Shakespeare MCQs Questions Answers Quiz for Practice

1. In which year was William Shakespeare born?

1. 1594
2. 1534
3. 1564

2. By which year is it thought that William Shakespeares plays were being regularly performed in London?

1. 1600
2. 1592
3. 1596

3. During his lifetime, Shakespeare wrote a total of

1. 48 plays and 164 sonnets
2. 28 plays and 144 sonnets
3. 38 plays and 154 sonnets

4. How old was Shakespeare when he died?

1. 57 years old
2. 47 years old
3. 52 years old

5. How old was Shakespeare when he married Anne Hathaway?

1. 18 years old
2. 16 years old
3. 17 years old

6. In which play would you find a character called Lady Capulet?

1. Twelfth Night
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. The Tempest

7. In which play would you find a character called Starveling?

1. A Midsummer Nights bream
2. The Merry Wives of Windsor
3. Othello

8. In which play would you find a character called Touchstone?

1. King Lear
2. Alls Well That Ends Well
3. As You Like It

9. In which play would you find the following quote When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

1. Macbeth
2. Taming of the Shrew
3. The Merry Wives of Windsor

10. In which play would you find the following quote? A pair of star-crossd lovers take their life.

1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Henry V
3. Much Ado About Nothing

11. In which play would you find the following quote? Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!

1. Comedy of Errors
2. The Merchant of Venice
3. Hamlet

12. In which play would you find the following quote? The quality of mercy is not straind, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.

1. Two Gentlemen of Verona
2. The Merchant of Venice
3. Henry IV

13. In which play would you find the following quote? What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

1. Loves Labours Lost
2. A Midsummer Nights bream
3. Titus Andronicus

14. In which town or city in England was Shakespeare born?

1. London
2. Stratford-upon-Avon
3. Warwick

15. The play Macbeth was influenced by the 1605 Gunpowder Plot.

1. True Statement
2. False Statement