This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Lisa:Do you think that these flowers can be good present for Mother's Day?Rini: ..... but I think a tie would be better. Your father can wear it for work. A) I'm sure. B) I think so. C) I'm not sure. D) I agree. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I'm not sure. 2. Where is the modern Globe theatre? A) Paris. B) New York. C) London. D) Cambridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London. 3. What is the name of Shakespeare's only son? A) Richard. B) Henry. C) Edward. D) Hamnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamnet. 4. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. How many plays did he write? A) 38. B) 48. C) 28. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 38. 5. Who attacked William Shakespeare in writing for his work as an actor and playwright? A) Robert Greene. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) Flight johnson. D) John Fletcher. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Greene. 6. The actors of Shakespeare's time were ..... A) All female. B) All male. C) All related. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All male. 7. What is the name of the person who financially supported Shakespeare's work in the beginning of his writing career? A) Henry Wriothesley. B) King James I. C) Thomas Middleton. D) Giles Allen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Henry Wriothesley. 8. If another person wrote about Tiger Woods, it would be a/an ..... A) Autobiography. B) Biography. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biography. 9. Which modern-day actress shares a name with Shakespeare's wife? A) Elizabeth Banks. B) Lindsay Lohan. C) Emma Watson. D) Anne Hathaway. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anne Hathaway. 10. -He is recognized as the greatest exponent of English literature. A) TRUE. B) Falso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 11. What is Hamlet's famous monologue that reflects on the meaning of life? A) Vengeance is mine. B) To be or not to be. C) Destiny is written. D) Eternal love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To be or not to be. 12. For William Shakespeare, what event definitively stopped his acting and playwriting career? A) The bubonic plague. B) The change of monarch, from Queen Elizabeth I to James I. C) The prohibitions of the church. D) The Globe theater fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Globe theater fire. 13. What is the name of the theater where most of Shakespeare's plays were performed? A) The Globe Theater. B) The World Theater. C) The Great Playhouse. D) Scotland Yard Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Globe Theater. 14. William Shakespeare was also known as ..... A) "The poet". B) "The bard". C) "The Apis". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The bard". 15. According to the text, what was one of William Shakespeare's occupations? A) Glove-maker. B) Actor. C) Teacher. D) Farmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Actor. 16. Shakespeare worked A) In London. B) At home. C) In Stratfort-upon-Avon. D) Near his family. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In London. 17. According to Titania's command, who are the fairies who will serve Bottom? A) Circe, Menelaus, Lotus Flower and Honey Bee. B) Pea Flower, Spider Web, Moth and Mustard Seed. C) Nestor, Telemachus, Helen and Paris. D) Cassandra, Phoenix, Snowflake and Spiderweb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pea Flower, Spider Web, Moth and Mustard Seed. 18. The first act of this drama begins A) Conflict. B) Wedding. C) With lunch. D) Celebrating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conflict. 19. He is known mostly for his ..... A) -stories. B) -novels. C) -dramas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -dramas. 20. Shakespeare was an English: A) Scientist. B) Writer and a poet. C) Explorer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writer and a poet. 21. How did the Globe Theater announce when a play was taking place? A) The town crier. B) A flag. C) The newspaper. D) Social media. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A flag. 22. No one knows his exact date of birth. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. True or False:Shakespeare owned an acting company and a theater. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. The audience members who paid one penny to stand in the pit and watch the performance were called ..... A) Peasants. B) Lord Chamberlain's Men. C) The pit. D) Penny-stinkers or groundlings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Penny-stinkers or groundlings. 25. An English poet/playwright? A) William Shakespeare. B) Joseph Biden. C) William Wright. D) John Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Shakespeare. 26. What is the name of Shakespeare's first child? A) Judith. B) Susanna. C) Anne. D) Hamnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Susanna. 27. In addition to Iago's wife, Emilia is ..... A) Lady of Montano. B) Desdemona's Servant. C) Blanca's Servant. D) She is not Iago's wife. She is Cassio's lover. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desdemona's Servant. 28. His poems had ..... lines. A) 14. B) 16. C) 12. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14. 