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Shakespeare

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What year was Shakespeare born?

a)

1592

b)

1616

c)

1558

d)

1564

2.

Shakespeare was born in...

a)

London

b)

Stratford-Upon-Avon

c)

Dover

d)

Baddesley Clinton

3.

What are the names of Shakespeare's mother and father?

a)

Matthew and Josephine

b)

William and Anne

c)

John and Mary

d)

Thomas and Marilla

4.

Who did Shakespeare marry?

a)

Judith Hathaway

b)

Susanna Hathaway

c)

Mary Hathaway

d)

Anne Hathaway

5.

Shakespeare and his wife had BLANK children

a)

3

b)

2

c)

5

d)

7

6.

When was The Globes Theatre built? (Shakespeare's theatre)

a)

1594

b)

1608

c)

1599

d)

1613

7.

What was the name of Shakespeare's acting company?

a)

The Queen's acting company

b)

The Kings actors

c)

The Lord Chamberlain's men

d)

The Kings acting company

8.

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? (a sonnet is a fourteen-line poem with a rhyme scheme)

a)

114

b)

202

c)

169

d)

154

9.

Which of these is NOT a Shakespeare play?

a)

The Silent Woman

b)

Twelfth Night

c)

Macbeth

d)

The Comedy of Errors

10.

Which play by Shakespeare has the famous quote: "to be or not to be, that is the question", in it?

a)

The King Lear

b)

Othello

c)

Hamlet

d)

Macbeth