This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 18 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many daughters did he have? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 2. The commonly known "Balcony scene" is from which play? A) The Tempest. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) As You Like It. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romeo and Juliet. 3. Unlike Shakespeare, de Vere traveled to locations important in Shakespeare's plays. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. What was the name of the grammar school Shakespeare attended? A) Queen's Grammar School. B) King's New School. C) Shakespeare Grammar School. D) Royal Grammar School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King's New School. 5. Which stage of life is described as having a shining morning face and creeping unwillingly to school? A) Infant. B) Soldier. C) Lover. D) Schoolboy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Schoolboy. 6. How often did the Globe theatre play? A) Once a month. B) Twice a week. C) Occasionally. D) Six times a week. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Six times a week. 7. The Globe theatre can be found in: A) Paris. B) New York. C) Stratford. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London. 8. The famous theater in which Shakespeare performed and partly owned was called the ..... A) Shakespearean Theater. B) London Theater. C) World Theater. D) Globe Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Globe Theater. 9. What is one of the reasons why Shakespeare's plays were popular? A) They were performed at the king's court. B) They were performed by women. C) They were written in a special language. D) They had complex plots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were performed at the king's court. 10. How many grandkids did Shakespeare have? A) 5. B) 3. C) 6. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6. 11. What shape was The Globe? A) Circle. B) Hexagon. C) Square. D) Triangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circle. 12. What prank does Puck get up to while the craftsmen rehearse? A) It leaves Snow speechless. B) Transforms Quincio into a horse. C) Transforms Bottom's head into that of a donkey. D) Apply the flower juice to Flauto's eyelids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transforms Bottom's head into that of a donkey. 13. On what date do we think Shakespeare was born? A) November 5, 1616. B) April 23, 1564. C) April 23, 1616. D) November 5, 1564. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) April 23, 1564. 14. What language did he study at school? A) Italian. B) French. C) Latin. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Latin. 15. During whose reign were many of Shakespeare's plays performed? A) Queen Elizabeth I. B) King Richard III. C) King James I. D) King Henry VIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Queen Elizabeth I. 16. Which of the following was not coined by Shakespeare? A) Lovely. B) Manager. C) Luggage. D) Fashionable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lovely. 17. He go ..... for work A) America. B) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) London. 18. Since it mixes some of the characteristics of this literary genre:love, tragedy and death A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 19. What does the word "dun" mean? As used in the sonnet A) Another word for snow. B) A grey color. C) A white color. D) Finished/ completed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A grey color. 20. He was born around April 23, ..... A) 1565. B) 1566. C) 1564. D) 1567. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1564. 21. When did W. Shakespeare die? A) 23, April, 1600. B) 20, April, 1616. C) 23, April, 1616. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 23, April, 1616. 22. To which family did the beautiful young Juliet belong? A) She was the niece of Friar Lorenzo. B) To the Montagues. C) To the Prince's family. D) To that of the Capulets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To that of the Capulets. 23. Hamlet loves Gertrude in the play. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. ..... was not written by Shakespeare. A) Macbeth. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Twelfth Night. D) Manfred. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manfred. 25. Where did Shakespeare move to in 1592? A) Germany. B) France. C) Paris. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London. 26. Shakespeare was 18 when he got married. How old was his new wife? A) 18. B) 25. C) 26. D) 22. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 26. 27. And all we are is skin and bone, trained to get along, forever going. A) TS. B) WS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TS. 28. When did W.Shakespeare die? A) 1666. B) 1616. C) 1661. D) 1717. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1616. 29. How does Hamlet's encounter with Fortinbras in Act IV help Hamlet avenge his father's death? A) Fortinbras encourages Hamlet to seek revenge as a way of curing his madness. B) Hamlet decides that he would like to be as free of conflict as Fortinbras is. C) Fortinbras agrees to support Hamlet in his effort to become King of Denmark. D) Hamlet is inspired by Fortinbras's passion about an insignificant parcel of land. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet is inspired by Fortinbras's passion about an insignificant parcel of land. 30. Shakespeare lived in ..... with his family. A) Frankfurt-on-Main. B) Stratfort-upon-Avon. C) Staratfort-upon-Don. