This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 25 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Shakespeare's plays are still popular today because they contain fantastic stories. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 2. Shakespeare's favorite occupation A) Actor. B) Playwright. C) Poet. D) Novelist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poet. 3. Performances during Shakespeare's time were held in the afternoons because most of the lighting has to be supplied by the ..... A) Night. B) Moon. C) Sun. D) Street lights. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun. 4. True or False:When Shakespeare could not find a word he could use, he would make one up. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Where did William Shakespeare die? A) London. B) Stratford-upon-Avon. C) Scotland. D) Brighton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratford-upon-Avon. 6. The play Romeo and Juliet is characterized by being: A) Fable. B) Yearning. C) Comedy. D) Tragedia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragedia. 7. There is serious debate about whether Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Edward de Vere A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. Shakespeare's plays were usually performed without music or sound effects A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. Gnomeo and Juliet is based on which Shakespeare play? A) Romeo and Juliet. B) Hamlet. C) Othello. D) Me and you. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romeo and Juliet. 10. What was his profession? A) Actor and writer, especially of plays. B) Professional soccer player. C) Singing. D) Cobbler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Actor and writer, especially of plays. 11. William Shakespeare was the part-owner of the London theatre ..... A) Globus. B) New Place. C) The Theatre. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Globus. 12. What does Prospero's final request for applause in the epilogue symbolize? A) Request for power. B) Request for freedom. C) Request for revenge. D) Request for forgiveness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Request for forgiveness. 13. What is the main idea of the text? A) William Shakespeare was a famous writer who lived a difficult life. B) William Shakespeare's plays are still important and relevant today. C) William Shakespeare was an actor and a playwright. D) William Shakespeare's plays were performed at The Globe theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare's plays are still important and relevant today. 14. Autobiographies and biographies ..... A) Are both fictional. B) Are both based on American people. C) Can be based on a person's thoughts and feelings. D) Both contain facts about a person's life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both contain facts about a person's life. 15. From which of Shakespeare's very renowned plays has this line been taken?'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears:I come to bury ..... , not to praise him.' A) King John. B) Love's Labour's Lost. C) Julius Caesar. D) The Two Gentlemen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Julius Caesar. 16. The theater where Shakespeare's play were acted out was called: A) The English Theater. B) The Globe Theater. C) The Royal Theater. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Globe Theater. 17. William Shakespeare was born born when many people died because of ..... A) The plague. B) The coronavirus. C) The leprosy. D) Cancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The plague. 18. How did william shakespeare die A) He died of sickness. B) No one knows why or how. C) Died of heart attack. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No one knows why or how. 19. He went to London because he had his family there. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. The theaters of the Elizabethan era A) They were wooden, circular buildings. B) They were both made of wood and tiles. C) They could be moved easily, so they were dismantled. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were wooden, circular buildings. 21. At what age did he die? A) At the age of 73. B) At the age of 52. C) At the age of 13. D) At 102 years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the age of 52. 22. The Globe Theatre was destroyed by a fire in 1997. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 23. Why did the Globe Theatre burn down? A) Lightning struck a balcony. B) The Great Fire of 1601 destroyed it. C) An act of arson from a rival acting troupe is thought to have started it. . D) A cannon used during a performance of Henry VII misfired. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A cannon used during a performance of Henry VII misfired. 24. In what country and century was William Shakespeare born? A) Paris, France during the 16th century. B) London, England during the 16th century. C) London, England during the 21st century. D) Paris, France during the 20th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) London, England during the 16th century. 25. William was born in A) Stratford-upon-Avon. B) Stratford-upon-Walbrook. C) Stratford-upon-Peck. D) Stratford-upon-Thames. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stratford-upon-Avon. 26. Which part of the writer's life do historians call 'the lost years' ..... ? A) Last years of writer's life. B) When William Shakspeare ran away from home. C) When William Shakspeare stopped writing for ten years. D) When William Shakespeare disappeared from records for around seven years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When William Shakespeare disappeared from records for around seven years. 27. What questions arose about the authorship of Shakespeare's work in the 18th century? A) His family background. B) His nationality. C) His writing style. D) His education. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His education. 