Much Ado About Nothing Final Test: Whole-Play Quiz

Much Ado About Nothing Whole Play questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. Where is Much Ado About Nothing set?
   Verona, in northern Italy · Athens, in Greece · Messina, in Sicily · Venice, on its lagoon
2. The title can be heard as 'much ado about noting'. Why does that pun fit?
   Musical notes fill every scene · Overhearing and observing drive the plot · Letters and notes are forged throughout · Characters keep written diaries
3. Who is Don John?
   Don Pedro's resentful illegitimate brother · Leonato's brother and Hero's uncle · The leader of the town watch · Claudio's father, a Florentine lord
4. How do Beatrice and Benedick differ from Hero and Claudio as lovers?
   They marry first and quarrel afterwards · They never speak to one another at all · They fall in love at first sight · They spar in wit before admitting love
5. What does Hero's public shaming suggest about women's position in the play?
   Women are free to choose their own husbands · Women control the household and its money · A woman's worth depends on her reputation · Women are judged only by their wit
6. Who is disguised as Hero at the window?
   Ursula, Hero's attendant · Margaret, her gentlewoman · Beatrice, as a jest · Borachio in a dress
7. What irony surrounds Dogberry and the Watch?
   The foolish watchmen uncover what nobles miss · They plot against Leonato in secret · They are the cleverest men in Messina · They are hired by Don John to spy
8. How do the two deceptions in the play mirror each other?
   Both are planned by Don John and Borachio · Both take place during the masked ball · Both are discovered in the end by Beatrice · Staged scenes unite one couple and part another
9. How does the play end?
   With Don John's execution · With Claudio leaving Messina alone · With a double wedding and a dance · With Benedick returning to war
10. Why does Beatrice say 'O God, that I were a man!' after the wedding?
    She wishes to fight in Don Pedro's war · As a woman she cannot avenge her cousin · She envies Benedick's freedom to travel · She wants to marry Hero herself

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