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Who does NOT accuse Hero at the altar?
Much Ado About Nothing - Understanding the Text
See how well you understand the text in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare by playing this enjoyable GCSE English Literature quiz. Much Ado About Nothing was written over four hundred years ago. The form of English in which it is written is known as “Early Modern”, which makes it sound as though it ought to be easy. You will have noticed, of course, that this is not the case. Sometimes the spelling is rather different, sometimes the words are unfamiliar, and very often the jokes are not easily understood unless they are first explained. It is worth persevering, however. Much Ado About Nothing is full of delightfully clever play with words, especially between Beatrice and Benedick. Reading slowly, reading sections more than once and reading aloud will certainly help with comprehension.
1.
How do Don John and Borachio conspire to deceive Don Pedro and Claudio?
They persuade Hero to confess to Claudio that she does not love him
They bring Don Pedro and Claudio a letter which they falsely claim has been written by Hero
They set up an elaborate act of deception in which another woman pretends to be Hero engaged in an act of unfaithfulness
They demonstrate to Don Pedro and Claudio that Hero is truly in love with another man
Hero's servant Margaret plays the role of Hero. The two men spying through the bedroom window believe they have witnessed Hero being unfaithful to Claudio the night before the wedding is due to take place
2.
Who does NOT accuse Hero at the altar?
Leonato
Claudio
The Friar
Don Pedro
Hero, a very young woman, is faced at the altar with accusations by several older and more powerful men: Don Pedro, Claudio and her own father. Even the shameless Don John, full aware of her innocence, blames her
3.
How are Beatrice and Hero related?
They are cousins
They are sisters
They are merely friends
They are new acquaintances
Beatrice is an orphan, a status which gives her some independence in contrast to Hero
4.
Which of the following is NOT correct?
Don John hopes to disrupt the friendship between Don Pedro and Claudio
Don John mistakes Claudio for Benedick when he asks him to dissuade Don Pedro from loving Hero
Don John leads Claudio to believe that Don Pedro has betrayed him
Don John leads Claudio to believe that Hero has betrayed him
Don Pedro is doubly duplicitous when he addresses Claudio as Benedick in order to give himself a semblance of honesty and he plants the first seed of doubt in the young man's mind by implying that Don Pedro is wooing Hero for himself
5.
After Claudio decides that he is in love with Hero, how does Don Pedro propose to help him?
He will ask Beatrice to mention the idea of marriage to Hero
He will disguise himself as Claudio in order to woo Hero
He will disguise himself as Claudio in order to ask Leonato for permission to marry his daughter
He will create an opportunity for Claudio and Hero to be alone together
Don Pedro seems to like being a matchmaker, a role he later plays with Benedick and Beatrice
6.
How do Don Pedro, Claudio and Leonato persuade Benedick that Beatrice loves him?
They bring Benedick a forged love letter
They encourage Beatrice to declare her love as part of a dare
They trick Beatrice into declaring her love when she believes no one else to be listening
They purposefully allow Benedick to overhear them discussing Beatrice's love for him
Rather convincingly, the men discuss Beatrice's usual crossness as a defence against Benedick's own habit of mockery
7.
What does the audience learn from Beatrice and Benedick's first conversation in Act One, Scene One?
Both characters are quick with language
Beatrice and Benedick enjoy insulting one another
The two characters have a shared past
All of the above
The first conversation between these two characters ends with Beatrice remarking that Benedick has not changed: "You always end with a jade's trick. I know you of old"
8.
Why do Leonato, Beatrice and Benedick pretend that Hero is dead?
To allow time for the gossip about her to die down
To allow time to discover the truth
To prompt Claudio to feel sorrowful over his behaviour
All of the above
The pretend death is proposed by the Friar. When Claudio later marries Hero, he at first believes that he marries a cousin of hers in order to make amends for causing Hero's death with the false accusations
9.
How is Don John's deception discovered?
Borachio and Conrad are arrested by the watchman
Don John confesses his plot just before the wedding is due to take place
Beatrice and Benedick discover the truth from Borachio
Leonato insists that there must be some mistake and that his daughter is innocent
The watchman catches Borachio and Conrad after the deception has taken place, but the truth does not come out in time to prevent Hero from being disgraced at the altar
10.
Don Pedro, Claudio and Benedick have come to Messina from where?
Rome
Greece
Hunting
War
The messenger who brings news of their arrival reports that the battles have been a success
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