This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 17 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What year did Shakespeare die? A) 1642. B) 1616. C) 1599. D) 1623. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1616. 2. Comedy, History or Tragedy? 'All's Well That Ends Well' A) Comedy. B) History. C) Tragedy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comedy. 3. Shakespeare is credited for creating over ..... words. A) 1000. B) 100. C) 10. D) 1700. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1700. 4. In which years did William Shakespeare live? A) 1567-1649. B) 1552-1598. C) 1545-1602. D) 1564-1616. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1564-1616. 5. What was his theatre called? A) The Circle. B) The Earth. C) The Sphere. D) The Globe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Globe. 6. Plays normally began at dusk A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 7. How many plays did W. S. score in total? A) 37. B) 112. C) 47. D) 30. E) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 37. 8. What did Shakespeare explain eloquently through his writing? A) Human physiology. B) Human philosophy. C) Human sociology. D) Human psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human psychology. 9. Shakepeare died on A) August 5, 1650. B) September 1, 1564. C) June 6, 1978. D) April 23, 1616. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) April 23, 1616. 10. Shakespeare began grammar school around the age of ..... A) 9. B) 8. C) 7. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7. 11. Governor of Cyprus before Othello A) Graziano. B) Brabantio. C) Ludovico. D) Montano. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Montano. 12. Who is the speaker in this poem? A) A man who talks about his mistress and mocks conventional poems. B) A man who views his lover in a true light. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A man who talks about his mistress and mocks conventional poems. 13. What kind of education did W.Shakespeare get? A) Business Training. B) Grammar School. C) College of Oxford. D) University Degree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grammar School. 14. Towards the end of this tragedy, Julia A) Takes his own life. B) Marries Paris. C) Lives with Romeo in Mantua. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Takes his own life. 15. At first he worked as a/an ..... A) Actor. B) Farmer. C) Poet. D) Musician. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Actor. 16. Romeo and Juliet express feelings of: A) I hate it. B) Sadness. C) Amor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amor. 17. William Shakespeare's name first appeared in print in what year? A) 1594. B) 1593. C) 1592. D) 1591. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1592. 18. Some Shakespeare plays were written after Edward de Vere had died. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. What is the name of Shakespeare's birthplace? A) London. B) Cambridge. C) Oxford. D) Stratford-upon-Avon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stratford-upon-Avon. 20. This tragedy is written by William Shakespeare and it is a play by ..... A) Narrative. B) Lyrical. C) Teatro. D) Poetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teatro. 21. Who was an enthusiastic patron of William Shakespeares work ..... A) King James VI. B) Queen Elizabeth II. C) King James I. D) Queen Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King James I. 22. William Shakespeare came from a poor family and did not get enough education to write the plays. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 23. What type of language did Shakespeare use in his dramas? A) Delicate and elevated poetry. B) Casual and colloquial. C) Highly technical and scientific. D) Simple and straightforward. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Delicate and elevated poetry. 24. Shakespeare's play about a king and his three daughters is called A) Macbeth. B) Henry V. C) The King of Lear. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The King of Lear. 25. What was the occupation of William Shakespeare in London? A) All of the above. B) Poet. C) Playwright. D) Actor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of the above. 26. A way to contradict someone is A) I have to contradict you. B) I disgree with you. C) Let me interrupt you. D) All the options are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the options are correct. 27. What nickname is William Shakespeare fondly known as? A) The playwrite. B) The poet. C) The artist. D) The bard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The bard. 28. His wife, Anne Hathaway was eight years older to him. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 29. Who kills Banquo? A) Macduff. B) A group of assassins hired by Macbeth. C) Lennox. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of assassins hired by Macbeth. 30. Who were his parents? A) Jack and Mary. B) Jack and May. C) John and Mary. D) John and Anne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John and Mary. 31. What genres did William Shakespeare develop? A) Theater and poetry. B) Essay and theater. C) Drama and poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theater and poetry. 32. Queen Elizabeth's rule of England is referred to as the ..... era. A) Golden. B) English. C) Shakespearean. D) Elizabethan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabethan. 