This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You and I are past our dancing days. A) WS. B) TS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) WS. 2. Romeo was first in love with A) Valentine. B) Elena. C) Rosaline. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rosaline. 3. 'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.' Identify the play. A) Twelfth Night. B) A Midsummer Night's Dream. C) Romeo and Juliet. D) Trolius and Cressida. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Midsummer Night's Dream. 4. Why are the Capulets having a ball? A) It's a trap for the Montagues. B) To celebrate the city of Verona. C) For Juliette to meet Paris. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For Juliette to meet Paris. 5. His longest play, Hamlet, to be performed needs ..... A) 4 hours. B) 3 hours. C) 2 hours. D) 1 hour. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4 hours. 6. How do Romeo and Juliet know each other? A) During the Montague masked ball. B) During the dance at Julieta's presentation party. C) At Juliet's engagement dance with Paris. D) During a masked ball at the Verona festivities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) During the dance at Julieta's presentation party. 7. What was the name of the theater that Shakespeare invested in? A) The Round. B) The Oval. C) The Globe. D) The Square. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Globe. 8. He had ..... A) One child. B) Two children. C) Three children. D) Four children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three children. 9. How many women actors (actresses) were there during Shakespeare's time? A) 0. B) 38. C) 1, 700. D) The exact number is not known. . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0. 10. What happens when Titania wakes up? A) She plays Thisbe in the farce. B) He reconciles with Oberon. C) He has lost his memory and does not know how to return to Athens. D) He falls in love with Bottom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He falls in love with Bottom. 11. In which year did the Globe theater burn down? A) 1610. B) 1613. C) 1612. D) 1615. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1613. 12. Three of the following are true. One is a lie. Can you guess which one? A) Shakespeare died on his birthday. B) Shakespeare was a university professor before he started writing plays. C) Shakespeare invented over 1700 words that we still use today. D) Shakespeare wrote a curse which is displayed on his grave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespeare was a university professor before he started writing plays. 13. What was the name of the acting company that William Shakespeare was a part of? A) The Globe Company. B) The Royal Shakespeare Company. C) The King's Men. D) The Players Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The King's Men. 14. Which of the following is not a tragedy by Shakespeare? A) King Lear. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Macbeth. D) As You Like It. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) As You Like It. 15. A soliloquy is like a window on the character's thoughts A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. He wrote three kinds of plays ..... A) Tragedy, Comedy and history. B) Tragic, funny, comical. C) Sad, love, death. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragedy, Comedy and history. 17. What is the title of the play considered the greatest of Shakespeare's final four plays? A) The Tempest. B) Hamlet. C) Julius Caesar. D) Romeo and Juliet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Tempest. 18. How would Shakespeare please the groundlings in his audience? A) With bawdy jokes. B) With poetic language. C) With heart-wrenching romance. D) With stories about kings and nobles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With bawdy jokes. 19. Where did Shakespeare work? A) Stratford. B) London. C) Oxford. D) Cambridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) London. 20. What relationship is there between Duncan and Macbeth: A) Cousins. B) Uncle and nephew. C) Father and son. D) Father-in-law and son-in-law. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cousins. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesWilliam Shakespeare Quiz 1William Shakespeare Quiz 2William Shakespeare Quiz 3William Shakespeare Quiz 4William Shakespeare Quiz 5William Shakespeare Quiz 6William Shakespeare Quiz 7William Shakespeare Quiz 8William Shakespeare Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books