Penguin Readers Answer Key l e v e l More Tales from Shakespeare UPPER INTERMEDIATE 5 b They fall in love at first sight. Desdemona, he is a soldier with little Answers to Book activities c Tybalt hates Romeo because he is a experience of women, he is not used to Montague. Romeo would like to be Venetian high society, Desdemona deceived 1 a comedy friends with him because he is Juliet’s her father in marrying him and preferred him, b tale cousin but fights him when he kills a black man, to younger white men. In short, 2 Open answers Mercutio. Iago makes Othello see himself and 3 Across: 1 kingdom, 4 shepherd, 6 oracle, 7 17 a He dies by taking poison. Desdemona through Iago’s eyes with Iago’s feast b She kills herself with a knife. thoughts, and he doubts Desdemona’s love Down: 1 noble, 3 misery, 4 statue, 5 heir c Romeo kills him in a fight. for him.) 4 a Leontes and Polixenes were school d He is still alive. 27–32 Open answers friends. Leontes suddenly becomes e Tybalt kills him in a fight. jealous of Polixenes, his guest, and tries f He is still alive. to kill him. He feels sorry when he Answers to Factsheet activities g Romeo kills him at Juliet’s grave. realizes the truth, and many years later h He is still alive. they become friends again through the ■ Communicative activities 18 a The friar marries Romeo and Juliet. He marriage of their children. hides Romeo when he has killed Tybalt. b Hermione is Perdita’s mother. Perdita is Open answers He gives Juliet some medicine so that taken from her as a baby. They are ■ Student’s activities she can pretend she is dead and not joined again when Perdita returns to marry Paris. He sends a messenger to Sicily with Florizel. Activities before reading the book Romeo to tell him. He goes to the grave c Perdita is Leontes’daughter, but he Open answers to try to persuade Juliet to come out. He believes her to be Polixenes’child so he tells the Prince what happened. Activities while reading the book orders that she should be left in a b He orders Romeo to leave Verona. He deserted place. Because the baby had ‘The Winter’s Tale’ makes Montague and Capulet end their fine clothes and jewels, the Shepherd, quarrel. 1 (e), (h), (b), (d), (j), (g), (c), (a), (f), (i) many years later, can prove to Leontes 19 a brother, b uncle, c wife, d husband 2 (a) Polixenes and Camillo, (b) Florizel, that she is his lost daughter. 20 a His mother has married his uncle only (c) Camillo, (d) The Shepherd, (e) Paulina, 5 He loses his love for the queen by making two months after his father ’s death and (f) Hermione himself sure, without a reason, that she has his uncle has become king ‘King Lear’ been unfaithful with Polixenes. Paulina tells b He was murdered by his brother and his him the queen is dead but many years later, 1 (a) He means to divide it equally between wife was unfaithful. c Hamlet killed her when he is truly sorry and Perdita has been his three daughters but changes his father, thinking it was the king. found, she makes him see what she says is mind and divides it between Goneril and 21 Open answers a statue of Hermione but is really Hermione Regan because Cordelia’s answer does 22 Open answers herself, who has been hidden. not please him. 23 lieutenant: army, officer, soldier 6 Open answers but in theory he will continue (b) She does not treat him with respect; she senator: government, politician, soldier to be treated as the king but no longer have tells her servants not to obey his orders; 24 a Because he is a foreigner, black and not any responsibility for the kingdom. she tells him he can not stay with all his of the same level. 7 a duke, earl soldiers. b Because she loves him (and she admired b crown (c) He is angry when Goneril tells him his the stories he told of his past life) 8 a Cordelia, b Kent, c Cordelia, d Goneril, e soldiers must go and thinks Regan will c Because Cassio has been given a job in Kent and the Fool, f Lear, g Goneril, treat him better. But she treats him in the his place (and because he thinks Othello h Goneril, i Cordelia, j Kent same way, and when Goneril comes has slept with Emilia). (Modern critics do 9 Open answers after him, the two sisters agree and not agree with this second reason and 10 Open answers Regan tells him to go back with Goneril. they would say instead that Iago hates 11 a it also means a