William Shakespeare Quiz 27 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who is Lady Capulet's nephew?

Correct Answer: D) Probably.

2. Which is the longest play by William Shakespeare

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet.

3. To whom is the actor speaking during a soliloquy?

Correct Answer: A) Themselves.

4. To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to?

Correct Answer: C) Narrative Poems.

5. A sonnet contains ..... lines.

Correct Answer: C) 14.

6. What was Shakespeare's wife's name?

Correct Answer: B) Anne Hathaway.

7. A ..... is a 14-line poem with a formal rhyme scheme.

Correct Answer: C) Sonnet.

8. What happened to the Shakespeare's theatre in 1613?

Correct Answer: C) It burnt down.

9. How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare's plays?

Correct Answer: D) 13.

10. My dog is acting like Jekyll and Hyde. What is the allusion referring to?

Correct Answer: A) Literature/mythology.

11. Which of the following is not one of the categories that Shakespeare's plays fall into?

Correct Answer: B) Romance.

12. When did W. Shakespeare die?

Correct Answer: C) 23, April, 1616.

13. Shakespeare's success in the London theatres made him .....

Correct Answer: B) Considerably wealthy.

14. Who is killed in the bedchamber of Gertrude?

Correct Answer: C) Polonius.

15. Shakespeare works and retires in this place:

Correct Answer: C) Stratford-on-Avon.

16. What year was Shakespeare born?

Correct Answer: B) 1564.

17. What was his most famous work and when was it published? ?

Correct Answer: D) Hamlet, 1603.

18. Where is William Shakespeare buried?

Correct Answer: A) Holy Trinity Church.

19. The Globe Theatre .....

Correct Answer: B) Can hold 3, 000 spectators!.

20. What are William Shakespeare's kids name?

Correct Answer: A) Hamnet Shakespeare, Judith quiney, and Susanna hall.