This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > William Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the ruler of England during most of Shakespeare's time? A) James II. B) Elizabeth II. C) James I. D) Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabeth I. 2. How many people could fit into The Globe Theatre? A) 5000. B) 200. C) 3000. D) 1000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3000. 3. What type of allusion is this? A) Biblical. B) Historical. C) Mythological. D) Literary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biblical. 4. What of the following plays did Shakespeare not write? A) No Exit. B) Julius Caesar. C) The Taming of the Shrew. D) Antony and Cleopatra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No Exit. 5. Before being a playwright, Shakespeare was first a(n) A) Actor. B) Carpenter. C) Blacksmith. D) Sailor in the merchant marine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Actor. 6. Shakespeare himself played what role in Hamlet? A) The ghost. B) King Claudius. C) No one. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ghost. 7. Which of the following is not one if Shakespeare's plays? A) Riley and Josie. B) Hamlet. C) Twelfth Night. D) Julius Caesar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Riley and Josie. 8. In Shakespeare's life, the period from 1585-1592 was known as what? A) Shakespeare WORLD tour!. B) The college years. C) Adolesence. D) The lost years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The lost years. 9. The first 'part' of a sonnet contains ..... lines. A) 1. B) 2. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 10. What gender is the play " Romeo and Juliet" ? A) Fantasy. B) Historical Non-Fiction. C) Tragic Drama. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragic Drama. 11. What do we use at the start of a sentence? A) Capital letters. B) Exclamation mark. C) Full stops. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Capital letters. 12. Where was Shakespeare buried A) Community Church. B) Fellowship Church. C) Holy Trinity Church. D) First Baptist Church. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Holy Trinity Church. 13. The first edition of Shakespeare's collected works appeared ....., it was the so called First Folio. A) In 1603. B) In 1653. C) In 1623. D) In 1616. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In 1623. 14. At what age of did William Shakespeare marry Anne Hathaway? A) 19. B) 23. C) 18. D) 22. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 18. 15. Which monarch was on the throne when he was born? A) George. B) Elizabeth I. C) Henry VIII. D) William. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth I. 16. What age did William Shakespeare son die? A) 11. B) 18. C) 23. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 11. 17. The theatre had ..... A) 5 rows of balkonies. B) 3 rows of balkonies. C) Only a courtyard. D) 3.000 seats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3 rows of balkonies. 18. Who was William Shakespeare's wife? A) Judith Quiney. B) Susanna. C) Mary Hathaway. D) Anne Hathaway. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anne Hathaway. 19. Who of his children died? A) Judith. B) Hamnet. C) Susan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamnet. 20. Which of these Shakespeare's plays is a tragedy story? A) A Midsummer Night's Dream. B) The Merchant of Venice. C) Hamlet. D) As You Like It. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 21. The infant is described as "mewling and puking" . What does this mean? A) Crying and spitting up. B) Laughing and smiling. C) Fussy and unhappy. D) Sleeping and content. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crying and spitting up. 22. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth were Shakespeare's ..... written between 1601 and 1608 A) Histories. B) Tragedies. C) Comedies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedies. 23. How many kids did William Shakespeare have A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 24. In the play, "The Merchant of Venice" , who is the main character? A) Antonio. B) Shylock. C) Bassanio. D) Portia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antonio. 25. In Sonnet 18, the "eye of heaven" is an example of A) Smilie. B) Paradox. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 26. In which English city was he born? A) London. B) Stratford-Upon-Avon. C) Liverpool. D) Manchester. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratford-Upon-Avon. 27. Where did William die? A) London. B) Stratford Upon Avon. C) Cambridge. D) Oxford. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratford Upon Avon. 28. What is the age difference between Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway? A) 10 years. B) 8 months. C) 8 years. D) There is no difference; they are the same age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8 years. 29. What term is given to 'a long, uninterrupted speech given by a character while others remain on stage? ' A) Dialogue. B) Soliloquy. C) Monologue. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monologue. 30. A play is another name for what? A) Book. B) Drama. C) Poem. D) Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drama. 31. What is William Shakespeare knows as? A) KIng of Plays. B) Bard of Avon. C) Father of Plays. D) Genius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bard of Avon. 32. According to the speaker, the "players" in these seven acts of life A) Can choose whether or not to be in one of the acts. B) Must wear glasses and stockings. C) Enter as infants and exit as aged people. D) Enter as adults and exit as school children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enter as infants and exit as aged people. 33. How many older siblings did Shakespeare have until they passed away? A) 6. B) 1. