This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > William 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. Where did Shakespeare get educated A) King's School, Stratford. B) Exeter Cathedral School. C) Wolverhampton Grammar School. D) Oxford University. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King's School, Stratford. 2. In which two centuries did William live? A) 19th and 20th. B) 16th and 17th. C) 15th and 16th. D) 17th and 18th. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 16th and 17th. 3. How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare? A) 0. B) 2. C) 4. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 4. Anne Hathaway was ..... A) Shakespeare's wife. B) An actress in his company. C) The Queen of England. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shakespeare's wife. 5. Who played the young girl roles? A) Adult males. B) Young males. C) Young females. D) Adult females. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Young males. 6. Which of the following is not a reason why England was an exciting place? A) Elizabeth was queen. B) Shakespeare lived there. C) English ships ruled the seas. D) Explorers where claiming land as far as America and the Far East. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespeare lived there. 7. Who was the Queen of England from 1558-1603? A) Elizabeth. B) Isabella. C) Rylie. D) Tiffany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth. 8. Shakespeare's work today ..... is mainly only used for educational purposes. A) Has declined in popularity since he was alive. B) Is mainly only used for educational purposes. C) Continues to influence entertainment and language. D) Has been altered beyond recognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Continues to influence entertainment and language. 9. What is a groundling? A) Audience members who had to stand at the Globe. B) People who got the worst seats at the Globe. C) Actors who were bad and were heckled at the Globe. D) Rich people who got to sit in seats at the Globe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Audience members who had to stand at the Globe. 10. How many short poems did Shakespeare write and what were they called? A) 370, Short Poems. B) 154, Sonnets. C) 376, Sonnet. D) 400, Shorts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 154, Sonnets. 11. What is the name of the London theatre that Shakespeare is commonly associated with? A) The Globe. B) The World's End. C) The Orb. D) The Curtain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Globe. 12. The stories are timeless because ..... A) The stories are exciting and relevant today. B) His plays are dramatic. C) Full of conflict and capture the essence of human conflict. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 13. Shakespeare helped to build this theatre and staged most of his plays there. A) The Whitefriar. B) The Globe. C) The Swan. D) The Rose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Globe. 14. The theatre ..... Shakespeare plays were acted out was called The Globe Theatre. A) Where. B) When. C) Who. D) Which. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where. 15. What happened to his popularity in 400 years after his death? A) He became less popular. B) People forgot him. C) He became more popular. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He became more popular. 16. How many children did you have? A) 2. B) 3. C) 8. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 17. Around what age do they believe Shakespeare was withdrawn from school? A) 13. B) 14. C) 12. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14. 18. Who is the sonnet about? A) The young man. B) The dark young man. C) The dark favored woman. D) The young woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The dark favored woman. 19. What was the worst thing that ever happened to Shakespeare? A) His wife left him. B) His plays were not well liked during his lifetime. C) His theater went bankrupt. D) His son died at a young age. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His son died at a young age. 20. Romeo and Juliet is A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) Historic play. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 21. How many works did William Shakespeare write? A) William Shakespeare wrote 31 works. B) William Shakespeare wrote 43 works. C) William Shakespeare wrote 37 works. D) William Shakespeare wrote 28 works. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare wrote 37 works. 22. A division of an act into smaller parts A) Soliloquy. B) Comedy. C) Dialogue. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scene. 23. In the summer 1596, what personal disaster struck Shakespeare's life? A) His wife Anne died. B) The governor closed the playhouses. C) The Globe was destroyed. D) His son Hamnet died. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His son Hamnet died. 24. In what year was Shakespeare born? A) 1592. B) 1616. C) 1558. D) 1564. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1564. 25. Shakespeare was born on what holiday? A) Valentine's Day. B) Easter. C) Saint George's Day. D) Saint Patrick's Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saint George's Day. 26. Which one of the following terms is often called for the England's national poet, William Shakespeare? A) Bard of London. B) Master Dramatist. C) Bard of Avon. D) Supreme Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bard of Avon. 27. What year did shakespeae get married? A) 1606. B) 1582. C) 1599. D) 1601. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1582. 28. As a young lover, according to the poet, man A) Learns to dance. B) Composes ballads for his beloved. C) Goes hunting in the forest. D) Does exercises to build his muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Composes ballads for his beloved. 29. The last 'part' of a sonnet contains ..... lines A) 1. B) 2. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 30. Which play conveys to the audience NOT to marry an older woman? (The title will be on the screen!) A) Macbeth. B) Hamlet. C) King Lear. D) Twelfth Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Twelfth Night. 31. Which sentence is correct? A) My dog is called harley. B) My dog is called Harley. C) My dog is called Harley. D) My dog is harley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My dog is called Harley. 