A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quizzes

A Midsummer Night's Dream Quiz 1

By J. N. Smith · Last reviewed January 01, 2000

1 Where was Shakespeare from?

London

Stratford upon Avon

Edinburgh

Windsor
2 Besides a playwright, what other profession did Shakespeare have?

actor

counselor

farmer

lawyer
3 Shakespeare's father was a

glove-maker

courtier

blacksmith

exile
4 Who was Shakespeare's wife?

Amelia Lanyer

Margaret Cavendish

Anne Hathaway

Mary Sidney
5 Where were most of Shakespeare's plays performed?

The Globe

Whitefriars

The Rose

Blackfriars
6 Which of these playwrights was Shakespeare's contemporary?

Thomas Kyd

John Webster

Thomas Middleton

Christopher Marlowe
7 What is Shakespeare's nickname?

The Bard

The Ballad

The Beast

The Bird
8 When was the First Folio published?

1623

1609

1610

1616
9 Who famously said that Shakespeare was "not of an age, but for all time?"

Ben Jonson

Christopher Marlowe

John Milton

Andrew Marvell
10 Who was on the throne during the height of Shakespeare's career?

King Charles I

King Henry VIII

King James I

Queen Elizabeth I
11 Besides plays, Shakespeare also wrote

political pamphlets

prose tracts

poetry

meditations
12 Where did Shakespeare attend university?

Cambridge

He did not attend university.

St. Andrew's

Oxford
13 How many children did Shakespeare have?

four

two

none

three
14 What was the name of Shakespeare's son?

Benjamin

Hamnet

William

John
15 Scholars refer to the year 1585-1592 in Shakespeare's life as his

dark years

prime years

best years

lost years
16 Where did Shakespeare go after leaving his home?

Windsor

Italy

Ireland

London
17 What was the name of the house Shakespeare bought for his family?

St. Helena's Place

Bishop's Square

Thames Court

New Place
18 What major event caused the theaters to close during Shakespeare's life?

Essex Rebellion

English Civil War

bombing of parliament

bubonic plague
19 Which of these genres of plays did Shakespeare write?

tragedies

comedies

histories

All of these
20 Which of these is considered one of Shakespeare's "Roman plays?"

Romeo and Juliet

The Merchant of Venice

Julius Caesar

Macbeth
21 Shakespeare's plays are written mostly in

free verse

heroic couplets

prose

blank verse
22 Most of Shakespeare's plays contain

five acts

four acts

three acts

eight acts
23 Low-born characters in Shakespeare's plays speak in

prose

rhymed couplets

iambic pentameter

riddles
24 In which of these genres did Shakespeare not write?

city comedy

tragicomedy

sonnets

romance
25 When did Shakespeare die?

1609

1623

1599

1616

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