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  • 1. 
    In which of the following plays by Shakespeare does the comic character Falstaff appear?

  • Richard III
  • Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2
  • As You Like It
  • Antony and Cleopatra

  • 2. 
    In which of the following plays by Shakespeare does the character Claudius appear?

  • Macbeth
  • King Lear
  • Hamlet
  • The Tempest

  • 3. 
    What is the name of the penniless Venetian who asks his friend for a loan in The Merchant of Venice?

  • Malvolio
  • Bassanio
  • Shylock
  • Antonio

  • 4. 
    Which was the first play on Roman themes written by Shakespeare?

  • Coriolanus
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Julius Caesar

  • 5. 
    In which of Shakespeare’s plays does the group of clowns Feste, Malvolio, Sir Toby Belch, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek appear?

  • Macbeth
  • Twelfth Night
  • As You Like it
  • Comedy of Errors

  • 6. 
    Which of these plays by Shakespeare uses a statue to reveal a most dramatic secret?

  • Timon of Athens
  • The Winter’s Tale
  • Hamlet
  • King Lear

  • 7. 
    In which play by Shakespeare do witches play an important role?

  • King Lear
  • Othello
  • Macbeth
  • Hamlet

  • 8. 
    Between whom does a “merry war” of words go on in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing?

  • Benedick and Beatrice
  • Hero and Claudio
  • Helena and Bertram
  • Hamlet and his mother

  • 9. 
    Which theatre was accidentally set alight by a cannon, fired to mark the king’s entrance onstage during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII in 1613?

  • Swan Theatre
  • Hope Theatre
  • Globe Theatre
  • Fortune Theatre

  • 10. 
    Which of the following poems was not written by William Shakespeare?

  • The Rape of Lucrece
  • Venus and Adonis
  • “The Phoenix and the Turtle”
  • The Prelude

  • 11. 
    Which play by Shakespeare opens with these words: “If music be the food of love, play on”?

  • Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • Twelfth Night
  • Hamlet
  • King Lear

  • 12. 
    Which historical character created by Shakespeare boasts that he can “set the murtherous Machevil to school”?

  • Richard, duke of Gloucester
  • Henry V
  • Richard II
  • Henry VI

  • 13. 
    The writings of which man acted as the main source of historical material for many Elizabethan playwrights?

  • Edward Hall
  • Henry Ellis
  • Sir Thomas North
  • Raphael Holinshed
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