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Much Ado About Nothing
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25 Questions

1. What Do We Learn About Don John?

2. Whenever A Bastard Half-brother Appears In A Shakespearean Play - He Usually Is A Resentful - Angry Villian. Explain How The Law Of Primogeniture In The 16th Century Might Have Been A Cause Of The Resentment.

3. Another Example Of A Double Entendre Is When Beatrice Says Her Nose Is Stuffed. What Is Margaret's Play On The Word "Stuffed'?

4. How Would You Characterize The Exchange Of Witty Insults Between Margaret And Benedick?

5. To What Does Benedick Compare Claudio? What Is Being Suggested About Claudio?

6. How Does Beatrice Insult Benedick? A Little Later - How Does The Reader Know That Benedick Is Upset?

7. How Does This Masking Of Hero - And Ultimate Unmasking Of Hero - Fit In With The Play's Major Theme?

8. How Would You Describe Beatrice?

9. How Had Conrade Wounded Dogberry - And What Is The Response?

10. How Does Don John - Who Is Talking With Conrade - One Of His Followers - Explain His Own Depression?

11. One Theme Of The Play Is "Appearance Vs. Reality" Or "Things Are Not As They Seem." What Action Is To Take Place That Night Which Will Not Be As It Seems?

12. Why Does Borachio So Readily Confess His Villainy?

13. What Does The Friar Represent?

14. What Does Don John Mean When He Says To Don Pedro And Claudio That Hero Is - "Leonato's Hero - Your Hero - Every Man's Hero?" How Does He Propose To Prove This?

15. What Misinformation Does Antonio Give Leonato?

16. What Is Beatrice's Greatest Concern When She Meets Benedick? What Is Benedick's Respone?

17. Why Does Don Pedro Say He Chose Benedick To Accompany Him To Arragon After Claudio's Wedding? What Is Benedick's Reaction?

18. What Does Dogberry Tell Them To Do If They Have Trouble?

19. What Resolution Awaits Beatrice And Benedick?

20. When Leonato Turns To Don Pedro For Help - What Is The Prince's Repsonse?

21. What Is The Job Of The Watch?

22. Explain Benedick's Remarks "...Shall Quips And Sentences - And These Paper Bullets Of The Brain - Awe A Man From The Career Of His Humor?"

23. How Does Dogberry's Limited Knowledge Of Language Add To The Humor In This Scene?

24. How Do Don Pedro And Claudio First React To Benedick's Challenge?

25. What Is The Friar's Opinion - And What Is His Suggestion?