Twelfth Night Quiz and Answer Key Bundle
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. (Alternatively, self-grading Google Drive quizzes are available.) 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 Shakespeare’s works:
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. (Alternatively, self-grading Google Drive quizzes are available.) 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 Shakespeare’s works:
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. (Alternatively, self-grading Google Drive quizzes are available.) 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 Shakespeare’s works: