This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > William Shakespeare – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A division within a play, much like chapters of a novel A) Act. B) Aside. C) Dialogue. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Act. 2. What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613? A) 51. B) 49. C) 62. D) 53. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 49. 3. An English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, and the world's preeminent dramatists A) William Shakespeare. B) Homer. C) Edgar Allen Poe. D) Stephen King. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Shakespeare. 4. To which age of English literature does William Shakespeare belong? A) Classical Age. B) Elizabethan Age. C) Romantic Age. D) Modern Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabethan Age. 5. Shakespeare started the A) Globe Theater. B) Glass Theater. C) Trinity Theater. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Globe Theater. 6. Name the play within the play The Hamlet. A) King Priam. B) The Murder of Gonzago. C) The Death of Hamlet. D) Julius Caesar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Murder of Gonzago. 7. What is the correct punctuation mark to indicate the writer has deliberately missed out a word, sentence, or whole section from a text, without altering its original meaning? A) !. B) . C) ?. D) ,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) . 8. According to the poem, the second stage in a man's life is the A) Schoolboy. B) Lover. C) Soldier. D) Old man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Schoolboy. 9. How many variations of the spelling of his name are recorded? A) 80. B) 55. C) 23. D) 39. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 80. 10. In which place is the play Hamlet set? A) Dublin. B) Denmark. C) Egypt. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denmark. 11. What School did Shakespeare go to? A) King Edward VI School. B) Franklin. C) Lincoln. D) Allendale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Edward VI School. 12. What was William Shakespeare? A) Farmer. B) Poet. C) Fishmonger. D) Police. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet. 13. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, "My salad days, when I was green in judgment." come from? A) Antony and Cleopatra. B) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. C) The Winters Tale. D) The Merry Wives of Windsor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antony and Cleopatra. 14. In what year was the First Folio published? A) 1626. B) 1621. C) 1623. D) 1629. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1623. 15. What was the first name of the playing company King's Men that William Shakespeare partly-owned? A) Lord Chamberlain's Men. B) Stratford Theatre. C) The Queens Troupe. D) The London Theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Chamberlain's Men. 16. Who is the protagonist of the play Hamlet? A) Prince Hamlet. B) Gertrude. C) Claudius. D) King Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prince Hamlet. 17. How many Globe Theaters Are There? A) 1. B) 2. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 18. Where is Shakespeare from? A) England. B) France. C) New England. D) Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) England. 19. Shakespeare was an actor, a playwright and a ..... A) Scientist. B) Doctor. C) Businessman. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Businessman. 20. To whom did he marry? Why? A) Queen Elizabeth I, because she was wealthy. B) Mary Kelley, because he loved her. C) Anne Hathaway, because she was pregnant. D) Katherine of Aragon, because she was his brother's widow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anne Hathaway, because she was pregnant. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 10William Shakespeare Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books