William Shakespeare Mcqs

 

William Shakespeare Mcqs

1. Shakespeare was born at Stratford-on-Avon. Stratford was the name of the town where

he was born. What was Avon?

(A) A high plateau on which Stratford was situated

(B) A hillock on which Stratford was situated

(C) A river on the bank of which Stratford was situated

(D) A heath where Stratford was situated

2. How many plays did Shakespeare write in all?

(A) 37

(B) 38

(C) 39

(D) 36

3. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write in all?

(A) 153

(B) 154

(C) 155

(D) 156

4.What is Shakespeare's Venus and Adonais?

(A) A Comedy

(B) A Tragedy

(C) A Narrative poem 

(D) A Romance

5.To whom did Shakespeare dedicate his first Narrative poem Venus and Adonais?

(A) Queen Elizabeth

(B) Earl of Southampton

(C) James I

(D) Ben Jonson

6. Who called Shakespeare "an upstart crow beautified with our feathers"?

(A) John Lyly

(B) George Peele

(C) Thomas Kyd

(D) Robert Greene

7.Who wrote the malicious pamphlet entitled "A Groat's Worth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance" against Shakespeare?

(A) Robert Greene 

(B)Ben Johnson 

(C)Thomas Kyd

(D)Spencer 

8. Who ridiculed Shakespeare by saying that he knew "small Latin and less Greek"?

(A) Marlowe

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) Spenser

(D) Sidney 

9. Who said, "Shakespeare has only heroines and no heroes"?

(A) Matthew Arnold 

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) Ruskin

(D) T. S. Eliot

10. Dryden's play All For Love is based on one of Shakespeare's plays. On which of the following plays

(A) Romeo and Juliet

(B) Antony and Cleopatra

(C) Tempest

(D) The Merchant of Venice

11.The phrase "What's in a name ?" occurs in

(A) Othello

(B) Hamlet 

(C) Romeo and Juliet 

(D) Julius Caesar

12. The title of the novel The Sound and Fury reminds us of Shakespear's:

(A) Othello

(B) King Lear

(C) Hamlet 

(D)Macbeth

 

13. Aldous Huxley took the hint for the title of his novel Brave New World from

Shakespeare's:

(A) Tempest

(B) A Midsummer Night's Dream

(C) Winter's Tale

(D) Antony and Cleopatra

14. Shakespeare's King Lear was given a happy ending by one of the following playwrights. Identify the playwright:

(A) Thomas Otway 

(B) Nathaniel Lee

(C) Nagin Tate

(D) John Clare

15. Who has written Tales from Shakespeare?

(A) Samuel Rogers

(B) Nahun Tate

(C) Charles Lamb

(D) Thomas Love Peacock

16. In which play does Shakespeare attack the Puritans?

(A) The Merchant of Venice

(B) Twelfth Night

(C)As You Like It

(D) Much Ado About Nothing

17. "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale." About whom are these lines spoken?

(A) Desdemona

(B) Cymbeline

(C) Cleopatra

(D)Cordelia

18.Imogen is the heroine of :

(A) Cymbeline 

(B) Pericles

(C) Winter's Tale

(D) Tempest

19. Who is the author of the critical work Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered?

(A) EM. Forster

(B) Samuel Butler

(C) Matthew Arnold 

(D) Dr. Johnson

20. Who is the author of Preface to Shakespeare?

(A) W.H. Auden

(B) Charles Lamb

(C) Hazlitt

(D) Coleridge

21. Who has written the critical book Characters of Shakespeare's Plays?

(A) Coleridge

(B) William Hague 

(C) Hazlitt

(D) Arnold