1.A classic comedian, close friends with Hal until the end of the play is Sir John Falstaff. He is acted in _________.
a).King Henry IV (Part I)
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).Antonio and Cleopatra
2.Rape attempt have the power to changes the social position from high to low. Which of the following Shakespeare’s novel depicts this content in minor part?
a).King Henry IV (Part I)
b).The Tempest
c).Macbeth
d).Antonio and Cleopatra
3.Where can you find character ‘Gadshill’ in the following Shakespeare’s plays?
a).King Henry IV (Part I)
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).Antonio and Cleopatra
4.Which of the following play has connectivity between Rome and Egypt from beginning to end?
a).Antonio and Cleopatra
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).The Tempest
5.‘Death is a fearful thing’ and ‘And shamed life a hateful’ are the famous quotes has appeared in one of the play given below.
a).Antonio and Cleopatra
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).The Tempest
6.Which of the following Shakespeare play allowed to make sin to save a person, the audience can feel the sin profound the judgement to escape from punishment?
a).Antonio and Cleopatra
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).The Tempest
7.In which of the following Shakespeare play expose sin, sexual intercourse, prostitution, fate, sacrifice virginity, and marriage?
a).King Henry IV (Part I)
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).The Tempest
8.Who is the king in England when ‘Measure for Measure’ performed first time in Shakespeare’s days?
a).Queen Elizabeth
b).King James I
c).Charles I
d).Charles II
9.Who begs Angelo to release Claudio in Measure for Measure?
a).Vincentio
b).Lucio
c).Isabella
d).Juliet
10.Duke has pretended to leave town but instead dresses as a ______to observe the conditions of his absence.
a).Angelo
b).Friar
c).A peasant
d).A horse man
11.Who has entered Angelo’s place to satisfy him instead of Isabella who is asked by Angelo intercourse with him ?
a).Mariana
b).Lucio
c).Francesca
d).Juliet
12.A character and his / her fate leads the way to drag the story from beginning to end, in case the audience or the author has removed his or her role in this play, there is a difficult to find plot in Measure for Measure. Who is the prominent character in this play?
a).Vincentio, The Duke
b).Angelo
c).Claudio
d).Isabella
13.To whom did Duke grant the temporary leadership of ________? in Measure for Measure?
a).Isabella , Claudio
b).Angelo , Vienna
c).Claudio , Vienna
d).Angelo, Norway
14.Whose order is that to capture Claudio and taken him into prison in Measure for Measure?
a).Pompey
b).Vincentio, the Duke
c).Angelo
d).Escalus
15.Whose soliloquy ‘Dost thou desire her foully for those things that make her good? Oh, let her brother live’ in Measure for Measure?
a).Duke Vincentio
b).Angelo
c).Lucio
d).Julliet
16.Who gave advice to Isabella as she begs for Angelo to have mercy on Claudio?
a).Elbow
b).The Duke Vincentio
c).Lucio
d).Froth
17.Who said ‘I had rather give my body than my soul’ in Measure for Measure?
a).Isabella
b).Juliet
c).Mariana
d).Mistress Overdone
18.Who blackmailed Isabella in Measure for Measure?
a).Duke Vincentio
b).Angelo
c).Lucio
d).Julliet
19.How does Isabella respond when Angelo asks her to lose her virginity with him at first time?
a).She accepts very first time
b).She replied I will come tomorrow
c).She would rather die
d).She slap him
20.Who describes to Duke how life is more frightening than death in Measure for Measure?
a).Lucio
b).Angelo
c).Claudio
d).Isabella
21.‘Death is a fearful thing’ Who says this quote and who is the listener ?
a).Angelo says to Claudio
b).Claudio says to Isabella
c).Isabella says to Lucio
d).Angelo says to Isabella
22.Who has overheard the conversation of Isabella and Claudio, when Isabella said Claudio what was Angelo’s demand to release him?
a).Angelo
b).The Duke
c).Provost
d).Mariana
23.How does Mariana lost her dowry, as well as her engagement with Angelo broke of due to this dowry in Measure for Measure?
a).A person has stolen
b).Angelo taken and hide the dowry to break off the engagement
c).She lost in shipwreck
d).She lost in a mob
24.Who gave the idea to Isabella to send Mariana instead of Isabella to sacrifice Angelo?
a).Claudio
b).The Duke
c).Lucio
d).Mariana
25.‘Triumvirate’ means
a). a group of two men holding power
b). a group of three men holding power
c).Share the power to all according to law
d).A group of three men joining to board a school
26.Where does Cleopatra’s palace situated in Antony and Cleopatra?
a).Lipidia
b).Argentina
c).Alexandria
d).Austria
27.What was intoxicated to Antony to lose his caring with his wife and dishonest to ruling power
a).Cleopatra’s love
b).Drinking alcoholic
c).A Soothsayer’s curse
d).Antony’s insanity of Egypt
28.Who got married with Caesar’s sister, Octavia, in Antony and Cleopatra?