32. A Shakespeare sonnet has ..... syllables in each line. A) 10. B) 8. C) 14. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 33. The rhyme scheme in this stanza is ..... "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red, than her lips red:If snow be white, why then her breasts be dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. A) AABB. B) ABABA. C) ABAB. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ABAB. 34. Shakespeare not only wrote most of his life, he also ..... A) Was an author. B) Was a professional singer. C) Was a doctor. D) Was an actor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was an actor. 35. Unrhymed iambic pentameter = A) Dialogue. B) Pros. C) Blank Verse. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blank Verse. 36. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from? A) King Lear. B) As You Like It. C) The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII. D) The Life and Death of King John. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Lear. 37. During his school days, Shakespeare translated what language to English? A) Greek. B) French. C) Italian. D) Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Latin. 38. Was William Shakespeare graduated at university? A) No. B) Yes, but he didn't finish the career. C) Yes. D) Maybe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 39. From what character flaw does Bassanio believe Gratiano suffers? A) A lack of depth. B) Mean-spiritedness. C) Vanity. D) Stinginess. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A lack of depth. 40. The group of four plays known as the "major tetralogy" is: A) King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III. B) Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V. C) Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI. D) 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V. 41. What theater was Shakespeare's plays performed in? A) The World. B) The Globe. C) The Earth. D) The Universe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Globe. 42. What was the name of the theater Shakespeare part owned in London? A) Round theater. B) Globe theater. C) Penniwick theater. D) Smallhouse theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Globe theater. 43. Where did Romeo and Juliet live? A) Stratford-Upon-Avon. B) Denmark. C) Verona. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verona. 44. The man who is "full of wise saws" is the A) Shrinking man. B) Justice. C) Old man. D) Soldier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Justice. 45. I don't understand his explanation. It's all ..... to me! A) Chinese. B) Greek. C) Arab. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greek. 46. For almost twenty years with theLord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare was regular dramatist, producing ..... A) On avarage two plays a year. B) On average two plays a year. C) On average five plays a year. D) On avarage three plays a year. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On average two plays a year. 47. In 1603 Shakespeare's acting company, The Lord Chamberlain's Men, became the King's Men. Which king was their patron? A) James I. B) Henry VIII. C) Edward III. D) George III. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James I. 48. Which is the most famous poem by William Shakespeare A) Sonnet 20. B) Sonnet 55. C) Sonnet 29. D) Sonnet 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet 18. 49. The extended metaphor in "The Seven Ages of Man" compares a A) Schoolboy and a snail. B) Sighing lover and a furnace. C) Person's life and a play. D) Soldier and leopard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person's life and a play. 50. Who is Juliet's father? A) Tybalt. B) Lord Capulet. C) Lady Capulet. D) Juliet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord Capulet. 51. Of 25The caskets that Portia's suitors must pick from are made of what materials? A) Bone, porcelain, clay. B) Marble, stone, brick. C) Gold, silver, lead. D) Teak, mahogany, pine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gold, silver, lead. 52. The last two lines of a sonnet contain the main message of the poem. These last two lines are called A) An iamb. B) Rhyme. C) A couplet. D) A stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A couplet. 53. Who was Shakespeare married to? A) Mary Adren. B) Ann Hathaway. C) Ann Marie. D) Millie Yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ann Hathaway. 54. Who did he marry and when did he marry her? A) Mary Shakespeare, April 23, 1564. B) Anne Hathaway, November 28, 1582. C) William Shakespeare, April 26, 1564. D) The person of his dreams, February 29, 2020. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anne Hathaway, November 28, 1582. 55. According to Church records when Shakespeare died? A) On April 13, 1616. B) On January 11, 1616. C) On May 15, 1616. D) On April 25, 1616. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On April 25, 1616. 56. How many plays did Shakespeare produce while in London? A) 38. B) 36. C) 37. D) 39. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 37. 57. How many plays and sonnets did Shakespeare write? A) 52 plays and 18 sonnets. B) 37 plays and 154 sonnets. C) 25 plays and 37 sonnets. D) We don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 37 plays and 154 sonnets. 58. What word in our school title was invented by Shakespeare? A) Little. B) Rock. C) Academy. D) Christian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Academy. 59. During his lifetime, Shakespeare wrote approximately a total of .....? A) 28 plays and 144 sonnets. B) 38 plays and 154 sonnets. C) 48 plays and 164 sonnets. D) 48 plays and 154 sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 38 plays and 154 sonnets. 60. How did people know when a play was being performed? A) They would fly a flag above the theater. B) Everyone would get a call that morning. C) A banner would fly in the sky. D) An announcement came on the radio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They would fly a flag above the theater. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesWilliam Shakespeare Quiz 1William Shakespeare Quiz 2William Shakespeare Quiz 4William Shakespeare Quiz 5William Shakespeare Quiz 6William Shakespeare Quiz 7 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books