This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > William Shakespeare > William Shakespeare – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books William Shakespeare Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did Shakespeare's dad do? A) Builder. B) Poet. C) Made leather goods. D) Carpenter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Made leather goods. 2. Which of the following is not a reason Shylock gives for hating Antonio? A) Antonio has insulted Shylock in the past. B) Antonio is in love with Shylock's daughter, Jessica. C) Antonio hates Jews. D) Antonio lends money without interest, which damages Shylock's business. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antonio is in love with Shylock's daughter, Jessica. 3. INTRO:WELCOME TO UMAIZA AHMED'S QUIZ.Where was W. Shakespeare born? A) London. B) Birmingham. C) Stratford-upon-Avon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratford-upon-Avon. 4. How many Acts are in Shakespeare's plays? A) 3. B) 4. C) 6. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 5. Shakespeare wrote 154 of these types of poems. A) Cinquains. B) Sonnets. C) Comedies. D) Epics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnets. 6. Shakespeare died on? A) Mother's Day. B) His Birthday. C) Father's Day. D) His Anniversary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His Birthday. 7. What ended his wonderful career? A) He ran out of ideas to write about. B) He was killed by a rival actor. C) He got sick and died from the plague. D) His theater burned down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His theater burned down. 8. What is the theater William Shakespeare performs at? A) London playhouse. B) The Globe Theater. C) Roman Theater. D) Greek Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Globe Theater. 9. Who was one of Shakespeare's Competition? A) Robert ll. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) Katie. D) Elizabeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christopher Marlowe. 10. William Shakespeare was born ..... A) In Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. B) In Stradford-upon-Avon in 1564. C) In Stradford-upon-Avon in 1546. D) In Stratford-upon-Avon in 1546. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. 11. In which century was Shakespeare born? A) 15th. B) 17th. C) 14th. D) 16th. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 16th. 12. How many words did he invent? A) 1070. B) 1707. C) 1077. D) 1700. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1700. 13. What plague ravaged England during Shakespeare's early life? A) Cholera. B) Malaria. C) Black plague. D) Ebola plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Black plague. 14. Shakespeare lived in the ..... era. A) Golden. B) Renaissance. C) Industrial. D) Roaring. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renaissance. 15. What did Shakespeare leave on his gravesite? A) A skull. B) A curse. C) An empty grave. D) All of his 37 plays that he wrote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A curse. 16. When meeting new people in a training session, it's a good idea to ..... A) Break the ice. B) Make the ice. C) Melt the ice. D) Serve the ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Break the ice. 17. "Creeping like a snail" is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 18. Which option is correct? A) England. B) ENgland. C) England. D) EnglanD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) England. 19. How many times did Shakespeare marry? A) 2. B) 4. C) 1. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1. 20. A protagonist with a fatal flaw that eventually leads to his demise A) Soliloquy. B) Tragic hero. C) Aside. D) Chorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragic hero. 21. Personality trait of the main character in a tragedy that leads to his/her downfall A) Pun. B) Stupidity. C) Tragic Flaw. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragic Flaw. 22. How many feet are in a pentameter? A) 10. B) 4. C) 11. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 23. What do scholars call the seven years of Shakespeare's life that is unknown? A) Unknown Years. B) Seven Years. C) Lost Years. D) Long Years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lost Years. 24. Which character is the most tragic in Shakespeare's plays? A) Hamlet. B) Ophelia. C) Laertes. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ophelia. 25. Which is the Brick Foundation? A) 11. B) 12. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12. 26. Why do we celebrate Book's day on April 23? A) Because Shakespeare died on April 23 of 1616 almost the same date as Miguel de Cervantes. B) Because the goverment decided it. C) Because we buy books ans roses this day. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because Shakespeare died on April 23 of 1616 almost the same date as Miguel de Cervantes. 27. Identify part number 1. A) Flag. B) The Heavens. C) Support Pillars. D) Gallery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flag. 28. Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon on ..... at the age of 52. A) 26 April 1654. B) 23 April 1616. C) 23 April 1654. D) 26 April 1616. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 23 April 1616. 29. Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" come from? A) Cymbeline. B) Hamlet. C) Titus Andronicus. D) Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 30. How many books did William Shakespeare write A) 21. B) 18. C) 19. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 19. 31. Which of these words did NOT come from Shakespeare A) Manager. B) Negotiate. C) Revenue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Revenue. 