for the famous actor

1 Richard Tarlton
2 Will Kemp
3 Robert Armin
4 William Shakespeare himself

32) The Duke of Vienna impersonates a monk in Shakespeare’s dark comedy

1 Measure for Measure

2 All’s Well That Ends Well
3 Much Ado About Nothing
4 King John

33) According to John Sutherland, Edgar in King Lear (IV.6) impersonates

1 two people
2 three people
3 four people
4 five people

34) Edgar in King Lear (IV.6) manages to kill Oswald while pretending he is

1 a yokel
2 a clown
3 a madman
4 a Frenchman

35) Bottom, Quince, Snout, and other mechanicals imitate the jargon of professional actors in

1 The Taming of the Shrew

2 Measure for Measure
3 The Tempest
4 A Midsummer Night’s Dream

36) For Otto Jespersen, imitation is

1 a matter of scorn
2 picking up silly fashions
3 echoing idiotic phrases
4 a precondition of linguistic life

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37) Olivia in Tewlfth Night falls in love with a young “page” named

1 Cesario
2 Viola
3 Sebastian
4 Malvolio

38) Mimicry in absentia occurs in the absence of

1 the mimicked person

2 of the mimicking person
3 of the mimicked person and of the mimicker
4 of the spectators

39) In 2 Henry IV, Falstaff, the fat knight, imitates the three styles of

1 Greek oratory
2 Roman oratory
3 sermo sublimis
4 sermo humilis

40) Mimicry in absentia is made possible by the dramatic convention of

1 the monologue or soliloquy

2 the aside
3 the play within the play
4 cross-dressing

41) Proteus, Julia’s former lover, reduces her, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, to the status of

1 a monkey
2 an ape
3 a boy
4 a whore

42) Mimicry in pseudo-praesentia is made possible by

1 the aside
2 el gracioso
3 les mots justes
4 Shakespeare’s knowledge of Latin

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43) In the case of mimicry in pseudo-praesentia

1 the mimicker is not aware of the mimicked person’s presence on stage

2 the mimicked person is aware that he is being mimicked
3 the mimicked person is not aware about being mimicked
4 the mimicker is aware of the mimicked person’s presence on stage

44) The most concentrated instance of mimicry in pseudo-praesentia is achieved by Shakespeare

in The Two Gentlemen of Verona with the participation of

1 Eglamour, Silvia, Proteus, and Thurio

2 the Duke of Milan, Thurio, Proteus, and Julia
3 Valentine, Silvia, Proteus, and Julia
4 Proteus, Julia, Eglamour, and Thurio

45) Shakespeare lavishly uses the asides in his plays

1 to share as much as information with the audience as possible

2 to keep the audience in the dark
3 just for comic purposes
4 just to underline the dramatic tension of certain scenes

46) Shakespeare’s genius, consists, according to Jonathan Bate, in

1 his originality
2 the weakness of his invented plots
3 his unique use of dramatic irony
4 his memorable characters

47) Persuasive mimicry implies the presence of

1 intellective modality
2 emotive modality
3 volitive modality
4 the use of antonyms

48) Linguistic contamination suggests that imitation occurs

1 consciously
2 unconsciously
3 deliberately
4 stupidly

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49) Rene Berger coined the notion of

1 communication through contamination

2 communication through persuasion
3 communication through imitation
d. communication through mimicry

50) The turning point in Othello is when

1 Othello kills Desdemona

2 Othello’s lofty speech is supplanted by Iago’s dirty speech
3 Iago gets contaminated by Othello’s vocabulary
4 Othello refuses to speak like Iago

51) In the last two acts of Othello, the Moor thinks of Desdemona

1 as a devil and damned soul

2 as a courtesan and whore
3 as the kindest wife on earth
4 as an Egyptian witch

52) In The Merchant of Venice, the ironic mimicry of Jessica and Lorenzo

1 ends up in disaster
2 ends with a punch line
3 ends with a kiss
4 ends with a fight

53) Jessica and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice refer to heroines from