a).Antony
b).Enobarbus
c).M. Aemilius Lepidus
d).Sextus Pompeius
29.To whom did Antony ask to slay him in Antony and Cleopatra?
a).Domitius Enobarbus
b).Eros
c).Decretas
d).Cleopatra
30.Who brings Antony's bloody sword to Caesar in after Antony’s suicide attempt?
a).Domitius Enobarbus
b).Eros
c).Decretas
d).Cleopatra
31.Who pulled the sword from Antony’s wound after Antony killed himself?
a).Domitius Enobarbus
b).Eros
c).Decretas
d).Cleopatra
32.According to Freytag’s Pyramid, ‘Cleopatra abandons Antony during the second naval battle, leaving him to suffer an insurmountable defeat’ is indicated to ________.
a).Rising Action
b).Climax
c).Falling Action
d).Denouement
33.Whose quote is ‘I dreamt there was an emperor Antony.Oh, such another sleep, that I might see But such another man!’?
a).Cleopatra
b).Dolabella
c).Fulvia
d).Octavia
34.Who is nicknamed as Henry Percy
a).Hal
b).Prince Harry
c).Hotspur
d).Sir John Falstaff
35.At the beginning of the play, how does Henry feel about Harry?
a).Proud
b).Disappointed
c).Indifferent
d).Fearful
36.Choose the wrong match of character and characteristics.
a).Hal - son of King Henry IV
b).Hotspur - son of Percy
c).John of Lancaster - son of King Henry IV
d).Earl Of Westmoreland - Hotspur’s uncle
37.King Henry IV is a _______ play
a).Historical
b).Tragedy
c).Revenge
d).Comedy
38.Who has married Glyndwr's daughter in Henry IV – i?
a).Price Hal
b).King Henry
c).Mortimer
d).Hotspur
39.Who is the another one of these characters and suitable for this group, Edward Poins, Peto and _________.
a).Francis
b).Bardolph
c).Glyndwr
d).Hotspur
40.How does Falstaff survive the battle?
a).By fighting fiercely
b).By playing dead
c).By hiding underwater
d).By fleeing to France
41.Who is the daughter of Alonso in The Tempest?
a).Claribel
b).Miranda
c).Juno
d).Sycorax
42.Who told Miranda about her past, who is she, how did she reach the island?
a).Caliban
b).Iris
c).Prospero
d).Gonzalo
43.Who helps Prospero and his daughter, and leaves supplies and some magic books ?
a). Francisco
b).Adrian
c).Trinculo
d).Gonzalo
44.who is a captive servant to Prospero?
a).Ferdinand
b).Trinculo
c).Ariel
d).Adrian
45.Who usurped the dukedom of Milan from his brother Prospero, while Prospero was absorbed in study?
a).Antonio
b).Alonso
c).Sebastian
d).Gonzalo
46.Who imprisoned Ariel in a tree before Prospero came to the island?
a).Caliban
b).Sycorax
c).Necromancy
d).Ceres
47.Who induces Sebastian to become the ruler of Naples?
a).Antonio
b).Alonso
c).Prospero
d).Gonzalo
48.Who is king of Naples in The Tempest?
a).Antonio
b).Alonso
c).Prospero
d).Gonzalo
49.Who are the three appear in Prospero’s betrothal masque for Miranda and Ferdinand?
a).Juno, Ceres, Una
b).Juno, Ceres, Diana
c).Juno, Caliban, Iris
d).Juno, Ceres, Iris
50.In which act Juno, Ceres and Iris appear in Prospero's betrothal masque for Miranda and Ferdinand ?
a).Act II
b).Act III
c).Act IV
d).Act V
51.Who is the goddess of the rainbow?
a).Juno
b).Iris
c).Ceres
d).Una
52.‘A freckled whelp hag-born—not honored with a human shape’ who described Caliban as this in the play The Tempest?
a).Prospero
b).Ariel
c).Sycorax
d).Caliban himself
53.Who sings the song ‘I shall no more to sea, to sea,Here shall I die ashore’ in The Tempest?
a).Stephano
b).Trinculo
c).Ferdinand
d).Caliban
54.Who is referred as mooncalf in The Tempest?
a).Stephano
b).Trinculo
c).Ferdinand
d).Caliban
55.Caliban is _______.
a).Half man and half fish
b).Half man and half ant
c).Half man and half monkey
d).Half man and half horse
56.With whom does Duncan arrives to Inverness before he was murdered __________
a).Malcolm
b).Macduff
c).Donalbain
d).Banquo
57.Who told Macbeth that he would only be a man when he carried out Duncan’s murder?
a).Banquo
b).Lady Macbeth
c).Macbeth’s soliloquy
d).Macduff
58.‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ this line appeared in _____
a).Antony and Cleopatra
b).Tempest
c).Henry IV
d).Macbeth
59.The word ‘weird’ derives from the old English word ‘wyrd’. It means _____
a).Witch
b).Sin
c).Fate
d).Hell
60.‘Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and / fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty.’ Who stated this line in Macbeth?
