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Services and Occupations
1.
Where would you find readymade clothes?
2.
Where would you find drugs or medicine?
3.
Where would you go for dental surgery?
4.
Who takes care of the infants and children?
5.
What does a steward do?
More Services and Occupations
6.
From whom do you purchase furniture?
7.
What is a sawyer and what does he do?
Numbers & Measures, Dates & Clocks
8.
How is land measured?
9.
Is there a difference between two o’ clock and two of the clock?
More Measures
10. Gunpowder is sold by the ______________________.
11. Glass is sold by the _____________________.
Games
12.
13.
Polonius (Hamlet) says that gaming and drabbing are “companions .
. . to youth and liberty.” What does he mean by gaming and
drabbing?
What modern-day game became popular during the Elizabethan
age?
Filling the Time
14. What is the Elizabethan position on gossip?
15. Why did theater performances occur during the afternoon?
16. What could a “gentleman of appearance” secure for an extra fee?
17. What was proper behavior for women in attendance?
18. Where were plays performed before theater houses were built?
More Things to Do
19. What is bear baiting?
Still More Things to Do
20. How did the sonnets of Shakespeare and Sidney originally appear,
or how were they originally publicized?
Money and Coinage
21. Out of what are all coins made?
22. What are the basic monetary denominations and their
abbreviations?
23. What is one of the most common gold coins in circulation?
24. What is the most common coin in circulation?
25. How much should you tip a household servant?
Greasing the Wheels
26. Explain the importance of sending or receiving gifts.
27. What types of “homemade” things could you send as a gift?
Food and Your Lifestyle
28. How many meals do people eat a day and at what times?
29. Why doesn’t “Tea Time” exist yet?
What We Eat
30. How did Elizabethans feel about the tomato and the potato?
31.
32.
Though not common, for what purpose was chocolate sometimes
used?
Explain the use of sugar.
Snack Foods
33. List 3 snack foods that Elizabethans ate.
Religion
34.
35.
36.
Is it criminal to be Catholic? What is the consequence?
Is it illegal to be a Catholic priest?
What sin did the Pope “pre-absolve” people from in 1570?
Catholics
37. The ghost in Hamlet spends his days in purgatory. What is
purgatory?
Church of England
38. What do members of the Protestant Church of England think about
purgatory?
Love & Marriage
39. Do people marry for love? Why or why not?
40. Are all Elizabethans expected to have children?
41. What kind of rights do widows have?
42. Under what conditions can an individual unilaterally break a
betrothal? (Or, break it off without the other person’s consent?)
Naming the Baby
43. What are the five common female names?
The City of London
44. Sadly, what could you commonly find adorning London Bridge?
45. Where did people empty their Chamber Pots?
46. What was the standard drink of the day?
Keeping Christmas
47. How did Elizabethans feel about hospitality?
48. Do Elizabethans believe in Santa Claus?
Gifts at the New Year
49. When are gifts given?
Funerals and Mourning
50. If you lived to be 12, how old could you possibly live to be and why?
51. What is the color for mourning?
52. Does every person receive a headstone? Why or why not?
53. What percentage of widows remarry?
Letter Writing
54. How would you open and close a letter to a mother?
Language: Some Random Vocabulary
55. To what does “corn” usually refer?
56. What is the main street of an English town usually called?
57. What is a poppet?
More Language
58. What does “wherefore” mean?
59. To stay means to what?
60. Write down ten things from this website that you did not previously know
(your answers cannot contain information that you learned from this handout).
Be prepared to share your answers with the class.