1 Italian novellas
2 Greek mythology
3 Latin mythology
4 Ovid’s poems

54) In the comic mimicking dialogue between Jessica and Lorenzo

1 the man outsmarts the woman

2 the woman outsmarts the man
3 both partners are equally comic
4 both partners are equally stupid

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55) In Shakespeare’s plays

1 the servants are allowed to mock-mimic their masters

2 the servants are never allowed to mock-mimic their masters
3 the servants get contaminated by their masters’ speech
4 the servants keep a low profile

56) Quoting someone else’s words is a

1 a lack of originality
2 an emotive process
3 an intellectual process
4 an insult

57) In Richard II the King’s murder is preceded by

1 Mowbray’s quotation of the Lord Marshal’s words

2 Bolingbroke’s quotation of Richard’s words
3 Bolingbroke’s quotation of the Lord Marshal’s words
4 Exton’s quotation of Bolingbroke’s words

58) The “dead shepherd” referred to in As You Like It is

1 Christopher Marlowe
2 Robert Greene
3 George Chapman
4 Ben Jonson

59) As You Like It may have been influenced by

1 Marlowe’s Locrine
2 Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
3 Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois
4 Jonson’s Volpone

60) Queen Elinor in King John is

1 a weak woman
2 a strong woman
3 a usurped monarch
4 a fearful murderess

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61) Self-mimicry is a notion that can be best explained in terms

1 self-memory
2 self-disguise
3 self-communication
4 self-pity

62) In the process of self-mimicry

1 the addresser and the reference overlap

2 the addresser and the addressee overlap
3 the addresser, the addressee, and the reference overlap
4 none of the aforementioned terms overlap

63) Self-mimicry is most conspicuous when

1 the character is off-stage

2 the character is disguised
3 the character speaks in monologues
4 the character keeps quiet

64) As a theatrical device, self-mimicry requires the participation of an extra

1 addresser
2 addressee
3 reference
4 self-mimicker

65) Among the best examples of characters practicing self-mimicry, we can mention

1 Desdemona and Ophelia

2 Ophelia and Julia
3 Julia and Rosalind
4 Rosalind and Juliet

66) Macbeth’s opening line in the Scottish tragedy closely echoes the ominous words of

1 King Duncan
2 the three witches
3 Macduff
4 Banquo

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67) In Othello and Macbeth, linguistic contamination leads to

1 murder and self-destruction

2 victory over the evil
3 self-mimicry
4 self-contamination

68) Redundancy means

1 everybody mimics everybody

2 maximum information in very few words
3 words that convey no new information
4 words that convey only new information

69) The phatic function of language is stressed in the linguistic behaviour of

1 Parolles in All’s Well That Ends Well

2 Viola in Twelfth Night
3 Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
4 Macbeth in Macbeth

70) The name of Parolles suggests

1 that he is a man of honour

2 his verbosity
3 he is a great orator
4 one can rely on his words

71) Parolles’ interference in other people’s dialogues is

1 the proof of his wisdom

2 meaningless parroting
3 a warrior’s bold acting
4 an example of great rhetoric

72) The battles of wits or sexes in The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado… take the form of

1 mutual mimicry
2 self-mimicry
3 redundancy
4 economy

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73) The ritualistic use of mimicry, in which messengers are the bearers of off-stage characters,
is specific of

1 tragedies
2 comedies
3 history plays
4 romances

74) A famous scene of ‘mass mimicry’, with several rounds of multiple mimicry occurs in As You
Like It, in a scene elicited by

1 Phebe
2 Rosalind disguised as Ganymede
3 Orlando
4 Silvius

75) In the ‘mass mimicry scene’ in As You Like It several characters declare their love for
someone; in the declarations below there is a false statement. Which one is it?

1 Silvius loves Phebe

2 Phebe loves Ganymede
3 Orlando loves Rosalind
4 Rosalind loves Ganymede

76) A post-modern version of stichomythia is the use of… in the theatre of the absurd.

