Famous playwright, poet & others Mcqs - Set 16

1)   W.B.Yeats used the phrase ‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem ?

a. Sailing to Byzantium
b. Byzantium
c. The Second Coming
d. Leda and the Swan
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sailing to Byzantium

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2)   Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence ?

a. The White Peacock
b. The Trespasser
c. Sons and Lovers
d. Women in Love
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The White Peacock

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3)   The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is ?

a. God
b. Satan
c. Adam
d. Eve
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Satan

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4)   Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches ?

a. An armed head
b. A bloody dagger floating in mid-air.
c. A bloody child.
d. A child crowned, with a tree in his hand
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A bloody dagger floating in mid-air.

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5)   Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of ?

a. A.H. Hallam
b. Edward King
c. Wellington
d. P.B Shelley
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A.H. Hallam

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6)   How many of Shakespeare’s plays are classified as histories ?

a. 7
b. 10
c. 14
d. 18
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 10

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7)   Which famous play does the quote,”When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” come from ?

a. The Taming of the Shrew
b. King Lear
c. The Tempest
d. Macbeth
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Macbeth

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8)   which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” come from ?

a. The Merry Wives of Windsor
b. Othello, the Moor of Venice
c. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
d. King Henry the Sixth, Part II
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: King Henry the Sixth, Part II

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9)   What nationality was Shakespeare ?

a. Italian
b. English
c. Scottish
d. Greek
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: English

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10)   Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” come from ?

a. King Lear
b. As You Like It
c. The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII
d. The Life and Death of King John
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: King Lear

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11)   Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, “My salad days, when I was green in judgment.” come from ?

a. Antony and Cleopatra
b. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
c. The Winters Tale
d. The Merry Wives of Windsor
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Antony and Cleopatra

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12)   Was the Globe ?

a. A Roman Amphitheater.
b. An Elizabethan Theater.
c. An Elizabethan sports stadium.
d. A famous map of the world.
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: An Elizabethan Theater.

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13)   How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeare’s plays ?

a. 7
b. 9
c. 11
d. 13
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 13

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14)   Shakespeare died on ?

a. 23rd April 1616
b. 25th April 1616
c. 28th April 1616
d. 30th April 1616
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 23rd April 1616

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15)   How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?

a. 110
b. 154
c. 175
d. 187
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 154

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16)   How many plays didWilliam Shakespeare write ?

a. 36
b. 37
c. 38
d. 39
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 37

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17)   What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613 ?

a. 51
b. 49
c. 52
d. 53
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 49

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18)   When was William Shakespeare baptized ?

a. 24 July1564
b. 26 April 1564
c. 26 August 1564
d. 16 April 1564
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 26 April 1564

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19)   What was the first name of the playing company King’s Men that William Shakespeare partly-owned ?

a. Lord Chamberlain’s Men
b. Stratford Theatre
c. The Queens Troupe
d. The London Theatre
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Lord Chamberlain’s Men

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20)   Where was William Shakespeare was born and brought up ?

a. Yorkshire
b. Stratford-upon-Avon
c. Chester
d. London
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Stratford-upon-Avon

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21)   In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play ?

a. King John
b. Richard II
c. Henry VIII
d. Henry V
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Henry VIII

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22)   The group of four plays known as the “major tetralogy” is ?

a. Richard III, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI
b. 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III
c. King John, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III
d. Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V

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23)   Which river is associated with Shakespeare’s birth place ?

a. The Thames
b. The Avon
c. The Tyburn
d. The Seven
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The Avon

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24)   In which century was Shakespeare born ?

a. 16th
b. 14th
c. 15th
d. 17th
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 16th

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25)   In what year was the First Folio published ?

a. 1626
b. 1621
c. 1623
d. 1629
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 1623

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26)   Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” come from ?

a. Cymbeline
b. Hamlet
c. Titus Andronicus
d. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hamlet

Explanation:
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27)   Which of these was not one of Shakespeare’s plays ?

a. Titus Andronicus
b. The Tempest
c. Cymbeline
d. Shakespeare in love
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Shakespeare in love

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28)   The line “To be or not to be” comes from which play ?

a. Macbeth
b. Twelfth Night
c. A Midsummer Night’s dream
d. Hamlet
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hamlet

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29)   Shakespeare died at the age of______________?

a. 48
b. 52
c. 60
d. 63
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 52

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30)   How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare ?

a. 2
b. 4
c. 1
d. 0
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 2

Explanation:
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31)   What was Shakespeare’s first play ?

a. King Lear
b. Henry VI
c. The Tempest
d. Romeo and Juliet
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Henry VI

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32)   In which town was Shakespeare born ?

a. London
b. Cambridge
c. Stratford
d. Oxford
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Stratford

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33)   How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?

a. 164
b. 145
c. 154
d. 126
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 154

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34)   At what age of did William Shakespeare marry Anne Hathaway ?

a. 18
b. 22
c. 19
d. 23
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 18

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35)   Which one of the following terms is often called for the England’s national poet, William Shakespeare ?

a. Bard of London
b. Bard of Avon
c. Master Dramatist
d. Supreme Poet
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bard of Avon

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36)   To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ?

a. Tragedies
b. Historical Plays
c. Narrative Poems
d. Comedies
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Narrative Poems

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37)   Between what time period did William Shakespeare begin a successful career in London as an actor ?

a. between1579 and 1583
b. between1585 and 1592
c. between1579 and 1587
d. between1580 and 1591
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: between1585 and 1592

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38)   Who is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?

a. Ralph Waldo Emerson
b. Ernest Holmes
c. John Locke
d. John Locke
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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39)   Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?

a. Kubla Khan
b. Christabel
c. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d. Biographia Literaria
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Biographia Literaria

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40)   The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal ?

a. On the slave trade
b. On romantic philosophy
c. On the creativity of human mind
d. On supernatural elements in poetry
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: On the slave trade

Explanation:
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