shakespeare quiz

Answer key: 1 = B2 = A3 = A4 = C5 = A6 = C7 = A8 = B9 = A10 = C11 = B12 = B13 = C14 = A15 = C16 = A17 = BShakespeare wrote:

a) 56 plays

b) 46 plays

c) 36 plays

What is your score?

Romeo and Juliet is a:

a) comedy

b) tragedy

c) sonnet

Shakespeare was married:

a) to Anne Hathaway

b) to Mary Hathaway

c) to Emily Hathaway

Shakespeare was also:

a) a book publisher

b) a doctor

c) an actor

Read the questions and circle the answers you think are correct. Later on your teacher will tell you what the correct answers are.

Hamlet is one of the most:

a) popular tragedies

b) popular comedies

c) popular sonnets

Shakespeare was an English:

a) scientist

b) writer and a poet

c) explorer

In those days

acted in theatres:

a) only men

b) only women

c) both men and women

Who said To be, or not to be:

a) King Lear

b) Hamlet

c) Romeo

Shakespeare was born in:

a) 1564

b) 1664

c) 1774

Shakespeare performed before:

a) Henry VIII

b) Queen Elizabeth II

c) Queen Elizabeth I

Shakespeare invented the word

a) assassination

b) encyclopedia

c) tragedy

Shakespeare had:

a) one son and two daughters

b) one daughter and two sons

c) no children

Shakespeare is often called:

a) The Bard of Avon

b) The Lord of Avon

c) Sir

Juliet was in love with:

a) Julius Caesar

b) Macbeth

c) Romeo

Shakespeare was born in:

a) Cambridge

b) London

c) Stratford-upon-Avon

Shakespeare died in:

a) 1675

b) 1616

c) 1632

The theatre were Shakespeares plays were acted out was called:

a) the English theatre

b) the Globe Theatre

c) the Royal Theatre