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This unique and challenging activity offers a student or a group of students the opportunity to seek out interesting and
educational information about the plays of William Shakespeare. This can be utilized as a challenging individual
enrichment activity for an accelerated student or an equally challenging and fun activity as a class project. The
scavenger hunt questions are a blend of traditional questions along with a more difficult trivia component. Study the play
to answer the following questions.
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Last line of the words engraved on Shakespeare's tomb.
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Name the street where Shakespeare was born.
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Poem published in 1593.
4.
What did Shakespeare apply for in 1596?
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Name of the home Shakespeare purchased in 1597.
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Structure built in 1599 to present his plays.
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Name of the indoor theatre purchased (1608-09) to present his plays.
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Published in 1623 by his friends as a memorial.
9.
Shakespeare play that opens with witches.
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Names of Shakespeare's twins.
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Patron saint of England.
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The age of Shakespeare's son when he died.
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Where is Shakespeare buried?
14.
First name of Shakespeare's father.
15.
This play has a character named Puck.
16.
Age of Shakespeare when he got married.
17.
Month, day and year of Shakespeare's birth.
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Month, day and year of Shakespeare's death.
19.
Maiden name of Shakespeare's mother.
20.
This play has a character named Shylock.
21.
Age of Shakespeare when he died.
22.
First play he ever wrote.
23.
Maiden name of Shakespeare's wife.
24.
Name of Shakespeare's first born.
25.
This play has a character named Ophelia.
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(1) "Blessed be the man that shares these stones and cursed be he that moves my bones" (2) Henley Street (3) Venus and Adonis (4) A coat of arms (5) New
Home (6) Globe Theatre (7) Blackfriars (8) First Folio (9) Macbeth (10) Hamnet and Judith (11) St. George (12) 11 (13) Stratford Churchyard (14)
John (15) A Midsummer Night's Dream (16) 18 (17) April 23, 1564 (18) April 23, 1616 (19) Mary Arden (20) The Merchant of Venice (21) 52 (22) Henry VI,
Part 1 (23) Anne Hathaway (24) Susanna (25) Hamlet
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