shakespeare quiz
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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
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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