32. The poet compares the world to A) A playground. B) A story book. C) A film. D) A stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A stage. 33. Gertrude was ..... A) King Lear's daughter. B) Shakespeare's daughter. C) Hamlet's mother. D) Hamlet's aunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet's mother. 34. Shakespeare was born in this town: A) Windsor. B) Cardiff. C) Bath. D) Stratford-upon-Avon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stratford-upon-Avon. 35. Looking at the character of Shylock, what is the prevalent theme of The Merchant of Venice? A) Love is more important than money. B) Reality and idealism. C) Mercy. D) Prejudice and intolerance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prejudice and intolerance. 36. Hamlet was ..... A) Ophelia's brother. B) A son of the British King. C) The Prince of Denmark. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Prince of Denmark. 37. Prince Hamlet avenge his father's murder by ..... A) Killing Claudius. B) Killing Laertes. C) Killing Polonius. D) Committing suicide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Killing Claudius. 38. The poem, "The Seven Ages of Man" , is written by A) William Shakespeare. B) Alfred Lord Tennesy. C) William Golding. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Shakespeare. 39. What term is given to 'a long speech in which a character who is onstage ALONE expresses his or her thoughts aloud. A) Dialogue. B) Soliloquy. C) Monologue. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aside. 40. If one exhibited the plague's symptoms, what percentage chance did he/she have of SURVIVAL? A) 50%. B) 70%. C) 15%. D) 30%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 30%. 41. What is the name of the town in Romeo & Juliet? A) Verona. B) Rome. C) Stratford-Upon-Avon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verona. 42. Most theaters did not have curtains or scenery, so the audience had to rely on ..... A) The written books. B) Props and sound effects. C) Weapons. D) Bringing their own. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Props and sound effects. 43. Who was William's Father A) Albert Shakespeare. B) James Shakespeare. C) John Shakespeare. D) Peter Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Shakespeare. 44. Six months after the wedding, Shakespeare's daughter ..... was born. Two years later Anne gave birth to twins:..... A) Susanna / Hamnet and Judith. B) Judith/ Hamnet and Susanna. C) Susanna / Macbeth and Judith. D) Judith / Macbeth and Susanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Susanna / Hamnet and Judith. 45. What does "damasked" mean? A) Separated by color. B) A greyish color. C) One solid color. D) Taking off a mask. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Separated by color. 46. The poem compares "exit" to A) Life. B) Birth. C) Death. D) Doors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Death. 47. A fun fact about Shakespeare is that he died on the same day of his A) Queen's death. B) Anniversary. C) Birthday. D) Son's death. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birthday. 48. What was the cause of William Shakespeare's death? A) Drowning. B) Being captured by pirates. C) The Black plague. D) The actual cause of his death is unknown. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The actual cause of his death is unknown. 49. Why did Shakespeare go to the pubs (bars) to write his plays? A) He liked to drink while he wrote. B) He had a part time job there. C) His wife kicked him out. D) There was free light to see by at a pub. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There was free light to see by at a pub. 50. In which city did Shakespeare build his theatre? A) Venice. B) Paris. C) London. D) Madrid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London. 51. Seven Ages Of Men is taken from ..... As you like it. A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) Tragicomedy. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comedy. 52. Which of the following ladies was the Queen during Shakespeare's life? A) Catherine. B) Mary I. C) Elizabeth II. D) Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabeth I. 53. Gravediggers unearth the ..... A) Skull of jester Yorick. B) Skull of Ophelia. C) Dead body of Hamlet. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skull of jester Yorick. 54. Jaques compares all men and women with players in a A) Stage production. B) Child's game. C) Card game. D) Game of polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage production. 55. How old was Shakespeare when he married Anne Hathaway? A) 20. B) 13. C) 32. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 18. 56. In which year did William Shakespeare die A) 1615. B) 1617. C) 1614. D) 1616. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1616. 57. Which of the following is NOT a theme of the sonnet? A) Love someone, despite his/her flaws. B) Love over money. C) True love isn't exclusive to physical appearance. D) Perfection is impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love over money. 58. Which of the following words is Shakespeare credited with creating? A) Corona. B) Teacher. C) Flabbergasted. D) Puke. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Puke. 59. Where would Shakespeare probable have spent time writing other than his home because of the free light? A) Outside. B) McDonalds. C) The Globe Theater. D) A Pub. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Pub. 60. A. The name of Othello's wife was ..... A) A. Ophelia. B) A.Desdemona. C) C. Juliet. D) Anna. 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