ALTHOUGH THESE QUESTIONS ARE NOT TYPICAL OF A-LEVEL, THEY MAY HELP WITH YOUR REVISION

1. Which female refuses to marry at the beginning of the play?
2. Where does the play take place?
3. At the beginning of the play, what is Beatrice’s relationship to Benedick?
4. Who is Leonato?
5. Who is Don John’s brother?
6. What does Don John want?
7. Who carries out Don John’s plan?
8. What reason does Don John give for his sullenness?
9. Who is left standing at the altar?
10. Why is she left standing at the altar?
11. Who has an evil plot ?
12. What does Leonato’s household do to punish Claudio for shaming Hero?
13. Who is socially the most powerful character in the play?
14. To whom does Don Pedro propose marriage?
15. What makes Claudio realise that he wrongly accused Hero?
16. How do Don Pedro and Claudio make Benedick fall in love with Beatrice?
17. Have Beatrice and Benedick courted before?
18. When is the play set?
19. Why was it necessary to pretend Hero was dead?
20. When was the play first performed?

ANSWERS

1. Beatrice
2. Sicily
3. They are enemies
4. Hero’s father
5. Don Pedro
6. Destroy Claudio
7. Margaret and Borachio
8. It is just the way he is – in his nature
9. Hero
10. Claudio believes she has cheated on him
11. Don John
12. Pretend Hero is dead and challenges Claudio to a dual
13. Don Pedro
14. Beatrice
15. Borachio’s confession
16. They get him to overhear their conversation in which they say Beatrice loves him
17. Yes but Benedick left
18. 16th Century
19. Because she had lost her moral standing and dignity
20. 1599