This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who played female roles in the original production of Shakespeare's plays? A) Women. B) Men and Women. C) Young Boys and Men. D) Young ladies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Young Boys and Men. 2. What does Prospero command Ariel to do before setting him free? A) Put on the garments of a Duke. B) Fetch the Boatswain and mariners. C) Drown his magic book. D) Release Alonso and his companions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drown his magic book. 3. Three themes William Shakespeare wrote about are ..... , ..... , and ..... A) Tragedy, Comedy and History. B) Comedy, Love and Suspense. C) Suspense, Horror, and Mystery. D) History, Horror, and Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragedy, Comedy and History. 4. What was William Shakespeare's father's profession? A) Carpenter. B) Baker. C) Blacksmith. D) Glove maker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glove maker. 5. What language did Shakespeare write in? A) Early Modern English. B) Veteran English. C) Old English. D) Middle English. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Early Modern English. 6. All the characters were played by men and ..... A) Women. B) Girls. C) Boys. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boys. 7. The people who stood in front of the stage to watch a play were called ..... A) Stagehands. B) Moshers. C) Groundlings. D) Cheapskates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Groundlings. 8. Who did Shakespeare marry? A) Georgia Gregory. B) Anne Hardaway. C) Sherry Vension. D) Anne Hathaway. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anne Hathaway. 9. What was one of the reasons why city officials didn't like the theaters? A) Too many people. B) Violence. C) The plague. D) Too noisy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The plague. 10. Mark the alternative that contains the characteristics of Macbeth. A) Brave-angry-loyal-fickle. B) Doubtful-sensitive-generous-candid. C) Evil-trusting-helpful-grateful. D) Determined-evil-suspicious-ambitious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Determined-evil-suspicious-ambitious. 11. Shakespeare lived in A) The 1300s. B) The 1500s. C) The 1400s. D) The 1600s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 1500s. 12. Women were not allowed to act in the theatre A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. What were the names of Shakespeare's children? A) Hamnet, Susie, Jude. B) Hamlet, Anne, Julia. C) Hamnet, Edith, Joan. D) Hamnet, Susanna, Judith. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamnet, Susanna, Judith. 14. He could buy the largest house in London. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. In this scene we will meet Julieta's mother, a woman who wants to try to convince her daughter to marry Paris. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 16. What did Shakespeare write with? A) Pen. B) Pencil. C) Quill. D) Computer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quill. 17. How many plays and other works were written by Shakespeare? A) 37 plays and 154 works that we know of. B) 33 plays and 122 works that we know of. C) 25 plays and 210 works that we know of. D) 49 plays and 179 works that we know of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 37 plays and 154 works that we know of. 18. Which stage of life is described as mewling and puking in the nurse's arms? A) Soldier. B) Schoolboy. C) Infant. D) Lover. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Infant. 19. What was one of the main components audiences, as well as critics, wanted to see in plays? A) Marriage. B) Courtship. C) Power. D) Bloodshed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bloodshed. 20. According to Shakespeare, "All The World is a A) Performance. B) Globe. C) Earth. D) Stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage. 21. Tragedy based on a story by Saxo Grammaticus: A) The Taming of the Shrew. B) Macbeth. C) Romeo and Juliet. D) Hamlet. E) Othello. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet. 22. Which house is Julieta from? A) Montesco. B) Capulet. C) None. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capulet. 23. When did Shakespeare get married? A) When he was 18. B) When he was ill. C) When he was 16. D) When he was having baby. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When he was 18. 24. From which of Shakespeare's very renowned plays, has this quote been taken?"'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.' A) Romeo and Juliet. B) Much Ado About Nothing. C) Henry V. D) As You Like It. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) As You Like It. 25. The petty school A) Was the name of the university. B) Was a school for teenagers. C) Was a school for younger children. D) Was a school for older children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was a school for younger children. 26. Who was the most popular playwright in Shakespeare's time? A) Christopher Marlowe. B) John Webster. C) Phillip Henslowe. D) Ben Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christopher Marlowe. 27. In what centuries did Shakespeare live? A) 19th-20th centuries (1800s-1900s). B) 16th-17th centuries (1500s-1600s). C) He wasn't real, so he never truly lived. D) 12th-13th centuries (1100s-1200s). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 16th-17th centuries (1500s-1600s). 28. Shakespeare was an actor, a playwright, a poet, and a ..... A) Mental play (editor). B) Carpenter. C) Scientist. D) Doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mental play (editor). 29. Why do we have to guess Shakespeare's birthday? A) The records office where his birth certificate was located burned down . B) He was very secretive. C) Not much was written about his life. D) Written records didn't exist at this time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not much was written about his life. 30. Shakespeare's first play was called Romeo and Juliet. