MCQs- Life and works of Shakespeare
1. Shakespeare
was born in which year?
A) 1564
B) 1582
C) 1592
D) 1604
Answer: A) 1564
2. When is
English Language Day (Shakespeare’s birthday) celebrated?
A) April 23
B) March 15
C) July 26
D) June 5
Answer: A) April
23
3. The Globe
Theater is in:
A) London
B) Paris
C) Rome
D) Madrid
Answer: A) London
4. How many
sonnets did Shakespeare write?
A) 100
B) 154
C) 200
D) 300
Answer: B) 154
5. Which is NOT a
Shakespearean genre?
A) Comedy
B) Tragedy
C) Romance
D) Epic
Answer: D) Epic
6. Which theater
did Shakespeare co-own?
A) The Rose
B) The Globe
C) The Swan
D) The Curtain
Answer: B) The
Globe
7. Shakespeare's
father was a:
A) Schoolteacher
B) Grain dealer
C) Tailor
D) Lawyer
Answer: B) Grain
dealer
8. Shakespeare's
wife was named:
A) Anne Hathaway
B) Elizabeth I
C) Mary Queen of
Scots
D) Jane Austen
Answer: A) Anne
Hathaway
9. Shakespeare's
children were named:
A) John, Judith,
Susanna
B) Hamnet,
Judith, Susanna
C) William, Anne,
Richard
D) Elizabeth,
Mary, Edward
Answer: B)
Hamnet, Judith, Susanna
10. Anne Hathaway
was how many years older than Shakespeare?
A) 2 years
B) 8 years
C) 12 years
D) They were the
same age
Answer: B) 8
years
11. Shakespeare's
only son was named:
A) William
B) Hamnet
C) John
D) Richard
Answer: B) Hamnet
12. Which monarch
ruled during most of Shakespeare's career?
A) Henry VIII
B) Elizabeth I
C) Charles I
D) James I
Answer: B)
Elizabeth I
13. Which
pamphlet first recognized Shakespeare as a playwright?
A) The First
Folio
B) Greene's
"Groatsworth of Wit"
C) Meres'
"Palladis Tamia"
D) Jonson's
"Timber"
Answer: B)
Greene's "Groatsworth of Wit"
14. Who wrote
"He was not of an age, but for all time"?
A) John Dryden
B) Ben Jonson
C) Samuel Johnson
D) Francis Meres
Answer: B) Ben
Jonson
15. Robert Greene
accused Shakespeare of:
A) Plagiarism
B) Atheism
C) Treason
D) Incest
Answer: A)
Plagiarism
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16. Which critic
called Shakespeare "honey-tongued"?
A) John Weever
B) Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
C) Harold Bloom
D) T.S. Eliot
Answer: A) John
Weever
17. Ben Jonson's
comment about Shakespeare's education was:
A) "A master
of classics"
B) "Small
Latin and less Greek"
C) "Educated
beyond his station"
D)
"Illiterate genius"
Answer: B)
"Small Latin and less Greek"
18. Chronicle
plays were called "mirror for kings" by:
A) Dryden
B) Schlegel
C) Dr. Johnson
D) Ruskin
Answer: B)
Schlegel
19. Which
statement did John Ruskin make about Shakespeare?
A) "He had
only heroines, no heroes"
B) "The
inventor of human nature"
C) "The
father of English drama"
D) "A poet
of nature"
Answer: A)
"He had only heroines, no heroes"
20. Francis Meres
praised Shakespeare's excellence in:
A) Comedy only
B) Tragedy only
C) Both comedy
and tragedy
D) Sonnets only
Answer: C) Both
comedy and tragedy
21. How many
plays were published in Shakespeare's lifetime?
A) 16
B) 24
C) 36
D) 38
22. First Folio
was published in:
A) 1599
B) 1616
C) 1623
D) 1642
Answer: C) 1623
23. Which edition
is considered the most scholarly?
A) First Folio
B) Arden Edition
C) Oxford Edition
D) Riverside
Edition
Answer: B) Arden
Edition
24. Which two
plays were MISSING from the First Folio?
A) Titus
Andronicus & Pericles
B) Pericles &
Two Noble Kinsmen
C) Edward III
& Sir Thomas More
D) Cymbeline
& Winter's Tale
Answer: B)
Pericles & Two Noble Kinsmen
25. Shakespeare
likely collaborated with Marlowe on:
A) Titus
Andronicus
B) The Tempest
C) Twelfth Night
D) All's Well
That Ends Well
Answer: A) Titus
Andronicus
26. Shakespeare's
first published poems were dedicated to:
A) Queen
Elizabeth I
B) Earl of
Southampton
C) King James I
D) Ben Jonson
Answer: B) Earl
of Southampton
27. Shakespeare's
theater company was called:
A) The Lord
Chamberlain's Men
B) The Royal
Shakespeare Company
C) The Globe
Players
D) The King's Men
Answer: A) The
Lord Chamberlain's Men
28. Shakespeare's
company became "The King's Men" in:
A) 1599
B) 1603
C) 1610
D) 1616
Answer: B) 1603
(after Elizabeth's death)
29. Which play
features "To be or not to be"?
