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1

In Twelfth Night
'If music be the food of love,play on
Give me excess of it,that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and die'
was spoken by

  • A. Curio
  • B. Valentine
  • C. Orsino
  • D. Antonio
  • E. Sir Andrew
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2

Maria:If you desire the spleen,and will laugh
yourself into stitches,follow me.yond gull
Malvolio is turned heathen,a very renegado;
saved by believing rightly,can never believe
such impossible passages of grossness.
He's in yellow stockings.
Sir Toby:And cross-gartered?
Maria:Most villainously;like a pendant that keeps
a school in church.i have dogged him:
like his murderer.He does obey every point
of the letter that i dropped to betray him:
he does smile his face into more lines than
is in the new map with the augmentation of
the indies:you have not seen such a thing as
'tis.I can hardly forbear hurling things at
him:if she do,he'll smile and take it for
a great favour.
(Twelfth Night)
Which of the following statements reflects best the situation revealed above

  • A. Malvolio is greatly admired by Maria nad Sir Toby
  • B. Malvolio's dress and bearing will please Lady Olivia very much
  • C. Malvolio is decieved into doing things hated by Olivia
  • D. Malvolio is a heathen and pendant
  • E. the Author of Twelfth Night pokes fun at foolishly misguided people like Malvolio here
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3

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

  • A. contempt and admiration
  • B. hatred and pity
  • C. contempt and disregard
  • D. disregard and pity
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This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid...
In the lines above, the character is

  • A. expressing his unhappiness about death
  • B. expressing his preference for a cypress coffin
  • C. lamenting over his unreciprocated love
  • D. wishing for death to come
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5

This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.
Duke:
Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should

  • A. make trouble to see Olivia
  • B. jump the fence to see Olivia
  • C. shout be seen and heard by Olivia
  • D. fortify himself against any denial to see Olivia
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