29. The play opens with the announcement of a wedding; In four days, May 1, A) Theseus, Duke of Athens, will marry Hippolyta. B) Oberon, king of the fairies. will adopt a child picked up by Titania. C) Lysander will marry Helena through the intercession of his father Aegeus. D) Hernia will marry Demetrio due to a decision made by her father and the duke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theseus, Duke of Athens, will marry Hippolyta. 30. During Shakespeare's lifetime, actors were called ..... A) Characters. B) Pretenders. C) Role takers. D) Players. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Players. 31. "Your harsh criticisms are like fish hooks that pierce my confidence." A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metapor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 32. What did Shakespeare leave his wife in his will? A) All of his money. B) Nothing. C) His second-best bed. D) The theatre that he built. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His second-best bed. 33. What year did he die? A) 1617. B) 1619. C) 1618. D) 1616. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1616. 34. Queen Elizabeth I frequented the Globe Theatre. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 35. Which one is not one of Shakespeare's Roman plays? A) Julius Caesar. B) Antony and Cleopatra. C) The Merry Wives of Windsor. D) Coriolanus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Merry Wives of Windsor. 36. His father was poor and often was in money difficulties. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 37. But they are part of two families that have been at enmity for many years. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 38. What is the relationship between these "two households" ? A) They are well-standing, wealthy business partners. B) They are strangers to each other. C) They are enemies and are involved in an old feud. D) They are both enemies of Verona. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are enemies and are involved in an old feud. 39. In what town was he born? A) Stoke on Trent. B) Newcastle on Tyne. C) Stratford upon Avon. D) Haire upon Weir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratford upon Avon. 40. Where did he go from Stratford-upon-Avon? A) U Bristol. B) U London. C) U Manchester. D) U Liverpool. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) U London. 41. The poems that Shakespeare wrote were called ..... A) Sonnets. B) Tragedies. C) Soliloquy. D) Comedies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnets. 42. Before being a playwriter, Shakespeare he A) Cooked bread. B) Built houses. C) Made dresses. D) Made gloves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Made gloves. 43. Romeo and Juliet ..... A) Fight each other. B) Aren't friends. C) Don't like each other. D) Get married. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Get married. 44. Which of the following is a distinctive feature of a Shakespearean sonnet? A) Rhyming Couplet. B) Stop, stop. C) Enjambment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyming Couplet. 45. Shakespeare's production can be considered baroque for: A) Very showy costumes. B) The ability to use wordplay. C) Refusal of verisimilitude, the talented use of language and the distance from the canons of classical theatre. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refusal of verisimilitude, the talented use of language and the distance from the canons of classical theatre. 46. What was his mother's maiden name? A) Elizabeth. B) Andrew. C) Arden. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arden. 47. He had three kids A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. William Shakespeare married at the age of ..... A) 18. B) 26. C) 20. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 18. 49. 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. 50. They are characters from Hamlet, except: A) Laertes. B) Gertrude. C) Paris. D) Fortimbras. E) Claudio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paris. 51. 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. 52. In his will, Shakespeare left his wife A) A folio (book of plays). B) His fortune. C) Nothing. D) A bed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A bed. 53. Who tells all the details of the plan and what really happened to Romeo and Juliet? A) Juliet's mistress. B) Baltasar, Romeo's servant. C) Count Paris's page. D) Fray Lorenzo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fray Lorenzo. 54. True or False:In his young adulthood, Shakespeare hunted deer in the countryside. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 55. 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. 56. 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. 57. People paid ..... to stand around the stage. A) $ 5. B) One penny. C) $ 1. D) 50 cents. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One penny. 58. 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. 59. Who was the queen of England during Shakespeare's lifetime? A) Elizabeth II. B) Victoria. C) Victoria II. D) Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabeth I. 60. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesWilliam Shakespeare Quiz 1William Shakespeare Quiz 2William Shakespeare Quiz 3William Shakespeare Quiz 4William Shakespeare Quiz 5William Shakespeare Quiz 6William Shakespeare Quiz 7William Shakespeare Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books