A) Macbeth
B) Hamlet
C) Othello
D) King Lear
Answer: B) Hamlet
30. "All the
world's a stage" appears in:
A) As You Like It
B) Much Ado About
Nothing
C) The Tempest
D) Twelfth Night
Answer: A) As You
Like It
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31. The character
Shylock, who demands a "pound of flesh", appears in which play?
a) The Jew of
Malta
b) Julius Caesar
c) The Merchant
of Venice
d) Titus
Andronicus
Answer: c) The
Merchant of Venice
32. The
"Scottish Play" refers to:
A) Macbeth
B) Hamlet
C) King Lear
D) Othello
Answer: A)
Macbeth
33. Which play
has Rosalind and Orlando?
A) As You Like It
B) Twelfth Night
C) The Winter's
Tale
D) Measure for
Measure
Answer: A) As You
Like It
34. Which play
features Prospero?
A) The Tempest
B) King Lear
C) Antony and
Cleopatra
D) Coriolanus
Answer: A) The
Tempest
35. Which play
has two pairs of identical twins causing confusion?
A) The Comedy of
Errors
B) Much Ado About
Nothing
C) The Two
Gentlemen of Verona
D) Love's
Labour's Lost
Answer: A) The
Comedy of Errors
36. Which play is
about a king dividing his kingdom?
A) King Lear
B) Macbeth
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
Answer: A) King
Lear
37. Which play
features Puck?
A) A Midsummer
Night's Dream
B) The Tempest
C) Twelfth Night
D) The Winter's
Tale
Answer: A) A
Midsummer Night's Dream
38. Which tragedy
features a "play within a play" called "Murder of Gonzago"
?
A) Othello
B) King Lear
C) Hamlet
D) Titus
Andronicus
Answer: C) Hamlet
39. In Macbeth,
how does Lady Macbeth die?
A) Poisoned
B) Stabbed
C) Suicide
D) Never
specified
Answer: D) Never
specified
40. Othello's
tragic flaw is:
A) Ambition
B) Jealousy
C) Indecision
D) Greed
Answer: B)
Jealousy
41. Which comedy
features cross-dressing twins?
A) Twelfth Night
B) The Taming of
the Shrew
C) Much Ado About
Nothing
D) Love's
Labour's Lost
Answer: A)
Twelfth Night
42. Rosalind and
Orlando are in:
A) As You Like It
B) Twelfth Night
C) A Midsummer
Night's Dream
D) The Winter's
Tale
Answer: A) As You
Like It
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SET-II
90. Which play
opens with the witches chanting, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"?
a) The Tempest
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) King Lear
Answer: c)
Macbeth
91. What is the
source of Pericles, Prince of Tyre?
a) Boccaccio's
Decameron
b) Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales
c) Gower's
Confessio Amantis
d) Plutarch's
Lives
Answer: c)
Gower's Confessio Amantis
92. Which play
inspired Aldous Huxley's novel title Brave New World?
a) The Tempest
b) The Winter's
Tale
c) Cymbeline
d) Pericles,
Prince of Tyre
Answer: a) The
Tempest
93. Who speaks
the line: "Put out the light, and then put out the light" before
killing Desdemona?
a) Iago
b) Cassio
c) Othello
d) Brabantio
Answer: c)
Othello
94. Which play
contains the song "Fear no more the heat of the sun"?
a) Cymbeline
b) The Winter's
Tale
c) Measure for
Measure
d) Twelfth Night
Answer: a)
Cymbeline
95. Shortest
tragedy is:
A) Macbeth
B) Julius Caesar
C) Othello
D) Timon of
Athens
Answer: A)
Macbeth
96. Shakespeare's
shortest play is:
A) The Comedy of
Errors
B) Macbeth
C) A Midsummer
Night's Dream
D) The Tempest
Answer: A) The
Comedy of Errors
97.Which is
Shakespeare's longest play?
A) King Lear
B) Hamlet
C) Romeo and
Juliet
D) Antony and
Cleopatra
Answer: B) Hamlet
98. Shakespeare's
final play?
A) The Tempest
B) Twelfth Night
C) The Winter's
Tale
D) All's Well
That Ends Well
Answer: A) The
Tempest
99. Last play
Shakespeare wrote alone:
A) The Tempest
B) Henry VIII
C) The Two Noble
Kinsmen
D) Cymbeline
Answer: A) The
Tempest
100. Shakespeare
died on:
A) 23 April 1616
B) 1 May 1616
C) 23 November
1616
D) Exact date
unknown
Answer: A) 23
April 1616
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