bad–tempered woman (d) Because he is very angry with his Othello because he is envious of others’ b Open answers daughters and they will not let his success and happiness) 12 a He does not think anyone will want to followers enter the castle. d She asks him to give Cassio back his job marry her. (e) He thinks that the beggar has gone mad and she cannot find the handkerchief he b She is rich and beautiful and he thinks he because his daughters have treated him gave her because Emilia has stolen it. (In can tame her. badly. the play, because she lies to him about it c It is part of his plan to tame his wife. (It (f) Cordelia comes from France to find her and he sees it in the hands of Cassio’s can be argued that he wants to show that father and her soldiers find him mistress) the whole process is false, like his way of wandering mad near her camp and take e Othello strangles her. understanding of what Katharine says.) him to her. f He kills himself on his sword. d He is trying to tame her and make her 2 Open answers, but it is of interest that g He is sent to a painful death. obedient. Nahum Tate’s revision (1681) was the only 25 He was Othello’s friend when Othello wanted e She is tired of arguing and says it to one acted in Lamb’s lifetime (until 1838) to get to know Desdemona and he spoke in please him. ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ favour of Othello. He is given a new job of f To prove that he has tamed Katharine 1 (a) Petruchio to Baptista, when he hears lieutenant over Iago. He gets drunk and and she is now more obedient than their that Katharine has hit her music teacher. loses his position. He asks Desdemona to wives. It shows that he sees her as an speak to Othello to recover his position. He 13 a wild, bad–tempered, rude interesting person to tame. is wounded by a man following Iago’s b tame, obedient (b) Katharine, when her father tells her she instructions. He tells Othello that he and c amusing and good–natured – in Mary must marry Petruchio on Sunday. She Desdemona were innocent. Lamb’s opinion. No woman today would thinks her father is wrong to make her 26 He does it by pretending to see something agree with her. Sharp, clever? marry a mad man. suspicious in the fact that Cassio talks to 14 Open answers (c) Petruchio, on the way to Baptista’ s Desdemona; by making him jealous through 15 a mask house, after the wedding. It is part of his telling him not to be jealous; by arranging for b angel plan to make her obey him before she the handkerchief to be stolen and making c friar sees her father again. Othello believe that Desdemona gave it to 16 a Romeo thinks he is in love with her. (d) Katharine to Vincentio, pretending he is a Cassio. (Above all, and much more clearly in Rosaline has no feeling for him. young woman, because Petruchio has the play, by playing on Othello’s lack of said she is. confidence. He is much older than © Pearson Education 2001 Penguin Readers Answer Key More Tales from Shakespeare (e) Petruchio to the other husbands, (g) True explaining the advantages of an (h) He thinks she had given it to Cassio obedient wife. but this is not true. (f) Bianca to her husband when he 2 The answer should be Leontes. says that he bet on her obedience Activities after reading the book and has lost the bet. 2 Open ended, but in the play, though Open answers Mary Lamb does not include this, Shakespeare shows that at the end Petruchio and Katharine know each other better and work as a team, while Bianca is not so ‘gentle’and obedient as everyone imagined. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 1 (a) would not have gone to/met Juliet at the Capulets’feast. (b) had not worn/been wearing a mask. (c) had not called on her lover by name when he was in the garden. (d) would not have fought with him. (e) would not have gone to Friar Lawrence for help/drunk the medicine the friar gave her. (f) had arrived earlier. (g) would not have killed him. (h) had woken up sooner. (i) would have drunk it. (j) would not have died/had an unhappy death. 2 Open answers ‘Hamlet’ 1 (a) Gertrude, (b) Horatio, (c) Hamlet’ s father, (d) Hamlet, (e) the actors, (f) Polonius, (g) Ophelia, (h) Laertes, (i) Claudius, (j) Horatio 2 Open answers, but (a) Hamlet waits until he can prove Claudius guilty because the Ghost may be a devil, not telling the truth.