1. Which period of British literature does Shakespeare belong to?
a) (Medieval
b) Romantic
c) Elizabethan
d) Modern
Answer: Elizabethan
2. Shakespeare lived in the reign of
a) Queen Victoria
b) Elizabeth II
c) King Charles
d) Elizabeth I
Answer: Elizabeth I
3. William Shakespeare was an English dramatist and poet of — century.
a) fourteenth
b) seventeenth
c) fifteenth
d) Sixteenth
Answer: Sixteenth
4. William Shakespeare was born in-
a) 1564
b) 1493
c) 1664
d) 1616
Answer: 1564
5. Where was Shakespeare born?
a) London
b) Cambridge
c) Oxford
d) Stratford
Answer: Stratford
6. Which river is associated with Shakespeare's birth place?
a) The Thames
b) The Avon
c) Tyburn
d) The Seven
Answer: The Avon
7. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, But what county is Stratford in?
a) Sussex
b) Norfolk
c) Warwickshire
d) Near Anne Hathaway's cottage.
Answer: Warwickshire
8. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is...
a) In Henley Street
b) Located in a farmhouse.
c) Along the Avon.
d) Near Anne Hathaway's cottage.
Answer: In Henley Street
9. . William Shakespeare was a writer from-
a) Britain
b) USA
c) Germany
d) Greece
Answer: Britain
10. In what year did Shakespeare die?
a) 1570 AD
b) 1630 AD
c) 1580 AD
d) 1616 AD.
Answer: 1616 AD.
11. When did William Shakespeare die?
a) 24 January 1649
b) 31 December 1707
c) March 1626
d) 23 April 1616
Answer: 23 April 1616
12. How old was Shakespeare when he died?
a) 47 years old
b) 57 years old
c) 52 years old
d) 53 years old
Answer: 52 years old
13. Where was William Shakespeare buried?
a) Stratford upon Avon
b) Westminster Abbey
c) There are no records that tell us
d) Paris
Answer: Stratford upon Avon
14. The national poet of England is —
a) ) Milton
b) Homer
c) Wordsworth
d) Shakespeare
Answer: Shakespeare
15. Shakespeare was a/an — play writer.
a) English
b) French
c) Italian
d) American
Answer: English
16. Shakespeare wrote brilliant....
a) poems
b) novels
c) essays
d) dramas
Answer: dramas
17. William Shakespeare is a famous —.
a) dramatist
b) novelist
c) essayist
d) critic
Answer: dramatist
18. Shakespeare was famous for all but one the following:
a) Comedies
b) Bourgeois drama
c) Tragedies
d) Tragio- drama
Answer: Bourgeois drama
19. William Shakespeare is a famous — Century English play Wright.
a) sixteenth
b) Nineteenth
c) Eighteen
d) fifteenth
Answer: sixteenth
20. By which year is it thought that William Shakespeare's plays were being regularly performed in London?
a) 1592
b) 1596
c) 1600
d) 1660
Answer: 1592