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 34. Where did Shakespeare obtain his education? A) King Edward Institution for English and Literature Studies. B) King Edward IV School. C) Stratford Grammar School. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Edward IV School. 35. Who performed the more mature female roles? A) Young males. B) Adult females. C) Adult males. D) Young females. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adult males. 36. When Shakespeare came on the scene, who was London's most popular playwright? A) Queen Elizabeth. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) Geoffrey Rush. D) Nick Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christopher Marlowe. 37. "The Seven Ages of Man" describe A) Stories that start in the middle and then go back in time. B) Acts in a play, ending with a conclusion. C) A popular, old English team sport related to soccer. D) Human life from infancy to old age. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human life from infancy to old age. 38. Why didn't Shakespeare attend university? A) His father's troubles may have forced him to withdraw William from school. B) He made poor grades and could not get accepted. C) He became rich in the merchant trade. D) He was disgusted with higher education. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His father's troubles may have forced him to withdraw William from school. 39. Shakespeare says his 'fair youth' will live on forever in his "eternal lines." What does this mean? A) People will read about him in his poems. B) He will die and go to heaven. C) He will fall out of line. D) People will know him because of his beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People will read about him in his poems. 40. What city was Shakespeare born in and retired in? A) Stratford upon Avon. B) England. C) Penniwick. D) Charles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stratford upon Avon. 41. What are the early years of Shakespeare's life commonly referred to as? A) The Golden Age. B) The Lost Years. C) The Edge of GLory. D) The COVID19 Outbreak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Lost Years. 42. William Shakespeare lived in the ..... centuries. A) 15th and 16th. B) 14th and 15th. C) 16th and 17th. D) 17th and 18th. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 16th and 17th. 43. Who sat in the covered section of the theater? A) Middle class. B) Royalty. C) Wealthy. D) Poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wealthy. 44. When he was 18, Shakespeare married ....., who was 26 A) Anne Hathaway. B) Mary Hathway. C) Anne Hathway. D) Mary Hathaway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anne Hathaway. 45. Which Shakespeare play is The Lion King based on? A) Macbeth. B) Hamlet. C) Othello. D) King Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 46. What Genre did Shakespeare mainly use in his writing A) Tragedy. B) Comedy. C) Adventure. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragedy. 47. Shakespeare's parents were ..... Shakespeare-respectable, middle-class parents. A) Jack and Anne. B) John and Anne. C) John and Mary. D) Jack and Mary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John and Mary. 48. Who remains alive at the end of "Hamlet" ? A) Hamlet. B) Hamlet's mother. C) Ophelia. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of them. 49. The new Globe Theatre opened in ....., one street away from where the original would have stood. A) 1797. B) 1808. C) 1909. D) 1997. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1997. 50. Name two childhood friends of Prince Hamlet. A) Marcellus and Reynaldo. B) Claudius and Polonius. C) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. D) Ophelia and Laertes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. 51. Which of the following indicates a shift in the tone? *It's always found in the 3rd quatrain.* A) Yet. B) So. C) However. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yet. 52. What is the setting of the first scene when the play begins? A) The garden of the castle. B) The bedchamber of Gertrude. C) A platform before the castle. D) In the graveyard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A platform before the castle. 53. Which river is associated with Shakespeare's birth place? A) The Thames. B) The Tyburn. C) The Seven. D) The Avon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Avon. 54. Which one of shakespears kids die A) Judith. B) Hamnet. C) Susanna. D) Crystall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamnet. 55. The line "To be or not to be" comes from which play? A) Twelfth Night. B) Macbeth. C) Hamlet. D) A Midsummer Night's dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 56. Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night are examples of ..... A) Tragedies. B) Comedies. C) Tragicomedies. D) Histories. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comedies. 57. Who was crowned King? A) King George II. B) King Louis XI. C) King James I. D) King Noah. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King James I. 58. At the end of the sonnet how does Shakespeare feel about the woman? A) He thinks she is very ugly and hates her. B) He loves her and states their love is rare and unique. C) He thinks she is fake, compared to the other women. D) He thinks that her beauty is heavenly and rare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He loves her and states their love is rare and unique. 59. The stage in a man's life that followers the lover is the A) Schoolboy. B) Old man. C) Soldier. D) Infant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soldier. 60. A character who opposes the protagonist is the: A) Buffoon. B) Antagonist. C) Tragic Hero. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesWilliam Shakespeare Quiz 1William Shakespeare Quiz 2William Shakespeare Quiz 3William Shakespeare Quiz 5William Shakespeare Quiz 6William Shakespeare Quiz 7 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books