William Shakespeare Quiz 60 (20 MCQs)

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1. Name the theatre when Shakespeare performed many of his plays?

Correct Answer: B) The Globe.

2. Which of these plays did he not write?

Correct Answer: C) Cupid's Revenge.

3. Which of Shakespeare's plays is a comedy about fairies and humans?

Correct Answer: D) Midsummer NIght's Dream.

4. Avon is the pretty river with grass and trees all along its banks.

Correct Answer: A) True.

5. What is the difference between Ophelia's madness and Hamlet's?

Correct Answer: A) Ophelia's madness is authentic and caused by external conflicts; Hamlet's madness may be feigned.

6. What were people who stood in the pit of the Globe Theater called?

Correct Answer: D) Groundlings.

7. William Shakespeare died on the same day as he was born, at the age of 52.

Correct Answer: A) True.

8. Most of Shakespeare's plays are based on his own original ideas.

Correct Answer: B) False.

9. Romeo and Juliet rebel against society and their parents and suffer a death .....

Correct Answer: A) Tragic.

10. What was the name of Shakespeare Theatre?

Correct Answer: B) The Globe.

11. In Othello the theme of is addressed.

Correct Answer: D) Jealousy.

12. Who is Romeo in love with at the beginning of the play?

Correct Answer: B) Rosaline.

13. What year was William Shakespeare born?

Correct Answer: B) 1564.

14. Who is Benvolio?

Correct Answer: D) A cousin of Romeo.

15. "To be or not to be, that is the question" . These lines are from

Correct Answer: C) Hamlet.

16. How many siblings did William Shakespeare have?

Correct Answer: A) 2 older sisters, 2 younger sisters, and 3 younger brothers.

17. He worked as an actor

Correct Answer: B) True.

18. In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare does all of the following except

Correct Answer: D) Suggest that poetry is more interesting than most people.

19. How long is a sonnet?

Correct Answer: C) 14 lines.

20. Women acted in Shakespeare's time

Correct Answer: B) False.