33. How many poems did William Shakespeare write? A) 160. B) 150. C) 154. D) 149. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 154. 34. Sometimes Shakespeare and his fellow actors presented plays for kings and queens. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 35. Sam worked as an ..... for a master electrician. A) Apprentice. B) Troupe. C) Lecture. D) Nobility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apprentice. 36. TRUE OR FALSE the theartre that William performed his plays in was called the dome? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 37. What is Shakespeare's shortest play? A) "A Midsummer Night's Dream". B) "Torm". C) "Comedy of Errors". D) "Macbeth". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Comedy of Errors". 38. Shakespeare worked and acted in the ..... theatre. A) Big. B) Globe. C) Covent Garden. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Globe. 39. Shakespeare was interested in A) Music. B) Theatre and literature. C) Painting. D) Sport. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theatre and literature. 40. William Shakespeare got his education at ..... A) Stratford Grammar School. B) London Grammar School. C) Stratford Primary School. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stratford Grammar School. 41. Why is it assumed that he was unhappily married? A) Because he often wrote against early marriage. B) Because he left his wife. C) Because his wife was cheating on him. D) Because his son died. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he often wrote against early marriage. 42. What famous Disney movie is based off of William Shakespeare's Hamlet? A) The Little Mermaid. B) Aladdin. C) Beauty and the Beast. D) The Lion King. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Lion King. 43. Why did the audience eat oranges while they watched the plays? A) Because they were hungry. B) Because they were rich. C) To get rid of bad smell. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To get rid of bad smell. 44. Shakespeare is best known for his sonnets. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 45. How were his plays made more exciting for his audience? A) With a lot of action. B) With songs and sad scenes. C) With special noises and a cannon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With special noises and a cannon. 46. What were the names of his 3 children? A) Susannah, Judith and Hamnet. B) Anne Hathaway, Judith and Hamlet. C) Susannah, Judith and Anne. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Susannah, Judith and Hamnet. 47. Which of the following by Shakespeare is a comedy. A) Hamlet. B) Othello. C) Macbeth. D) Merchant of Venice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Merchant of Venice. 48. What role does Horatio play in the resolution of the plot? A) He vows to tell the truth about what happened to Hamlet. B) He claims to have rights to the throne of Denmark. C) He is the character who benefits most from the events of the play. D) He is one of many characters who dies at the end of the play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He vows to tell the truth about what happened to Hamlet. 49. Twelfth Night is a A) Comedy. B) Drama. C) Tragedy. D) History. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comedy. 50. What was going on in the year of Shakespeare's birth that had tragic effects throughout Europe? A) Spanish Flu. B) The Bubonic Plague. C) Swine Flu. D) Zika Virus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Bubonic Plague. 51. All roles were played by men. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. Shakespeare's was an acclaimed ..... A) Novelist. B) Playwright. C) Song writer. D) Professor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Playwright. 53. In which town did Shakespeare grow up? A) Oxford. B) Stratford-upon-Avon. C) London. D) Cambridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratford-upon-Avon. 54. He wrote poems called ..... A) Poetry. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 55. What was the genre/type of plays he wrote at his last phase? A) Comedies. B) Tragicomedies. C) Horror. D) Tragedies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragicomedies. 56. True or False:Shakespeare has no living descendants today. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 57. Hamlet offends Ophelia, whom he loved deep down, because A) He was part of the plot against his father. B) It was used by his father Polonius to spy on the prince. C) He identifies her with the inconstancy typical of women. D) He's not sure if she's been completely faithful to him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He identifies her with the inconstancy typical of women. 58. Iago accompanies Rodrigo, lying in wait for him to kill Cassio, but he wounds Rodrigo, although he is wounded in the back by Iago. A) Acto I. B) Acto III. C) Acto II. D) Act V. E) Acto IV. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Act V. 59. What is W.Shakespeare's native town? A) Sheffield. B) Stratford-upon-Avon. C) Stoke-on-Trent. D) Salford. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratford-upon-Avon. 60. Desdemona's father's name is ..... A) Brabantio. B) Montano. C) Ludovico. D) Graziano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brabantio. ← 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