This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 26 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does Montesco do at the end of the play? A) He tells Capulet that their families will unite in honor of their children. B) He tells Capulet that he will have a gold statue created in honor of Juliet. C) He tells Capulet that he will have the two bodies buried together. D) He tells Capulet that he will have a gold statue made of the two lovers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He tells Capulet that he will have a gold statue created in honor of Juliet. 2. What university did Shakespeare attend? A) London. B) He was not university educated. C) Harvard. D) Stratford-on-Avon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He was not university educated. 3. TRUE OR FALSEMany of Shakespeare's words, phrases, and stories are still used today. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Hamlet's father dies: A) Poisoned. B) In combat. C) Stabbed. D) Killed by Laertes. E) Accidentally. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poisoned. 5. The author of Macbeth is ..... A) Ernest Hemingway. B) Francesco Petrarca. C) William Shakespeare. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 6. Shakespeare's wife's name was Anne Hathaway. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Which of his plays was performed at the opening of the Estonian Theater on August 24, 1913? A) "Hamlet". B) "Julius Caesar". C) "Romeo and Julia". D) "King Lear". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Hamlet". 8. He died at the age of A) -32. B) -42. C) -52. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -52. 9. What does Juliet do to avoid her wedding to Paris? A) He runs away with Romeo. B) He fakes his own death. C) He tries to commit suicide. D) He asks his mother for help. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He fakes his own death. 10. Which of the following is a play of Shakespeare's? A) Antony and Cleopatra. B) The Seagull. C) Ajax. D) A Doll's House. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antony and Cleopatra. 11. Explain the main theme in Sonnet 130? A) The main idea in most of Shakespeare's sonnets is presented by the final two lines, the rhyming couplet. Many sonnets take love as its subject and use hyperbole or metaphors that compare a woman's beauty to objects in unrealistic ways. B) The main idea in this sonnet is that true love does not exist and that people change and reveal their true nature after some time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The main idea in most of Shakespeare's sonnets is presented by the final two lines, the rhyming couplet. Many sonnets take love as its subject and use hyperbole or metaphors that compare a woman's beauty to objects in unrealistic ways. 12. He ..... as an actor A) Workded. B) Worked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Worked. 13. The open stage of the Elizabethan Theatre allowed plays to move quickly A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. What theatre dis He build? A) He built the Globe Theatre. B) He built the Lincoln Center. C) He built the Opera House. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He built the Globe Theatre. 15. My dog is acting like Jekyll and Hyde. What is the allusion referring to? A) Literature/mythology. B) Religious. C) Historical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literature/mythology. 16. Whose death does Romeo avenge? A) Benvolio. B) Mercuccio. C) Teobald. D) Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mercuccio. 17. Was William Shakespeare more than a writer? A) Playwright and singer. B) Playwright and painter. C) Playwright and poet. D) Playwright and teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Playwright and poet. 18. Romeo's faithful friends A) Tybald. B) Mercucio the Benvolio. C) Escalo and Paris. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mercucio the Benvolio. 19. William Shakespeare also known as: A) The Bard of Blood. B) The Bard of Amagh. C) The Bard of Avon. D) The Bard of Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Bard of Avon. 20. What is the metaphor in Sonnet 18? A) Comparing Shakespeare to his beloved. B) Comparing his beloved to a summer's day. C) Comparing Shakepeare to a summer's day. D) Comparing his beloved to time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comparing his beloved to a summer's day. ← 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