a).Macbeth
b).Lady Macduff
c).Lady Macbeth
d).Three Witches
61.Lady Macbeth stated, ‘come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.’ What is the meaning for ‘unsex’?
a).Save women from sex
b).Don’t try to rape
c).Reject the feminity
d).Reject the manly thoughts
62.Who murders the King Duncan in Macbeth Act 2?
a).Macbeth
b).Lady Macbeth
c).Banquo
d).Duncan’s Body guards
63.Who mourns ‘will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ clean from my hand’?
a).Macbeth
b).Lady Macbeth
c).Duncan
d).Macduff
64.Which of the following character is not attend Macbeth’s feast where Banquo’s ghost appear and the ghost disturbed Macbeth.(i) Macduff, (ii) Fleance, (iii) Lady Macbeth, (iv) Lennox, (v) Ross.
a).III, IV, V
b).I , V
c).II , IV
d).I, II
65.What did Macbeth say when the quest urge Macbeth to sit and eat with them in the banquet?
a).The table is full
b).Waiting for Lady Macbeth
c).Banquo is murdered so I don’t want
d).This banquet is only for you
66.Who announced the death of Lady Macbeth?
a).Seyton
b).Macbeth
c).Siward
d).Macduff
67.Who is murdered by Macbeth?, Macbeth thought he must have been ‘born of woman’.
a).Young Siward
b).Mentieth
c).Caithness
d).Angus
68.Name of the play in which Shakespeare and Fletcher collaborated, it was published in quarto in 1634
a).Henry VIII
b).Griselda
c).The Two Noble Kinsmen
d).The Maid’s Tragedy
69.The first printed collection of William Shakespeare’s plays was brought out by Heming and Condell who asserted that they did the work in order to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive. What is this first edition now called?
a).Heming and Condell’s Edition
b).Everyman’s Shakespeare
c).First Folio
d).Authentic Shakespeare
70.Which of the following books marks the beginning of Shakespeare’s success ?
a).Love’s Labour Lost
b).The Merchant of Venice
c).Venus and Adonis
d).Sonnets
71.Name of the theatre in which Shakespeare had shares.
a).The Blackfriars
b).The Theatre
c).The Universe
d).The Rose
72.Shakespeare depended primarily on two sources for his legendary and historical plays. Which is the most important one?
a).King Arthur’s legend
b).Holinshed’s Chronicles
c).Plutrarch’s Lives
d).Legends of Charlemagne
73.Queen Elizabeth is said to desire to see Falstaff in love. So at her behest Shakespeare wrote a comedy entitled.
a).Henry IV – i
b).Comedy of Errors
c).Merry Wives of Windsor
d).Taming of the Shrew
74.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has and epilogue?
a).The Tempest
b).Henry IV part I
c).Hamlet
d).Twelfth Night
75.Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counsellor
a).Alonso
b).Ariel
c).Gonzalo
d).Stephano
76.Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in
a).1600
b).1610
c).1620
d).1623
77.Sidney’s Arcadia is drawn by Shakespeare in
a).King Lear
b).Macbeth
c).The Tempest
d).The Winter’s Tale
78.Shakespeare was born in
a).1550
b).1505
c).1510
d).1564
79.Shakespeare died in
a).1600
b).1616
c).1623
d).1625
80.Bard of Avon is _________
a).Christopher Marlowe
b).John Shakespeare
c).William Shakespeare
d).King James I
81. Which of the following traits do Harry and Hotspur have in common?
Age
Love for Kate
Quick temper
Sexual promiscuity
82. Whom does the Earl of Douglas kill?
King Henry
Sir John Falstaff
Prince Hal
Sir Walter Blunt
83. What is the last vision that the witches show Macbeth?
A procession of bloody corpses
A procession of eight kings
Macduff's head
A stain on his hand
84. Who warns Lady Macduff to leave her house?
A weird sister
Malcolm
A messenger
Macduff
85. Which of these characters is aware of the Duke's disguise before the end?
Friar Thomas
Angelo
The provost
Isabella
86. Who convinces Isabella to advocate for her brother?
Claudio himself
Lucio
The provost
The duke, in disguise
87. Who is the speaker of the epilogue in The Tempest, and to whom is it addressed?
Alonso , the entire party
Prospero, the audience
Ariel, the audience
Prospero, Miranda
88. Which of the following is NOT a major theme of The Tempest?
Rebirth through love
Political legitimacy
Forgiveness vs. Vengeance
New colonial issues
89. Who has planned to kill Duncan in Macbeth?
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Thane of Lochaber
Banquo
90. Which of Huxley’s novels has borrowed its title from a phrase occurring in Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’?
After many a summer
Time must stope
A Brave New World
Caliban’s Treachery