MCQs- Shakespeare - Important Bits

 Shakespeare - Important MCQs

1. Which monarch ruled England during Shakespeare's life time?

a. King James-I

b. Queen Elizabeth-I

c. King Henry VIII  

d. Queen Victoria

 

2. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

a.134    

b.154   

c.120    

d.200

 

3. In which town was William Shakespeare born?

a. London           

b. Canterbury    

c. Stratford-upon Avon  

d. Oxford

 

4. Shakespeare is also known as Bard of________

a. Canterbury

b. Oxford

c. London

d. Avon

 

5. Which Shakespearean play explores themes of prejudice, mercy, and justice through the trial of Shylock, a Jewish money lender?

a. Richard III

b. The Merchant of Venice

c. King Lear

d. Twelfth Night

 

6. Which Shakespearean play tells the tragic story of two young lovers from feuding families in Verona?

a. Othello

b. Macbeth

c. Hamlet

d. Romeo and Juliet

 

7. Who criticized Shakespeare as “an upstart crow beautified with our feathers”

a. Thomas Kyd

b. John Lyly

c. Robert Greene

d. George Peele

 

8. The famous soliloquy "To be, or not to be" is in……… ?

a. Hamlet

b. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

c. Julius Caeser

d. Romeo and Juliet

 

9. Who said Shakespeare knew “small Latin and less Greek”

a. Ben Jonson

b. Spencer

c. Arnold

d. Sydney

 

10. Aldous Huxley’s Novel “Brave New World” took title from Shakespeare’s….?.

a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

b. Tempest

c. Winter’s Tale

d. Hamlet

 

11. Who said “He was not of an age, but for all times” about Shakespeare.

a. T S Eliot

b. Arnold

c. Ben Jonson

d. Dryden

 

12. Shakespeare’s first folio was published in…..?.

a. 1616

b. 1599

c. 1685

d. 1623

 

13. “The Moor of Venice” is the subtitle of…………?

a. Hamlet

b. Cymbeline

c. Coriolanus

d. Othello

 

14. The line “All that glitters is not gold” appears in ……..

a. Othello

b. Macbeth

c. Hamlet

d. The Merchant of Venice

 

15. What is the name of Antony’s Sword?

a. Actiuman

b. Romulus

c. Philippi

d. Dolabella

 

16. “A Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance (1592)” is a pamphlet against Shakespeare was written by?

a. Robert Greene

b. Spencer

c. Ben Jonson

d. Sydney

 

17. Two warring families “Montagues and Capulets” appears in…...

a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

b. Romeo and Juliet

c. The Merchant of Venice

d. Hamlet

 

18. “Touchstone” is a character in….

a. King Lear

b. All is well that ends well

c. Othello

d. As you like it

 

19. “When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” is the opening line of ..….

a. Romeo and Juliet

b. Othello

c. Hamlet

d. Macbeth

 

20. Both Birth and Death dates of Shakespeare celebrated as English Language Day is on…

a. 23 April

b. 23 May

c. 26 April

d. 26 May

 

21. In Julius Caeser Act III, scene 2, Brutus says that he loves Caeser but he loves ______ more.

a. Himself

b. Rome

c. Cassius

d. Antony

 

22. “The grave digger scene” in Hamlet is an example of…..

a. Interlude

b. Play within play

c. Comic relief

d. Dramatic Irony

 

23. Who said “Shakespearean tragedy is essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.”

a. Wilson Knights

b. Samuel Johnson

c. Ben Jonson

d. A C Bradley

 

24. Shakespeare’s first Narrative poem “Venus and Adonis” was dedicated to?

a. Ben Jonson

b. Queen Elizabet

c. King James-I

d. Earl of Southampton

 

25. Who said “I admire him (Ben Jonson), but I love Shakespeare”

a. Dryden

b. Dr. Johnson

c. Pope

d. Sydney

 

26. Who said “Indian empire, or no Indian empire. We cannot do without Shakespeare."

a. Eliot

b. Johnson

c. Arnold

d. Carlyle

 

27. "Mellifluous Shakespeare” is a famous quote by

a. Thomas Heywood

b. Dr. Johnson

c. Ben Jonson

d. Dryden

 

28. "How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?” Is a famous by?

a. Francis Meres

b. Dowden

c. A C Bradley

d. L C Knights

 

29. “On the knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1823)” is a famous work by?

a. Thomas De Quincey

b. T S Eliot

c. L C Knights

d. A C Bradley

 

30.Globe Theatre (Shakespeare is one of the partners in it) was built in

a. 1603

b. 1623

c. 1599

d. 1625

 

31. Shakespeare’s Dramatic company Lord Chamberlain’s Men was renamed as.

a. King’s Men

b. Queen’s Men

c. Admiral’s Men

d. Palsgrave’s Company

 

32.How many plays are included in First Folio (1623)

a. 37

b. 38

c. 36

d. 23

  

33. The Fellow actor(s) of Shakespeare who published the First Folio in 1623 ……

a. John Hemmings

b. Henry Condell

c. A and B

d. None of them

 

34. According to E K Chambers out of 38 plays, the number of Histories, Tragedies and comedies respectively…

a. 10,10,18

b. 18,10,10

c. 10,18,10

d. 11,10,17

 

35. The phrase Sexual Jealousy is related to………

a. King Lear

b. Hamlet

c. Othello

d. Macbeth

 

36. The phrase Lack of Judgement is related to………

a. Hamlet

b. Cymbeline

c. Coriolanus

d. King Lear

 

37. The phrase Indecision is related to………

a. Macbeth

b. Hamlet

c. Othello

d. King Lear

 

38. The phrase Black and Deep desires is related to………

a. King Lear

b. Othello

c. Hamlet

d. Macbeth

 

39. First play by Shakespeare is….

a. Richard III

b. Henry VIII

c. Henry IV

d. Henry VI

 

40. “Cross dressing” is NOT used in….

a. Two Gentlemen of Verona

b. As You Like It

c. The Merchant of Venice

d. Hamlet

 

41. The story of Ferdinand, King of Navarre and his three noble companion who takes oath not to give in to the company of women.

a. Love’s Labour’s Lost

b. Comedy of Errors

c. Titus Andronicus

d. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

42. Shakespeare’s comedy set in magical forest.

a. Merchant of Venice

b. As you like it

c. Tempest

d. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

43. “Under the greenwood tree” song is in…

a. As you like it

b. Merchant of Venice

c. Twelfth Night

d. Antony and Cleopatra

 

44. “What you will?” is the subtitle of

a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

b. Romeo and Juliet

c. Comedy of Errors

d. Twelfth Night

 

45. Play written by Shakespeare when Queen Elizabeth wants to see Falstaff, the fat knight, in love….

a. The Merry Wives of Windsor

b. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

c. Comedy of Errors

d. As You like it

46. Faulkner’s Sound and Fury; Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead; Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince are based on….

a. King Lear

b. Macbeth

c. Othello

d. Hamlet

 

47. Neither a lender, nor a borrower; Clothes maketh the man; Brevity is the soul of wit –are famous lines by

a. Jacques in As You Like it

b. Polonius in Hamlet

c. Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor

d. Viola in Twelfth Night

 

48. All the world’s a stage famous soliloquy by Jacques about seven ages of man is in…

a. Twelfth Night

b. Hamlet

c. Tempest

d. As You Like It

 

49. Put out the Light and then put out the light is a line in….

a. Othello

b. King Lear

c. Macbeth

d. Hamlet

 

50. “Sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s Child!” Is a quote by

a. Eliot

b. Pope

c. Johnson

d. Milton

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