1 short cues
2 long cues
3 monologues
4 battle of sexes

77) The post-modern dramatist who succeeded in endowing his characters with the sparkling wit
of Shakespeare’s characters is

1 Harold Pinter
2 Samuel Beckett
3 Tom Stoppard
4 Oscar Wilde

78) The concept of the potential was theorized by

1 Theseus
2 Aristotle
3 Plato
4 Palamon

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79) The king who ‘shall imitate the action of a tiger’ is

1 Richard III
2 Edward III
3 Henry IV
4 Henry V

80) The imitation of other people’s speech, behaviour, or fashion is criticized by Shakespeare in

1 Twelfth Night and Henry V

2 Henry V and Richard II
3 Richard II and Julius Caesar
4 Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night

81) A character that definitely refuses to imitate other people’s fashion is… in The Two Noble
Kinsmen.

1 Palamon
2 Arcite
3 Theseus
4 Creon

82) Viola in Twelfth Night decides to imitate

1 her lost brother Sebastian

2 her master Duke Orsino
3 Countess Olivia
4 Feste the fool

83) In Twelfth Night Sir Andrew Aguecheek takes down notes as he is impressed by

1 Feste’s songs
2 Viola’s vocabulary
3 Sir Toby’s jokes
4 Fabian’s jokes

84) Similarly, Justice Shallow is impressed by the way… speaks.

1 Bardolph
2 Falstaff
3 Prince Hal
4 Mistress Quickly

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85) Falstaff has been labelled by critics in several ways. Which of the following answers is
wrong?

1 diabolus in loco parentis

2 the Lord of Misrule
3 the Vice
4 the Wisest Fool in the Western Hemisphere

86) Falstaff always

1 outwits Prince Hal

2 is outshone by Prince Hal
3 plots against Prince Hal
4 plans to kill Prince Hal

87) Shakespeare seems to

1 identify himself with the character of Henry V

2 detach himself from Prince Hal
3 have a poor opinion about Henry V
4 satirize King Henry V

88) Prince Hal has a

1 Protean personality
2 a vicious personality
3 a generous nature
4 an angelic character

89) Prince Hal…

1 lives a solitary life in his London palace

2 lives a double life between palace and the London underground
3 spends most of his time in military campaigns
4 spends all of his time in a London pub

90) Hal / Harry is a keen… of human nature.

1 destroyer
2 neglecter
3 instigator
4 observer

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91) Hal’s experiments in predictable human behaviour include the tricks played on

1 the King and Falstaff

2 Falstaff and Francis
3 Francis and Poins
4 Poins and Mistress Quickly

92) In his impersonation of Henry IV, Falstaff is careful in suiting his words and action to the
occasion, thus observing the rule of

1 decorum
2 honour
3 politics
4 comedy

93) Hal… has the initiative in his dialogues with his ‘mentor’ Falstaff.

1 almost never
2 never
3 more often than not
4 always

94) Much of Hal’s acting talent is used for

1 gratuitous fun
2 subversive purposes
3 making the audience laugh
4 creating a tragic atmosphere

95) Falstaff’s rejection by Hal can be best explained in terms of

1 Hal’s hypocrisy
2 Hal’s double status of public and private person
3 Hal’s loyalty to his old friend
4 Falstaff’s desire to leave the court

96) The plotters against the young king in Henry V

1 underestimate Harry
2 overestimate Harry
3 kill Harry
4 ambush Harry

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 97) The Dauphin, unlike the Constable of France perceives Harry as a

1 great soldier
2 vain humorous youth
3 a nice fellow
4 a silly drunkard

98) In Henry V the royal actor

1 forgives the three traitors who plot against him

2 sentences the traitors to lifetime prison
3 sentences the traitors to death
4 sends them to the French king in exchange for his bride

99) Henry V calls himself “the mirror of all… kings”

1 actor
2 warrior
3 foolish
4 Christian

100) To the Princess of France, Harry addresses the famous words: “I speak to thee like a plain…”

1 soldier
2 citizen
3 man
4 lover

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