• 1. 
    In Henry VI, Part 2, which wild animal does the Duke of York say “in rage forgets / Agèd contusions and all brush of time”?

  • lion
  • tiger
  • eagle
  • hawk
  • 2. 
    In The Merchant of Venice, Lorenzo—with whom Shylock’s daughter, Jessica, has eloped—teasingly says that she, like which animal, “slander[ed] her love, and he forgave it her”?

  • swallow
  • shrew
  • hornet
  • nightingale
  • 3. 
    In Troilus and Cressida, the Greek commander Ulysses says that which animal “hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure”?

  • wooly mammoth
  • lynx
  • elephant
  • grizzly bear
  • 4. 
    In The Taming of the Shrew, the servant Biondello says, “I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff” which animal?

  • goose
  • chicken
  • rabbit
  • duck
  • 5. 
    In The Tempest, after Iris summons another goddess, Ceres, “Here on this grass-plot, in this very place, / To come and sport,” which animals serving the goddess Juno “fly amain”?

  • peacocks
  • swans
  • tigers
  • hawks
  • 6. 
    In Henry V, Henry says, “But when the blast of war blows in our ears, / Then imitate the action of” which animal?

  • tiger
  • lynx
  • jaguar
  • leopard
  • 7. 
    In Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Hamlet says, “Is not parchment made of” the skins of which animal?

  • sheep
  • oxen
  • horse
  • cow
  • 8. 
    In Henry IV, Part 1, Henry V says, “Here is a dear, a true industrious friend, / Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from” which animal?

  • horse
  • camel
  • mule
  • donkey
  • 9. 
    In Antony and Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen says, “Help me, my women! O, he’s more mad / Than Telamon for his shield.” Which animal of Thessaly does she then say “was never so emboss’d”?

  • lion
  • hound
  • wolf
  • boar
  • 10. 
    In Henry IV, Part 2, Henry IV predicts what will become of his kingdom once he is gone, saying, “O, thou wilt be a wilderness again, / Peopled with” which animals?

  • rabbits
  • wolves
  • foxes
  • deer
  • 11. 
    In Richard II, King Richard says, “Rage must be withstood. / Give me his gage. Lions make” which wild animals “tame”?

  • tigers
  • pumas
  • leopards
  • panthers
  • 12. 
    In The Merchant of Venice, the Prince of Arragon says, “Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, / Which pries not to th’ interior, but like” which bird “Builds in the weather on the outward wall”?

  • barn owl
  • martlet
  • robin
  • gull
  • 13. 
    In Henry V, the French lord Rambures says, “That island of England breeds very valiant creatures” and their dogs of what type “are of unmatchable courage”?

  • spaniels
  • greyhounds
  • hounds
  • mastiffs
  • 14. 
    In The Taming of the Shrew, Gremio, a wealthy old gentleman competing for the hand of another rich man’s daughter, boasts to that man, “Then at my farm / I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail, / Six score” of which “fat” farm animal “standing in my stalls”?

  • chickens
  • horses
  • oxen
  • sheep
  • 15. 
    In Cymbeline, the banished prince Arviragus says, “We have seen nothing. We are beastly: subtle as” which animal is “for prey”?

  • civet
  • fox
  • eagle
  • hawk
  • 16. 
    In King Lear, the Earl of Gloucester's disinherited but loyal son Edgar describes his half-brother, Edmund, as a traitor spotted like which animal?

  • dog
  • toad
  • leopard
  • cat
  • 17. 
    In Macbeth, the title character calls on the night to “cancel and tear to pieces that great bond / Which keeps me pale! Light thickens, and” which bird “makes wing to th’ rooky wood”?

  • crow
  • tawny owl
  • raven
  • screech owl
  • 18. 
    In Richard II, King Richard says, “Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense, / But let” which creatures “that suck up thy venom, / And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way”?

  • leeches
  • vermin
  • spiders
  • serpents
  • 19. 
    In King Lear, the title character says, “To wage against the enmity o’ th’ air, / To be a comrade with the wolf and” which bird?

  • hawk
  • raven
  • falcon
  • owl
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