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Quiz: Which Shakespearean Item Are You?
Assortment of theatrical props, including a deck of cards, a goblet, masks, fans, and keys.
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Quiz: Which Shakespearean Item Are You?

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Ben Lauer

Tell us a bit about yourself, and we’ll tell you which iconic object from a Shakespeare play matches your personality.

Quiz: Shakespeare trivia
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Quiz: Shakespeare trivia

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What is Shakespeare’s shortest play? Which female character has the most lines? Test your Shakespeare knowledge with this trivia quiz.

Quiz: Shakespeare's Mothers
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Quiz: Shakespeare's Mothers

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Ben Lauer

There are more moms in Shakespeare’s plays than you might think. Take our quiz and see how well you know the mothers of Shakespeare.

Quiz: Shakespeare's Macbeth? Or William Davenant's 17th-century adaptation?
Ian Peakes and Kate Eastwood Norris as the tragically ambitious Macbeths. Photo by Brittany Diliberto.
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Quiz: Shakespeare's Macbeth? Or William Davenant's 17th-century adaptation?

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Take this quiz to see if you can identify lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth or the Restoration-era version as adapted and amended by Sir William Davenant.

Quiz: Which copy of "Midsummer" are you?
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Quiz: Which copy of "Midsummer" are you?

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Ben Lauer

The Folger’s collection includes a lot of editions of Shakespeare’s plays; some copies of these editions have their own, unique stories. Which of these special copies of Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream matches your personality? Take our quiz to…

Quiz: How well do you know Shakespeare's genres?
Shakespeare First Folio
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Quiz: How well do you know Shakespeare's genres?

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Esther French

The Folger, along with many Shakespeare scholars, recognizes five categories of Shakespeare’s work: comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and poems. Take the quiz to see if you can match the right works with the right genres!

Quiz: Can you guess the Shakespeare play just from its most memorable props?
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Quiz: Can you guess the Shakespeare play just from its most memorable props?

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Esther French

How well do you know the props in Shakespeare’s plays? Take the quiz!

Quiz: The songs in Shakespeare's plays
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Quiz: The songs in Shakespeare's plays

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Shakespeare’s plays are filled with music. Using some context clues, match these songs to the plays in which they appear.

Quiz: Match the painting to the Shakespeare play
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Quiz: Match the painting to the Shakespeare play

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Esther French

Which Shakespeare play is depicted in each of these paintings from the Folger collection? Take the quiz.

Quiz: Buckets of ducats in Shakespeare's plays
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Quiz: Buckets of ducats in Shakespeare's plays

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Shakespeare characters love talking about their ducats, which were commonly used coins in Shakespeare’s day. Can you match the money quote to the play it comes from?

Quiz: Shakespeare's lovers
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Quiz: Shakespeare's lovers

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Esther French

Can you match up these Shakespearean lovers? Take the quiz and challenge your friends.

Quiz: How well do you know the endings of Shakespeare's plays?
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Quiz: How well do you know the endings of Shakespeare's plays?

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Esther French

Louis Butelli (Feste) sings the final lines in Twelfth Night, directed by Robert Richmond, Folger Theatre, 2013. Photo by Scott Suchman. Challenge thyself! Test your Shakespeare knowledge and take this quiz. You may have gotten a perfect score on our…

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