Multiple-Choice Questions or Objective Type Questions on Shakespeare [PDF Included]

Nowadays, Multiple-Choice Questions play an important role in all competitive examinations along with in school examinations. Here, I will show you some Multiple Choice Questions on Shakespeare.

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MCQ on Shakespeare

MCQ on Biography of Shakespeare

• Who is often known as England’s National Poet?

1. John Keats
2. Walter Dela Mare
3. King Lear
4. William Shakespeare  ✔

• In which year Shakespeare has born?

1. 1562
2. 1563
3. 1564  ✔ 
4. 1565

• Which date is unkown?

1. The date of death of Shakespeare
2. The birthdate of Shakespeare  ✔
3. The marriage date of Shakespeare
4. None of these

• When was Shakespeare baptised?

1. April,23
2. April,24
3. April,25
4. April,26  ✔

• In which year Shakespeare was baptised?

1. 1564  ✔
2. 1565
3. 1566
4. 1567

• Where Shakespeare was baptised?

1. Holy Trinity Church ✔
2. Reis Magos Church
3. Catherine Church
4. Velankanni Church

• When did Shakespeare marry?

1. At the age of 24
2. At the age of 22
3. At the age of 20
4. At the age of 18  ✔

• The name of William Shakespeare’s wife is ____.

1. Anne Hathaway ✔
2. Mary Arden
3. Susanna Hall
4. None of these

• How many children, he had?

1. 4
2. 3  ✔
3. 2
4. 1

• The name of his father is ____.

1. William Shakespeare
2. John Shakespeare  ✔
3. Hamnet Shakespeare
4. None of these

• The name of his mother is ____.

1. Mary Arden  ✔
2. Susanna Hall
3. Judith Quiney
4. None of these

• 23^rd April is celebrated as ____.

1. Saint George’s Day ✔
2. Hallow’s Day
3. Saint David’s Day
4. Saint Patrick’s Day

• John Shakespeare was a ____.

1. Poet
2. Playwriter
3. Glove maker  ✔
4. Both 1 & 2

• When did William Shakespeare pass away?

1. April 23  ✔
2. April 24
3. April 25
4. April 26

• In which year did he pass away?

1. 1613
2. 1614
3. 1615
4. 1616  ✔

MCQ on Shakespeare’s Sonnets

• How many Sonnets of Shakespeare were published altogether?

1. 150
2. 154  ✔
3. 158
4. 162

• These Sonnets were published in ____.

1. 1605
2. 1607
3. 1609  ✔
4. 1611

• The first 126 sonnets were addressed to ____.

1. A young man  ✔
2. A dark lady
3. Children
4. Orphans

• The next 28 sonnets were addressed to ____.

1. A young man
2. A dark lady  ✔
3. Children
4. Orphans

• All sonnets have ____ numbers of lines.

1. 12
2. 13
3. 14  ✔
4. 15

• The sonnets are almost constructed of ____ stanzas.

1. Three line
2. Four line  ✔
3. Five line
4. Six lines

• The rhyme schemes of his sonnets are ____.

1. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG  ✔
2. ABBA CDDC EE FGGF
3. ABBC DEEF GHHG AH
4. ABCC DEFF GHII AI

• Sonnets using the scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG are known as ____.

1. Shakespearean sonnets
2. English sonnets
3. Elizabethan sonnets
4. All of these  ✔

• Number 99 sonnet has ____ numbers of lines.

1. 14
2. 15  ✔
3. 16 
4. 17

• The sonnets to the Dark Lady were first composed around ____.

1. 1591-1595  ✔
2. 1597-1603
3. 1604-1607
4. None of these

• The sonnets to the Fair Youth were first composed around ____.

1. 1591-1595 
2. 1597-1603  ✔
3. 1604-1607
4. None of these

• Shakespeare’s tragedy is published in ____.

1. Love’s Labour’s Lost
2. The Passionate Pilgrime
3. Romeo and Juliet  ✔
4. None of these

• The ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was published in ____.

1. 1595
2. 1597  ✔
3. 1599
4. 1602

• The Passionate Pilgrime is an anthology of ____ numbers of poems.

1. 18
2. 20  ✔
3. 22
4. 24

• Shakespeare’s first poem was ____.

1. Venus and Adonis  ✔
2. The Rape of Lucrece
3. Hamlet
4. None of these

• The first poem of Shakespeare was published in ____.

1. 1590
2. 1591
3. 1592
4. 1593  ✔

• The longest play of Shakespeare is ____.

1. Venus and Adonis
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. Hamlet  ✔
4. Macbeth

• The shortest play of Shakespeare is ___.

1. Hamlet
2. The comedy of Errors  ✔
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. Macbeth

• Which one of the following was written by Shakespeare?

1. Gitanjali
2. Gitabitan
3. Tempest  ✔
4. The Inner Engineering

• In which language, Shakespeare had written the sonnets?

1. Greek
2. Latin
3. Early modern English  ✔
4. Portuguese

• Which one of the following is a Shakespearean word?

1. Red letter day
2. In a pickle  ✔
3. Raining cats and dogs
4. None of these

• Which one of the following statesman is true?

1. Shakespeare had invented more than 1700 words which are also used today.  ✔
2. Shakespeare had not invented any words.

• “The course of true love never did run smooth”- This quote is from ____.

1. The Merchant of Venice
2. As you like it
3. A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream  ✔
4. Julius Caesar

• “Life is but a walking shadow” – this quote is from ____.

1. Hamlet
2. Macbeth  ✔
3. As you like it
4. None of these

Quiz on Shakespeare

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Conclusion

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