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✣ 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and several poems

✣ April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in


Warwickshire, England
✣ His father, John Shakespeare, was a glove-
maker and a High Bailiff
✣ illegally traded wool
Because his father could no longer pay
for William's tuition after his legal
scandal, William Shakespeare only
attended primary school until what age?

A. 11 C. 13
B. 12 D. 14
William
Shakespeare
attended primary
school until age
5
William was just 18 years old when he
got a 26 year old woman pregnant.
What was the name of the woman?

A. Lisa Gherardini
B. Anne Hathaway
C. Madonna
D. Elisabetta Sirani
William
Shakespeare got a
certain
pregnant.
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✣ no longer eligible to become an apprentice
✣ married in November of 1582
✣ Anne gave birth to their daughter, Susanna
✣ went on to have twins, a boy and a girl,
named Hamnet and Judith
✣ lived in London as an actor
✣ worked for an acting company
called “Lord Chamberlain's Men”
When King James I came into power, he
decided to sponsor the Lord
Chamberlain's Men. They changed the
company's name into...

A. Worcester's Men
B. King's Revels Men
C. King's Revels Children
D. The King's Men
They changed the
company's name
into

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The death of his son inspired
him to write which play?

A. Macbeth
B. Othello
C. Hamlet
D. Julius Caesar
The death of his son,
Hamnet, inspired
him to write his play

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✣ Hamnet died at just 11 years old
✣ bubonic plague
William Shakespeare is speculated
to have collaborated in the
translation of...

A. Oedipus Rex
B. Iliad
C. Odyssey
D. Bible
William Shakespeare is
speculated to have
contributed in the
English translation of

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✣ painter, engineer, architect, writer, scientist,
and inventor
✣ April 15, 1452 in a Tuscan village called
Vinci
✣ Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio and
Caterina di Meo Lippi
✣ Leonardo of Vinci
✣ Andre de Verrocchio, who ran an art
studio in the city of Florence
✣ By his mid-20's, Leonardo Da Vinci
became a master artist in
Verrocchio's studio
His talent stirred a lot of jealousy among
the art community. At 24 years old,
Da Vinci was accused of which crime?

A. having sex with a male prostitute


B. stealing oxen
C. sedition
D. willful manslaughter
Da Vinci was accused
of
, and he
was arrested for
sodomy.
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✣ burned to death
✣ no evidence or witnesses were
presented
✣ profession in weapons design
✣ came to Milan to escape being a
painter
The Duke of Milan gave him an
assignment of decorating a church called
Santa Maria delle Grazie where
he painted which work?

A. Annunciation
B. Baptism of Christ
C. Last Supper
D. Tobias and the Angel
Da Vinci painted one
of his famous works,

which took him three


years to complete.
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Da Vinci was reluctant to move back to
Florence because of his bad reputation. But
by that time, people had all forgotten him as
there was a new genius painter in town. Who
was the painter Da Vinci envied?

A. Donatello
B. Michelangelo
C. Raphael
the answer is

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Leonardo da Vinci was a man
ahead of his time. Besides art, he
was an inventor. Which of these
were his blueprints for one of his
inventions?
A. B.

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C. D.

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A. B.

C. D.

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the answer is

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“Mona Lisa,” Da Vinci's most
famous painting...
A. was painted without eyebrows
B. had never undergone restoration
C. was an unfinished masterpiece
D. all of the above
Mona Lisa was an

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