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1. Why is Shakespeare's play titled Julius Caesar, even though he is dead by Act III and plays a relatively small role?
2. What is the meaning of this saying, "The cat will mew and dog will have his day"?
3. Why is there an authorship problem with Shakespeare?
4. What is it called when something is out of place in time, like a jet stream in a movie about ancient Rome?
5. What did Shakespeare want to say about his beloved in Sonnet 18?
6. Who was the last person to see Juliet alive?
7. Is there a reference to venereal disease in Romeo and Juliet?
8. What is the exposition in Othello?
9. Who is the character Susan in Romeo and Juliet?
10. What is an apostrophe in Macbeth?
11. What are the renaissance features/characteristics in Hamlet?
12. What is the exact quote in Hamlet about something being wrong in Denmark? Something smells? Something is amiss?
13. What was the form of English that Shakespeare used?
14. At the beginning of Act V, Scene 2 of Much Ado About Nothing, does Shakespeare insinuate that anything is going on between Margaret and Benedick?
15. What is a harbinger? (From Shakespeare's Macbeth)
16. What does the word runagate mean? (From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
17. What is the word, imprimis? (From Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew)
18. What or who is a scullion? (From Shakespeare's Hamlet)
19. What is a replication? (From Shakespeare's Hamlet)
20. What does the word replete mean? (From Shakespeare's Henry V)
21. What are orisons? (From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
22. What does it mean to be timorous? (From Shakespeare's Othello)
23. What does incarnadine mean? (From Shakespeare's Macbeth)
24. What does it mean to be puissant? (From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar)
25. What is behoveful? (From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
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