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratfort-upon-Avon. 31. How does Act I end? A) The ball is abruptly interrupted. B) Romeo and Juliet discover that their families are enemies. C) Capulet, Juliet's father, orders Romeo to stop seeing his daughter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romeo and Juliet discover that their families are enemies. 32. What does the Willow Song mean? A) Talk about a misunderstood love. B) Talk about sad omens. C) Talk about love. D) Talk about unfounded jealousy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talk about sad omens. 33. In which year did Shakespeare move to London? A) 1592. B) 1580. C) 1590. D) 1585. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1592. 34. Acting companies spent a lot of money on ..... A) Insurance. B) Costumes. C) Refreshments. D) Scenery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Costumes. 35. Plays are football plays. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 36. The play begins with a quarrel between the Montagues and the Capulets. What sentence does the prince foresee if the two families provoke each other once again in the streets? A) The prison. B) Exile. C) The death. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The death. 37. Where were most of his plays performed A) World globe. B) Globe world. C) Globe theater. D) Long theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Globe theater. 38. Why did Shakespeare have to drop out of school? A) His father lost his fortune. B) He was orphaned. C) He was failing all his courses. D) He didn't drop out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His father lost his fortune. 39. What caused the original Globe Theater to be destroyed? A) A fire. B) Looting Catholics. C) Bankruptcy and use as a building material. D) Rotting of wooden structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A fire. 40. -William Shakespeare fue dramaturgo: A) Towards sculptures. B) He wrote plays. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He wrote plays. 41. During the Black Death Shakespeare wrote sonnets and poems A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. Name of his spouse(wife) A) Anne Hathaway. B) Juliet Hathaway. C) Margaret Hathaway. D) Liza Hathaway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anne Hathaway. 43. Oxfordians say that Shakespeare agreed to pretend that he wrote the plays. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 44. True or false?Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of August 1564 A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 45. In 1596, which close relative died for William Shakespeare? A) Hamnet, his son. B) Anne, his wife. C) Susana, his daughter. D) Judith, her mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamnet, his son. 46. Iago makes Othello hide to observe his conversation with Cassio, carried on by him evilly. In reality, he is talking about Blanca, but in such a way that Othello thinks she is referring to Desdemona. A) Acto III. B) Acto I. C) Act V. D) Acto II. E) Acto IV. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Acto IV. 47. Juliet comes from a family named: A) Benvolio. B) Capulet. C) Montague. D) Mercutio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capulet. 48. What form of name did Shakespeare not use as his signature? A) William Shaksper. B) William Shakespeare. C) Wm Shakspe. D) Willm Shakp. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare. 49. The survivor of the Hamlet tragedy is: A) Polonium. B) Horacio. C) Hamlet. D) Claudio. E) Laertes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horacio. 50. He ..... shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, and makes himself and artificial night. A) WS. B) TS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) WS. 51. How many lines are there in a sonnet? A) 17. B) 14. C) 12. D) 24. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14. 52. After talking to the ghost, Hamlet is ..... A) Happy and calm. B) Mean and angry. C) Sad and tired. D) Jealous and envious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mean and angry. 53. All love ever does is break and burn and end A) WS. B) TS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TS. 54. What is something that Shakespeare did during his "lost years?" A) He moved to London to begin his acting career. B) He wrote "Romeo and Juliet". C) He married his wife, Anne. D) He quit acting and writing plays for good. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He moved to London to begin his acting career. 55. Why is Romeo so sad at the beginning of the play? A) He is in love with a young girl who is indifferent to his love. B) He had an argument with a friend. C) He is upset by the incessant arguments between the two clans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is in love with a young girl who is indifferent to his love. 56. -Year of birth and death of William Shakespeare. A) 1566-1618. B) 1564-1616. C) 1563-1617. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1564-1616. 57. How many plays did William Shakespeare write about great kings? A) 20. B) 5. C) 15. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 10. 58. What did William father do? A) An actor. B) A golfer. C) An alderman. D) A doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An alderman. 59. Where did Shakespeare build the largest open-air amphitheater? A) London. B) Manchester. C) Birmingham. D) Stratford-upon-Avon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) London. 60. Cuando murio william Shakespeare? A) May 20, 1614. B) April 23, 1616. C) 14 mayo 1624. D) None of above. 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