This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Play By Sakespear – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Play By Sakespear Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the author of "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" ? A) Christopher Marlow. B) William Shakespeare. C) Philip Sidney. D) The Earl of Oxford. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christopher Marlow. 2. In the play, "Henry V, " who is the daughter of the King of France? A) Catherine. B) Alice. C) The Hostess. D) Nim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catherine. 3. Shakespeare often employed which of the following stylistic forms in his dramas? A) Blank verse. B) Old English. C) Authorial narration. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 4. Who is King of Scotland at the start of the play, "Macbeth" ? A) Macbeth. B) Banquo. C) Duncan. D) Donalbain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duncan. 5. In the play, "Macbeth, " how does Macbeth kill Duncan? A) He shoots him. B) He strangles him. C) He stabs him. D) He beheads him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He stabs him. 6. In the play, "Richard III, " who speaks of "the winter of our discontent" (I.i.1)? A) Richmond. B) Queen Elizabeth. C) Richard III. D) The princes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Richard III. 7. For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT: A) Greek mythology. B) European history. C) Early scientific studies. D) The works of earlier poets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The works of earlier poets. 8. Where does the sonnet form originate from? A) England. B) Spain. C) France. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Italy. 9. Hamlet is considered to be what kind of play? A) Comedy. B) History. C) Tragedy. D) Epic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 10. At the end of the play "Richard III, " what happens to Richard? A) He is killed. B) He is arrested. C) He is crowned king. D) He was sent into exile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is killed. 11. In the play, "Henry V, " who is the Queen of France? A) Queen Isabel. B) Queen Nim. C) Queen Alice. D) Queen Montjoy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Queen Isabel. 12. Who directly challenges Richard for the throne in the play, "Richard III" ? A) Tyrell. B) King Edward IV. C) Queen Elizabeth. D) The Earl of Richmond. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Earl of Richmond. 13. What does the term "renaissance" mean? A) Death. B) Theater. C) Drama. D) Rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rebirth. 14. In verse, "meter" refers to which of the following? A) The length of a written line. B) The measured pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. C) The height of the stage. D) The number of words in a line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The measured pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. 15. In the play, "Twelfth Night, " what does Viola refer to herself as when she disguises herself as a man? A) Orsino. B) Sir Toby. C) Antonio. D) Cesario. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cesario. 16. What type of play is "Richard III" ? A) Tragedy. B) History. C) Comedy. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) History. 17. In "Hamlet, " which character is left alive at the end of the play? A) Hamlet. B) Claudius. C) Horatio. D) Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horatio. 18. At the end of the play, "Twelfth Night, " who is discovered to have been secretly married? A) Viola and Orsino. B) Sir Toby and Maria. C) Malvio and Maria. D) Viola and Sir Toby. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Toby and Maria. 19. In the play, "Henry V, " what country does Henry wish to conquer? A) England. B) Spain. C) France. D) Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) France. 20. In the play "Richard III, " where does Richard imprison the young princes? A) In a tower. B) In a pit. C) In a prison. D) In another country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a tower. Next →Related QuizzesPlay By Sakespear Quiz 2Play By Sakespear Quiz 3American Drama QuizAmerican English QuizAmerican Poetry QuizBeowulf QuizChaucer'S Canterbury Tales QuizChildren'S Literature QuizDr Faustus By Christopher Marlowe QuizDrama QuizFiction Short Story Literature QuizFrankenstein Mary Shelley QuizGothic Fiction QuizHamlet QuizHistorical Fiction QuizLiterary Journalism QuizMacbeth QuizMagical Realism QuizMetaphysical Poetry QuizMilton'S Paradise Lost QuizNon Fictional Prose QuizParadise Lost John Milton QuizPoetry Terms QuizPoetry QuizProsody QuizRomantic Poetry QuizShakespeare'S Sonnets QuizShakespearean Drama QuizShakespearean Tragedy QuizThe Awakening QuizThe Bell Jar QuizThe Color Purple QuizThe Great Gatsby QuizThe Handmaid'S Tale QuizThe Invisible Man QuizThe Lottery QuizThe Mill On The Floss QuizThe Namesake QuizThe Victorian Novel Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books