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William Shakespeare

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Where was W. Shakespeare born?
a)
London
b)
Birmingham
c)
Stratford-upon-Avon
2.
Who did he marry?
a)
Anne Hathaway
b)

Jane Austen

3.
What was his theatre called?
a)
the Globe
b)
the Earth
c)
the circle
4.

He worked as an actor

a)

False

b)

True

5.

William Shakespeare wrote...

a)

songs and plays

b)

poems and plays

c)

poems and songs

d)

only plays

6.

True or False:


Fashionable, Gnarled, Disheartened, Puking, and Swagger are all words that were invented by William Shakespeare.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

What are his short poems called?

a)

sonnets

b)

short poems

c)

poettes

8.

Sonnets are poems of 14 lines

a)

False

b)

True

9.

What kind of plays did he write?

a)

comedies

b)

tragedies and comedies

c)

tragedies, comedies and histories

10.

Did women act in his plays?

a)

Yes

b)

No

11.

What famous Disney movie is based off of William Shakespeare's Hamlet?

a)

The Little Mermaid

b)

Aladdin

c)

Beauty and the Beast

d)

The Lion King

12.

"To be or not to be, that is the question". These lines are from

a)

Romeo and Juliet

b)

Macbeth

c)

Hamlet

d)

The King of Lear

13.

Shakespeare's play about one of the English kings is called...

a)

Hamlet

b)

The King of Lear

c)

Henry V

d)

Macbeth

14.

The name of Shakespeare's play where a very jealous husband kills his wife is...

a)

Hamlet

b)

Romeo and Juliet

c)

Macbeth

d)

Othello

15.

The name of Shakespeare's play where a young man and a girl love each other but cannot be together because of their families, is...

a)

Hamlet

b)

Macbeth

c)

Romeo and Juliet

d)

The King of Lear