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 31. Which theatre did Shakespeare help build? A) The Blackfriar Theatre. B) The Bard Theatre. C) The Globe Theatre . D) The Burbage Theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Globe Theatre . 32. Which of the following is a main topic of the play? A) Love. B) Family. C) Death. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love. 33. Where were Shakespeare's plays produced? A) The National Theatre. B) The West End Theater. C) The Royal Opera House. D) The Globe Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Globe Theater. 34. What was William Shakespeare's birth year? A) 1564. B) 1616. C) 1617. D) 1563. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1564. 35. At what age, William Shakespeare got married? A) 10. B) 18. C) 40. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 18. 36. What was Shakespeare's first name? A) William. B) Harry. C) Hamlet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William. 37. What is the significance of the storm on the heath in "King Lear" ? A) It symbolizes the turmoil in Lear's mind. B) It marks the beginning of Cordelia's return. C) It represents the wrath of the gods. D) It signals the start of a war between France and Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It symbolizes the turmoil in Lear's mind. 38. Shakespearean actors were always ..... A) Male. B) Well prepared. C) Underpaid. D) On time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Male. 39. Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well. A) William. B) Taylor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taylor. 40. What was his wife's name? A) Queen Elizabeth. B) Anne Hathaway. C) Juliet Hathaway. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anne Hathaway. 41. He has been credited with popularizing some of the most common expressions in the english language, such as "foregone conclusion, " "heart of gold, " and "love is blind." A) Change english to English. B) Delete all of the quotation marks. C) Change popularizing to popularising. D) Make no change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Change english to English. 42. How many plays did William Shakespeare write? A) 30. B) 37. C) 50. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 37. 43. Shakespeare was married: A) To Anne Hathaway. B) To Mary Hathaway. C) To Emily Hathaway. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To Anne Hathaway. 44. How old was Shakespeare when he got married? A) 18. B) 19. C) 20. D) 17. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 19. 45. In 1582 he married ..... A) Anne Hathaway. B) Julie Brown. C) Gladys Hightower. D) Britney Spears. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anne Hathaway. 46. The story of Romeo & Juliet is an extremely old one that was originally written in a(n) ..... novel by Bandello. A) French. B) German. C) Spanish. D) Italian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Italian. 47. Juliet's family is A) The Montagues. B) The Capulets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Capulets. 48. Which is a question Hamlet asks in his To be or not to be soliloquy in Act III, Scene 1, lines 57-91? A) Is it wiser to accept suffering or to fight its causes and end it?. B) Is the passing of time good or bad for the human condition?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is it wiser to accept suffering or to fight its causes and end it?. 49. Obras de w.shakespeare son: A) Hamlet and the Divine Comedy. B) Romeo and Juliet and the divine comedy. C) Hamlet-Romeo and Juliet. D) Hamlet-. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet-Romeo and Juliet. 50. -How old were you when you died? A) 50 years. B) 45 years. C) 52 years. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 52 years. 51. What period did William Shakespeare live in? A) Elizabethan Period. B) Neoclassical period. C) Baroque Period. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabethan Period. 52. What is Shakespeare's mother's name? A) Elizabeth Taylor. B) Marie Curie. C) Anna is Karenina. D) Mary Arden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mary Arden. 53. Poet John Keats kept this very item from Shakespeare near his desk, hoping it would help his creativity fly. A) SureMask. B) Ashes in an urn. C) On the ground. D) Bust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bust. 54. Why does the plan to fake Juliet's death fail? A) Because Benvolio doesn't keep the secret. B) Because Friar Lorenzo cannot lie and tells the truth. C) Because Friar Lorenzo's emissary cannot leave Verona. D) Because Romeo is very impatient and comes ahead of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because Friar Lorenzo's emissary cannot leave Verona. 55. Shakespeare's twins were named A) Romeo and Juliet. B) Judith and Hamnet. C) Hamlet and Judith. D) John and Mary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Judith and Hamnet. 56. What are the anatopisms for which Shakespeare was accused? A) A misunderstanding of history. B) Misunderstanding of dramaturgy. C) A misunderstanding of geography. D) Misunderstanding literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A misunderstanding of geography. 57. How does the tone of the poem shift? A) From critical to genuine. B) From abusive to loving. C) From judgemental to loving. D) From loving to obsessive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From critical to genuine. 58. Which of these Latin phrases did he make famous? A) "I think, therefore I am". B) "I came, I saw, I conquered". C) "And you, Brute?". D) "Carpe Diem". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "And you, Brute?". 59. William Shakespeare era A) English, from Stratford Upon Avon. B) Dutch, but moved to London as a child. C) English by birth, but his parents were Scottish. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English, from Stratford Upon Avon. 60. Who among the following people is NOT a part of William Shakespeare's family? A) Anne Hathaway (wife). B) Judith and Hamnet (his twins). C) Susanna (eldest daughter). D) Hamlet (eldest son). 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