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Puzzle from November 2002 Mensagenda
Donna's Diary
by Donna Myhrer
Death by Shakespeare
This month I am going to try something different. I will supply a line from the Bard,
which the character in one or another of his plays says just before the character dies. Then
I will make it really easy by listing four characters’ names and all you have to do is pick
the correct speaker. The answers are here.
1. “I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee: no
way but this, Killing myself, to die
upon a kiss.”
A. Romeo
B. MacBeth
C. Hamlet
D. Othello
2. “The stroke of death is as a lover’s
pinch, Which hurts and is desired.”
A. Lady MacBeth
B. Cleopatra
C. Portia
D. Jessica
3. “O true apothecary! Thy drugs are
quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”
A. Romeo
B. Hamlet
C. Othello
D. Iago
4. “My sickness grows upon me.”
A. Lady MacBeth
B. Regan
C. Goneril
D. King Lear
5. “Mine and my father’s death, come
not upon thee. Nor thine on me!”
A. Iago
B. MacDuff
C. Laertes
D. Romeo
6. “He has my dying voice; So tell him,
with the occurrents, more or less
Which have solicited. The rest is
silence.”
A. Romeo
B. MacBeth
C. King Lear
D. Hamlet
7. “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O
happy dagger! This is thy sheath!
There rust and let me die.”
A. Lady MacBeth
B. Lady MacDuff
C. Juliet
D. Duncan
8. “O, yet defend me, friends. I am but
hurt.”
A. King Claudius
B. Tybalt
C. Brutus
D. Hamlet
9. “O, I could prophesy, But that the
earthy and cold hand of death Lies
on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art
dust And food for . . .”
A. Mercutio
B. Tybalt
C. Romeo
D. Hotspur
10. ”The drink, the drink! I am
poison’d!”
A. Lady MacBeth
B. Queen Gertrude
C. Ophelia
D. Juliet
11. “Thou, wretched boy, that didst
consort with him here, Shalt with
him hence.”
A. Tybalt
B. Mercutio
C. Romeo
D. Skylock
12. “Why should a dog, a horse, a rat
have life, And thou no breath at all?
Thou’ll come no more, Never, never,
never, never, never! Pray you, undo
this button: thank you, sir. Do you
see this? Look on her, look, her
lips, Look there, look there!”
A. King Lear
B. Hamlet
C. Richard III
D. Othello
13. “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for
a horse!”
A. King John
B. King Claudius
C. Richard III
D. Hamlet
14. “Ask me not what I know.”
A. Portia
B. Goneril
C. Cordelia
D. Queen Gertrude
15. “And damn’d be he that first cries
‘Hold, enough!’”
A. King Lear
B. Laertes
C. Hamlet
D. MacBeth
16. “Help me into some house,
Benvolio, Or I shall faint. A plague
o’ both your houses! They have
made worms’ meat of me: I have it
And soundly too:
your houses!”
A. Tybalt
B. MacBeth
C. Mercutio
D. Othello
17. “My heart hath one poor string to
stay it by, Which holds but till thy
news be utter’d; And then all this
thou seest is but a clod And module
of confounded royalty.”
A. Richard III
B. Richard IV
C. Henry IV
D. King John
18. “A guiltless death I die.”
A. Desdemona
B. Cleopatra
C. Juliet
D. Regan
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