28. Why is Shakespeare's birthday uncertain? A) There were no records of births during his time. B) His baptism threw everything off. C) He really wasn't truly a man. D) He was lost at birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There were no records of births during his time. 29. William Shakespeare's only son's name was Hamnet. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 30. In which genre of lyrical work did you create the most? A) There. B) Epigram. C) Anthem. D) Elegy. E) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Sonnet. 31. Sonnets are poems of 14 lines A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. The couplet in a Shakespearean Sonnet is there to A) Explain the main theme and summarize the sonnet. B) Extended the poem's metaphor. C) Provide a twist or conflict. D) Leave the reader with a lasting image. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leave the reader with a lasting image. 33. Lady Macbeth's dialogue in Act V, Scene 1 reveals her- A) Guilt. B) Confusion. C) Anger. D) Pridefulness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guilt. 34. Bonus! How many different words does Shakespeare use in his 37 plays? A) 4, 500. B) Less than 3, 000. C) More than 10, 000. D) About 17, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More than 10, 000. 35. Did Shakespeare go to university(college)? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 36. What was the scenery of the Globe like? A) A few small pieces. B) Many large pieces. C) No scenery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A few small pieces. 37. What is the name of Shakespeare's father and mother? A) Abraham and Sarah. B) William and Anne. C) John and Mary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John and Mary. 38. How many men reign as King of Scotland during the play? A) 1. B) 4. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 39. Mark the correct relationship about the works of William Shakespeare A) Romeo and Juliet-pure love. B) King Lear-doubt. C) Hamlet-ambition. D) Othello-evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romeo and Juliet-pure love. 40. Which clan do Mercutio and Benvolio belong to? A) To the Capulets. B) In Montaigu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In Montaigu. 41. Names of William Shakespeare's children A) Susanna, Sam and Noah. B) Susanna, Judith and Hamnet. C) Susanna, James and Liam. D) Susanna, Lucas and William. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Susanna, Judith and Hamnet. 42. Which personality describes Juliet correctly? A) Quite, obedient. B) Ambitious, cowardice. C) Obedient, ambitious. D) Quite, cowardice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quite, obedient. 43. He didn't have university degree A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. How many plays did William Shakespeare write that we know of? A) 154. B) 54. C) 37. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 37. 45. What form is the sonnet written in? A) Sonnet Form. B) Iambic Pentameter. C) Haiku. D) Iambic Hexameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic Pentameter. 46. Which Disney movie is based on Hamlet? A) The Lion King. B) The jungle book. C) Beauty and the Beast. D) Frozen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Lion King. 47. Shakespeare got married at a young age A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 48. Who was the main actor in the first performance at the Globe Theatre? A) Henry Condell. B) Richard Burbage. C) John Heminges. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Richard Burbage. 49. Which is the last play written by William Shakespeare? A) The Tempest. B) Mid-summer nights dream. C) The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. D) Merchant of Venice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Tempest. 50. Which is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy? A) Macbeth. B) King Lear. C) Hamlet. D) Othello. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth. 51. What was built in London in 1997? A) A Shakespeare museum. B) A statue of Shakespeare. C) A replica of the Globe Theatre. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A replica of the Globe Theatre. 52. What does Iago persuade Roderico of? A) Of the rapture of Desdemona. B) That he killed Othello. C) That he killed Montano. D) That he killed Casio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That he killed Casio. 53. Which literary movement gave base to William Shakespeare's plays? A) Oxford Movement. B) University Wits. C) Renaissance Movement. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) University Wits. 54. The Globe is in Stratford-upon-Avon A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 55. What reason does Lisandro give to Hernia for leaving her alone in the forest? A) He loves Helena. B) He was angry with her. C) He went to get her some food. D) He thought she was gone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He loves Helena. 56. What are the names of Shakespeare's comedies in which cynical humor is intertwined with tragic elements? A) Tragedies. B) Elizabethan plays. C) Romance. D) Dark comedies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dark comedies. 57. Romeo and Juliet is about A) Tragic power. B) Tragic greed. C) Tragic love. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragic love. 58. In which year was William Shakespeare born? A) 1566. B) 1564. C) 1562. D) 1560. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1564. 59. William Shakespeare was best known as? A) Music director. B) Writing songs. C) Writing plays such as Romeo and Juliet. D) Making movies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Writing plays such as Romeo and Juliet. 60. Who was Shakespeare? A) A writer and a historian. B) An actor and a historian. C) An actor and a writer. D) None of above. 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