1. Which William Shakespeare’s tragedy is a tragedy of misanthropy?
(A) Hamlet
(B) Timon of Athens
(C) Othello
(D) King Lear
2. Imogen is a character in
(A) Cymbeline
(B) Coriolanus
(C) Tempest
(D) Pericles
3. Last plays of William Shakespeare are tragic-comedies and also known as
(A) Comedies
(B) Farces
(C) Tragedies
(D) Romances
4. Which play by William Shakespeare is known as autobiographical?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Cymbeline
(C) Pericles
(D) The Winter’s Tale
5. William Shakespeare was born in
(A) 1550
(B) 1505
(C) 1564
(D) 1510
6. Venus and Adonais and The Rape of Lucrece’ are
(A) Tragedies
(B) Love poems
(C) Comedies
(D) Novels
7. William Shakespeare passed away in
(A) 1616
(B) 1601
(C) 1610
(D) 1600
8. Life of William Shakespeare is the creation of
(A) Sidney Lee
(B) Philip Sidney
(C) Spenser
(D) Marlowe
9. Holinshed’s Chronicle was used by which Elizabethan dramatist?
(A) Heywood
(B) Marlowe
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) Dekker
10. William Shakespeare took hints from Spanish Tragedy in his
(A) Macbeth
(B) Hamlet
(C) Othello
(D) King Lear
11. Out of William Shakespeare’s 37 plays, _____ plays were published in quarto form.
(A) 12
(B) 15
(C) 16
(D) 20
12. William Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in
(A) 1600
(B) 1623
(C) 1620
(D) 1610
13. Who spoke, “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact”?
(A) Thisbey
(B) Bottom
(C) Pyramus
(D) Theseus
14. In which William Shakespearean play are all characters guilty?
(A) As You Like It
(B) Twelfth Night
(C) Measure for Measure
(D) All’s Well That Ends Well
15. The famous song, “Take, take those lips away” occurs in
(A) As You Like It
(B) Merchant of Venice
(C) Measure for Measure
(D) Much Ado About Nothing
16. Falstaff is a character in which of the following historical plays of William Shakespeare?
(A) Henry I
(B) Henry IV
(C) Henry VIII
(D) Henry V
17. According to ______, “It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.”
(A) Kent
(B) Edgar
(C) King Lear
(D) Fool
18. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves that we are underlings” are said by which of the following characters?
(A) Brutus
(B) Caesar
(C) Cassius
(D) None of these
19. Which Shakespearean play is a dramatization of a tale Chaucer presented in “The Knight’s Tale”?
(A) The Two Noble Kinsmen
(B) As You Like It
(C) The Merchant of Venice
(D) The Tempest
20. “Merry Wives” was written by William Shakespeare at the advice of ______.
(A) his father
(B) Queen Elizabeth
(C) his beloved
(D) his friend
21. Benedick and Beatrice appear in which of the following comedies by William Shakespeare?
(A) The Tempest
(B) The Winter’s Tale
(C) Much Ado About Nothing
(D) Pericles
22. Mythology, folklore, and magic find their way into William Shakespeare’s?
(A) Last plays
(B) Comedies
(C) Tragedies
(D) None of these
23. Which play of William Shakespeare ends without a climax?
(A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) Antony and Cleopatra
(C) Twelfth Night
(D) All’s Well That Ends Well
24. Which play of Ben Jonson is the most expansive of mature satiric comedies?
(A) The Poetaster
(B) Volpone
(C) The Silent Woman
(D) Bartholomew Fair
25. Sejanus and Catiline are moved by William Shakespeare’s
(A) The Taming of a Shrew
(B) Romeo and Juliet
(C) As You Like It
(D) Julius Caesar
26. Which comic character of William Shakespeare is famous for his knowledge and sense of understanding?
(A) Feste
(B) Bottom
(C) Fool
(D) Puck
27. Jonson’s drama, which is an unfinished pastoral drama, is
(A) The Staple of News
(B) The Tale of a Tub
(C) The Sad Shepherd
(D) The New Inn
28. Sidney’s Arcadia is drawn by William Shakespeare in
(A) The Winter’s Tale
(B) Macbeth
(C) King Lear (a tragedy)
(D) The Tempest
29. “Drink to me only with thine eyes” is the statement of __________.
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Milton
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) Marlowe
30. John Fletcher’s The Wild Goose Chase is a kind of Elizabethan version of Shaw’s:
(A) Pygmalion
(B) Candida
(C) Arms and the Man
(D) Man and Superman
31. Which play is widely recognized as Webster’s masterpiece?
(A) The Duchess of Malfi
(B) The Malcontent
(C) The White Devil
(D) The Devil’s Law Case
32. What did Middleton do that got him into trouble?
(A) The Changeling
(B) A Game of Chess
(C) The Old Law
(D) A Faire Quarrel
33. Massinger collaborated with Thomas Dekker in which play/novel?
(A) The Unnatural Combat
(B) The City Madam
(C) The Virgin Martyr
(D) Empire of the East
34. Which of Middleton’s plays is most known for its link with Macbeth rather than for its own merit?
(A) The Changeling
(B) The Old Law
(C) Witch
(D) A Trick to Catch the Old One
35. Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and A Trick to Catch the Old One are ______.
(A) Tragic
(B) Satirical comedies
(C) Tragedies
(D) Comedies
36. The title of the play A Woman Killed with Kindness is taken from a proverb quoted in which of the following?
(A) King Lear
(B) The Taming of the Shrew
(C) Macbeth
(D) The Tempest
37. Which of the following is the famous tragi-comedy of Middleton?
(A) The Family of Love
(B) Anything for a Quiet Life
(C) The Changeling
(D) A Trick to Catch the Old One
38. Who described Thomas Heywood as a sort of prose William Shakespeare?
(A) Johnson
(B) Charles Lamb (English essayist)
(C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(D) Middleton
39. Which is the most remarkable work of Thomas Middleton?
(A) Fair Maid of the West
(B) The English Traveller
(C) Arden of Feversham
(D) The Woman Killed with Kindness
40. In A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood, the author sounds a ______ note.
(A) Domestic
(B) Lyrical
(C) Satirical
(D) Comical