This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To which age of English literature does William Shakespeare belong? A) Elizabethan Age. B) Romantic Age. C) Classical Age. D) Modern Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabethan Age. 2. Where did the rich people sit while they watched plays? A) In front of the stage. B) On the stage. C) In special loges. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the stage. 3. By Elizabethan era we mean: A) The period in which Elizabeth II's daughter reigned in England. B) The period around the end of 1500. C) The period in which Elizabeth Tudor's dynasty reigned between England and Holland. D) Between 1558 and 1603, when Elizabeth I reigned in England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Between 1558 and 1603, when Elizabeth I reigned in England. 4. Who often hired Shakespeare's company to come and perform at the royal court? A) Richard III. B) Henry VIII. C) Queen Elizabeth I. D) Francis Drake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen Elizabeth I. 5. What play did he write? A) Beauty and the beast. B) Hamlet. C) Alladin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 6. What does he do? A) Poet and play wright. B) Police and soldiers. C) Doctor and research. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet and play wright. 7. Did Romeo and Juliet get married? A) AND. B) NO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) AND. 8. Which theater company did Shakespeare join in London? A) Royal Shakespeare Company. B) Globe Theatre Company. C) Shakespearean Players. D) Lord Chamberlain's Men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Chamberlain's Men. 9. Who did William marry? A) Anne Hathaway. B) Alice hathaway. C) Amelia Hathaway. D) Addison Hathaway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anne Hathaway. 10. What is the name of William Shakespeare's wife? A) Maria hall. B) Anne hathaway. C) Mary corden. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anne hathaway. 11. What happens to Lady Macbeth before she dies? A) She is haunted by Duncan's ghost. B) He sees his sons killed in battle. C) He sees his children killed by Macbeth. D) She is plagued by attacks of sleepwalking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She is plagued by attacks of sleepwalking. 12. The plague forced Shakespeare to stop writing plays and start writing poems. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. What year did William Shakespeare die? A) 1642. B) 1616. C) 1599. D) 1623. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1616. 14. In which city did Romeo and Juliet live? A) Copenhagen. B) London. C) Verona. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verona. 15. How many signatures did William Shakespeare have? A) 1. B) 7. C) 3. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6. 16. What shape was the Globe theatre? A) Round. B) Rectangular. C) Square. D) Hexagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Round. 17. He was born and died on 23 of April A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. William Shakespeare is the author of A) -Alice in Wonderland. B) -King Lear. C) -Robinson Crusoe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -King Lear. 19. Wild uncontrolled excitement A) Courtesy. B) Frenzy. C) Intention. D) Malice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frenzy. 20. A biography is a piece of writing that ..... A) Is based on fake events in history. B) That an author makes up. C) That the author wrote about himself. D) That the author wrote about someone else. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That the author wrote about someone else. 21. When did William Shakespeare die? A) April 23, 1616. B) April 23, 1626. C) April 23, 1600. D) April 23, 1606. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) April 23, 1616. 22. The theater previously A) It was a genre always characterized by jokes and juggling. B) It represented above all episodes of sacred and religious history. C) It was very vulgar. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It represented above all episodes of sacred and religious history. 23. Shakespeare was an actor, a playwright and a ..... A) Scientist. B) Doctor. C) Businessman. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Businessman. 24. The first play performed in Shakespeare's theater was A) MacBeth. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Hamlet. D) You expect me to know this?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 25. Who finishes off Roderico so that the deception is not revealed? A) Casio. B) Othello. C) Graziano. D) Desdemona. E) Avoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Avoid. 26. How does the poet describe the duty-consciousness of the bees? A) Hardworking. B) Lazy. C) Relaxing. D) Not interested. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hardworking. 27. What is the 1st of these events in The Tragedy of Macbeth? A) Macbeth envisions the bloody dagger. B) Macbeth arranges the murder of Banquo. C) Witches prophesy that Macbeth will be king. D) Macbeth fights fiercely and improves his reputation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth fights fiercely and improves his reputation. 28. What type of plays did Shakespeare write? A) Only comedies. B) Only tragedies. C) Only history plays. D) Comedies, tragedies, and history plays. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comedies, tragedies, and history plays. 29. What Shakespeare DID NOT write? A) Novels. B) Sonnets. C) Plays. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Novels. 30. Why did Robert Greene often insult and humiliate Shakespeare? A) Because Shakespeare had no formal dramatic education. B) Because Shakespeare's plays were loved by Queen Elizabeth. C) Because Shakespeare was a co-owner of the theater. D) Because Shakespeare was a better actor than him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because Shakespeare had no formal dramatic education. 