Twelfth Night Quiz and Answer Key Bundle

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Promote homework accountability and evaluate general reading comprehension with this bundle of quizzes covering each Act of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Information on each assessment follows.

Act 1. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Olivia’s rejection of Orsino’s romantic advances
• The impact of music on Orsino
• Olivia’s 7-year mourning period and Orsino’s reaction to it
• Viola’s shipwreck
• The unknown fate of Sebastian
• Characterization of Sir Toby Belch
• Characterization of Sir Andrew Aguecheek
• Cesario’s assigned task
• Tension between Maria and Feste
• Feste’s implication (criticism of Olivia’s attitude)
• Malvolio’s arrogance
• Olivia’s apparent romantic interest in Cesario
• Olivia’s plan to reacquaint with Cesario

Act 2. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Sebastian’s return to Orsino’s court
• Characterization of Sebastian
• Malvolio’s frustrated behavior
• Olivia’s love for Cesario
• Toby and Andrew’s drunken behavior
• Malvolio’s reaction to Toby and Andrew’s conduct
• Maria’s plot to get back at Malvolio
• Characterization of the relationship between Toby and Andrew
• Orsino’s curiosity about Cesario’s love life
• Orsino’s perspective on what makes the perfect relationship
• Orsino’s contradictory comments
• Malvolio’s “private” dialogue
• Malvolio’s embarrassing behaviors

Act 3. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Cesario’s encountering of Feste
• Cesario’s reaction to Olivia’s declarations of love
• Olivia’s misinterpretation of Cesario’s motives
• Olivia’s breaking of societal expectations in the times of Elizabethan England.
• Toby and Fabian’s underhanded deeds
• Andrew’s challenge
• Sebastian and Antonio’s arrival in Illyria
• Antonio’s personal history
• Toby’s intentions
• Olivia’s newest gift to Cesario
• Antonio’s interruption of the duel
• A case of mistaken identity and its consequences

Act 4. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Feste’s message from Olivia
• Character motivations (why Toby intervenes in a fight)
• Olivia’s sudden appearance
• “If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!” (context)
• Maria’s newest deceptive plot against Malvolio
• Malvolio’s treatment and his attempts to improve his situation
• Dynamic character (a change within Toby)
• “Blame not this haste of mine…” (context)
• Dynamic character (a change within Malvolio)

Act 5. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:

• Feste’s delivery of a letter
• The use of figurative language and its purpose: “Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, / Like to the Egyptian thief, at point of death, / Kill what I love?”
• The context of Viola’s claim that she would die “a thousand deaths”
• Olivia’s rationalization of Cesario’s apparently inconsistent behavior
• Andrew and Toby’s injuries
• The context of Toby’s remarks: “An asshead and a coxcomb and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!”
• Andrew’s frustration with Viola
• Olivia’s feelings toward Malvolio
• A lie told by Fabian
• Maria’s marriage
• The tone of the closing song

Materials are available for teaching a variety of texts such as:

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Feed by M.T. Anderson
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare