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William Shakespeare(1564 - 1616)
(Elizabethan Period)

1)In which town was Shakespeare born?

a)London
b)Cambridge
c)Stratford
d)Oxford

2)How many children did Shakespeare have?
1)3
2)5
3)8
4)12

3)How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
a)36
b)37
c)38
d)39

4)What was Shakespeare's first play?
a)King Lear
b)Henry VI
c)The Tempest
d)Romeo and Juliet

5)How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?

a)110
b)154
c)175
d)187


6)How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare?

a)2
b)4
c)1
d)0

7)Shakespeare died on?

a)23rd April 1616
b)25th April 1616,
c)28th April 1616
d)30th April 1616

8)Shakespeare died at the age of

a)48
b)52
c)60
d)63

9)How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare's plays?

a)7
b)9
c)11
d)13


10)The line "To be or not to be" comes from which play?

a)Macbeth
b)Twelfth Night
c)A Midsummer Night's dream
d)Hamlet


11) Was the Globe…

a) A Roman Amphitheater.
b) An Elizabethan Theater.
c) An Elizabethan sports stadium.
d) A famous map of the world.

12)Is there is a monument of Shakespeare in Stratford today?

a)True
b)False

13)Which of these was not one of Shakespeare's plays?

a)Titus Andronicus
b)The Tempest
c)Cymbeline
d)Shakespeare in love

14)Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote,"My salad days, when I was green in judgment." come from?

a)Antony and Cleopatra
b)Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
c)The Winters Tale
d)The Merry Wives of Windsor

15)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

16)Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" come from?

a)King Lear
b)As You Like It
c)The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d)The Life and Death of King John

17)In what year was the First Folio published?

a)1626
b)1621
c)1623
d)1629

18)What nationality was Shakespeare?

a)Italian
b)English
c)Scottish
d)Greek

19)In which century was Shakespeare born?

a)16th
b)14th
c)15th
d)17th


20)which famous Shakespeare play does the quote "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" come from?

a)The Merry Wives of Windsor
b)Othello, the Moor of Venice
c)Pericles, Prince of Tyre
d)King Henry the Sixth, Part II

21)Which river is associated with Shakespeare's birth place?

a)The Thames
b)The Avon
c)The Tyburn
d)The Seven

22)Which famous play does the quote,"When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" come from?

a) The Taming of the Shrew
b) King Lear
c) The Tempest
d) Macbeth

23)How many of Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories?

a) 7
b) 10
c) 14
d) 18


24)The group of four plays known as the "major tetralogy" is:

a) Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI
b) 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III
c) King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III
d) Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V


25)In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play?

a) King John
b) Richard II
c) Henry VIII
d) Henry V

1)c
2)a
3)b
4)b
5)b
6)a
7)a
8)b
9)d
10)d
11)b
12)a
13)d
14)a
15)b
16)a
17)c
18)b
19)a
20)d
21)b
22)d
23)b
24)d
25)c

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