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WorksheetsShakespeare Quiz
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which of the following are the names of theaters associated with Shakespeare?
Globe and Blackfriars
Rose and Swan
Apollo and Lyceum
Royal and National
Who is the poet referred to in the lines: "Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclose here; Bleste be the man that spares those stones And curst be he that moves my bones"?
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
John Milton
Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare probably worked with someone in the two last parts of Henry VI and in Richard III. Who is he?
Marlowe
Ben Jonson
John Webster
Thomas Kyd
The Queen commanded Shakespeare to show Falstaff in love. Then Shakespeare wrote a play. Which one?
Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Hamlet
Who was Shakespeare's contemporary who wrote four books—The Wheel of Fire, The Imperial Theme, The Shakespearean Tempest, and The Crown of Life—on Shakespearean Criticism?
Ben Jonson
Wilson Knight
Christopher Marlowe
John Webster
About whom did Mathew Arnold write: "Others abide our question, thou art free"?
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
John Milton
Christopher Marlowe
Who is referred to in the following description: "Helen's cheek, but not her heart Cleopatra's majesty Atlanta's better part Sad Lucretia's modesty"?
Rosalind in As You Like It
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
Ophelia in Hamlet
Portia in The Merchant of Venice
Whose personality is being referred to in the lines: "Diana's lip Is not more smooth and rubious, thy small pipe Is as the maiden's organ shrill, and sound"?
Viola in Twelfth Night
Rosalind in As You Like It
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
Ophelia in Hamlet
Who is the speaker in the line: "I will do my best To woo your lady"?
Viola in the disguise of Cesario
Rosalind in As You Like It
Hamlet in Hamlet
Othello in Othello