31. Brabancio accuses Othello of deceitfully seducing his daughter, but Othello tells his entire story and calls Desdemona to testify if she does not follow him of her will. A) Acto I. B) Acto II. C) Act V. D) Acto III. E) Acto IV. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acto I. 32. What Shakespeare play are we about to read? A) Hamlet. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Henry IV. D) A Dream Within a Dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romeo and Juliet. 33. Who writes about Shakespeare in a dismissive way, calling it "shake-scene" ? A) Robert Greene. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) Francis Bacon. D) Flight johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Greene. 34. Where is the play set? A) Rome. B) Venice. C) Verona. D) Bologna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verona. 35. Shakespeare wrote tragedies, comedies and sonnets. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 36. How many sonnets did the poet write? A) 130. B) 154. C) 200. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 154. 37. Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare is a ..... A) Comedy. B) Shoot comedy. C) Tragedy. D) Historical Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Historical Play. 38. Plays are separated into A) Acts and scenes. B) Chapters and pages. C) Parts and lines. D) Pages and sections. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acts and scenes. 39. Which of the following plays is not attributed to Shakespeare? A) Romeo and Juliet. B) Hamlet. C) Macbeth. D) The Canterbury Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Canterbury Tales. 40. 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' Identify the play A) Hamlet. B) King Lear. C) Merchant of Venice. D) As You Like It. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 41. How old is Julia? A) 15. B) 13. C) 14. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 13. 42. In the theaters of William Shakespeare's time, ..... A) Only tragedies were represented. B) Only the queen could attend. C) Women could not act, men represented all the characters and the special effects were created by musicians. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Women could not act, men represented all the characters and the special effects were created by musicians. 43. What is expressed in the Sestet? A) Resolution. B) Dilemma. C) Nothing important. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resolution. 44. What was the name of the acting company Shakespeare joined? A) London Men's Group. B) Blue Man Group. C) Broadway. D) Lord Chamberlain's Men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Chamberlain's Men. 45. What happened to theaters in the 1590s that led Shakespeare to write sonnets and long poems? A) They were closed due to the bubonic plague. B) They were converted into churches. C) They were banned by the government. D) They were destroyed in a fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were closed due to the bubonic plague. 46. Which one of the following is not a tragedy of William Shakespeare? A) Hamlet. B) Antony and Cleopatra. C) Macbeth. D) Twelfth Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Twelfth Night. 47. Romeo and Juliet is a A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) Drama. D) History. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 48. What is the 5 beat rhythm that Shakespeare used in many of his plays and sonnets called? A) Alliteration. B) Meter. C) Consonance. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic Pentameter. 49. William Shakespeare was born on ..... A) May 1616. B) April 23, 1564. C) April 1999. D) He is still alive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) April 23, 1564. 50. Why did William Shakespeare start writing poems? A) Because writing plays didn't make much money. B) Because the theaters closed because of The Plague. C) Because his plays were of poor quality and the public did not want to see them. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because the theaters closed because of The Plague. 51. What was Shakespeare's wife called? A) An is T Jin Sung. B) Dors Becker. C) Anne Hathaway. D) Sue Long. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anne Hathaway. 52. When was the First Folio published? A) 1603. B) 1594. C) 1613. D) 1623. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1623. 53. What is the name of the Prince of Verona? A) Probably. B) Escalus. C) Abraham. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Escalus. 54. Shakespeare is known as/remembered as a great ..... A) Actor. B) Poet and playwright. C) Husband. D) Citizen of London. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet and playwright. 55. How many plays did Shakespeare compose? A) 50. B) 37. C) 20. D) 65. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 37. 56. Shakespeare had four children. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 57. Protagonist. Sole heiress of the Capulet family A) Romeo. B) Juliet. C) Juliet's parents. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juliet. 58. Which is NOT a Shakespeare play? A) The Tempest. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Othello. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ophelia. 59. Which year was he born A) 1632. B) 1954. C) 2010. D) 1564. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1564. 60. What was Lord Chamberlain's Men? A) A family of men. B) A group of actors. C) A theater company. D) A bunch of kings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A theater company. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesWilliam Shakespeare Quiz 1William Shakespeare Quiz 2William Shakespeare Quiz 4William Shakespeare Quiz 5William Shakespeare Quiz 6William Shakespeare Quiz 7William Shakespeare Quiz 8William Shakespeare Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books