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WorksheetsShakespeare
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 17mins
True or False? All poems rhyme.
True
False
True or False? Prose is a type of poetry.
True
False
True or False? Shakespeare's plays are always rooted in reality. No supernatural elements here!
True
False
What is the rhyme scheme of the following verse?
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
ABAB
ABBA
AABB
ABCD
How many lines does a sonnet have?
10
12
14
20
How many syllables does iambic pentameter have?
5
10
15
20
What was Shakespeare's theater called?
The Lord Chamberlain's Men
The Globe Theater
Stratford-upon-Avon
Londontown
How many acts did Shakespeare's plays have?
1
2
3
5
What is NOT a category for a Shakespeare plays?
Tragedy
Comedy
History
Mystery
Which of the following plays is NOT considered a tragedy?
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Which of the following plays is NOT considered a comedy?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Twelfth Night
Othello
As You Like It
What usually happens at the end of a Shakespearean comedy?
The main character dies.
The army is victorious.
A performance of a play within a play.
A wedding.
Which of the following plays is considered a history?
Hamlet
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Richard III
Finish the line! "To thine own self be ______"
Funny
Kind
Smart
True
Finish the line! "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your _______"
Philosophy
Morals
Mind
Life
Finish the line! "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks/It is the east and ______ is the sun"
Romeo
Juliet
Hamlet
Emilia
Finish the line! "Something ______ this way comes"
Amazing
Horrible
Evil
Wicked
Finish the line! "Double double toil and _______"
Trouble
Witches
Macbeth
Hardship
Finish the line! "If music be the _______ of love, play on"
Life
Happiness
Drink
Food
Finish the line! "Now is the _____ of our discontent"
Fall
Winter
Spring
Summer
Finish the line! "My mistress's eyes are nothing like _______"
The sky
The stars
The sun
The moon
