This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 44 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. William Shakespeare married at the age of ..... A) 18. B) 26. C) 20. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 18. 2. At what stage of his career did W. S. compose Romeo and Juliet? A) In the first half. B) In the second half. C) He didn't score the piece. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the first half. 3. They are characters from Hamlet, except: A) Gertrude. B) Paris. C) Claudio. D) Fortimbras. E) Laertes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paris. 4. A story which is said to be a tragedy is ..... A) Meant to make people feel angry. B) Meant to make people feel sad and serious. C) Meant to make people laugh. D) Meant to make people feel excited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meant to make people feel sad and serious. 5. In his will, Shakespeare left his wife A) His fortune. B) Nothing. C) A bed. D) A folio (book of plays). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A bed. 6. Who tells all the details of the plan and what really happened to Romeo and Juliet? A) Fray Lorenzo. B) Baltasar, Romeo's servant. C) Count Paris's page. D) Juliet's mistress. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fray Lorenzo. 7. True or False:In his young adulthood, Shakespeare hunted deer in the countryside. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. A cut in the stage to use for bringing characters up to the scene A) Stairs through. B) Hindge. C) Side door. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stairs through. 9. The total number of Shakespeare's plays varies somewhat, depending on who is counting them, but the total shifts between ..... as scholars reassess references to his lost plays ..... Love's Labor's Won and Cardenio ..... and analyze how large a hand he had in some collaboratively-written plays. A) 31-34. B) 36-40. C) 150-200. D) 300-320. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 36-40. 10. People paid ..... to stand around the stage. A) $ 1. B) One penny. C) 50 cents. D) $ 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One penny. 11. William Shakespeare was a great writer of both tragedy and comedy. A) True. B) False. C) We don't know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Who was the queen of England during Shakespeare's lifetime? A) Victoria. B) Elizabeth I. C) Elizabeth II. D) Victoria II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth I. 13. What is the name of your first poem? A) Romeo and Juliet. B) Venus and Adonis. C) Macbeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus and Adonis. 14. Shakespeare is known as A) Father of Drama. B) Bard of Avon. C) Both of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bard of Avon. 15. Which drama of Shakespeare is known as the Monalisa of Shakespeare? A) Hamlet. B) Macbeth. C) Othello. D) Midsummer Night's Dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 16. What does the Shakespeare question cover? A) The question is why he died. B) The question is, what religion was W.S. C) The question is whether he modeled Romeo's figure on himself. D) The question is whether W. S. really wrote the works, since his knowledge could not have made this possible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The question is whether W. S. really wrote the works, since his knowledge could not have made this possible. 17. Which of the following pieces of literature was NOT written by Shakespeare? A) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. B) The Canterbury Tales. C) The Tragedy of Macbeth. D) A Midsummer Night's Dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Canterbury Tales. 18. Who drinks the poison in Hamlet? A) The queen. B) Laertes. C) Hamlet. D) The king. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The queen. 19. Which university did William Shakespeare attend? A) Oxford. B) Cambridge. C) London. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None. 20. What was the name of the theater built by Shakespeare's company? A) Globe Theater. B) Royal Theater. C) Shakespeare Theater. D) King's Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Globe Theater. ← 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