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1
William Shakespeare died on his 52nd birthday.
False
True
2
What river did they float the theater across?
Thames
Tim's
Avon
Ohio
3
Shakespeare married _______________
Mary Arden
Cleopatra
Cressida
Anne Hathaway
4
What is Shakespeare's sobriquet?
The Boss
Slick Willy
The Bard
The Great Word Smith
5
A play from Shakespeare's retirement period.
King Lear
None of the Above.
Richard III
Macbeth
6
King James was a descendant of
Banquo
John Shakespeare
Henry Condell
Hamlet
7
Guy Fawkes and his buddies got ________ barrels into the basement of Parliament.
36
63
336
2
8
A reason why King James would have found Macbeth most interesting.
set in Scotland
All of the Above
witches
Banquo
9
What caused Shakespeare to concentrate on poetry in 1592?
He forgot how to write plays.
He fell in love.
The plague closed all of the theaters.
He grew tired of making money.
10
All of these plays were written by Shakespeare except
Death of a Salesman
The Comedy of Errors
The Winter's Tale
Pericles
11
Some scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote his first play when he was four years old.
False
True
12
What was the first work that Shakespeare published?
Venus and Adonis
Sonnets
The Rape of Lucrece
Love's Labour's Lost
13
A play from Shakespeare's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre " period.
Titus Andronicus
All's Well That End's Well
The Tempest
Henry V
14
What was the name of the acting company that James I sponsored?
Lord Chamberlain's Men
Shakespeare's Boys
Thespians R Us
The King's Men
15
People who believe that someone other than Shakespeare wrote his plays are called _______________.
Oxfordians
Stratfordians
delusional
Lanuginous
16
Christopher Columbus claims America for Spain.
1616
1519
1942
1492
17
John Shakespeare was granted a coat of arms in 1560.
False
True
18
Anne Hathaway was pregnant when she married William Shakespeare.
True
False
19
What was the name of England's first permanent theater?
The Swan Theater
The Theater
The Globe Theater
The Rose Theater
20
King James was a devout Catholic.
True
False
21
When England defeated the Spanish Armada, it started the
Discovery Channel
Elizabethan Era
Age of Discovery
Norman conquest of 1066
22
A play from Shakespeare's greatest time period.
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
All of the above
23
Which ruler killed close to 300 Protestants and what is the name of the refreshing drink named after her?
None of the above.
Queen Mary
Bloody Mary
Both Triangle and Diamond
24
Shakespeare graduated from Oxford in 1580.
True
False
25
Queen Elizabeth is famous for
having the Bible translated.
her love of witch hunting.
None of the Above
being from Scotland.
26
1558
Elizabeth is crowned Queen of England.
John Shakespeare is denied a coat of arms.
Hamnet and Judith are born.
William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.
27
1588
England defeats the Spanish Armada.
England's first permanent theater opens.
Shakespeare dies.
The First Folio is published.
28
Under ________ leadership, Parliament closed all of the theaters in England in 1642.
Puritan
Protestant
Catholic
Methodist
29
William Shakespeare was part owner of the Globe Theater.
False
True
30
What are the names of the twins?
Hamnet and Julie
Hamnet and Judith
Susanna and Hamnet
Hamlet and Judith
31
What stopped Shakespeare's "slasher" career?
Robert Greene
Christopher Marlowe
Queen Elizabeth
The Plague
32
Called Shakespeare an upstart crow.
Phillip the 2
Robert Greene
Queen Elizabeth
King James
33
John Shakespeare was fined for having a dunghill in his backyard.
False
True
34
A play from Shakespeare's first period.
Othello
Titus Andronicus
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
35
Shakespeare bought his wife the biggest house in Stratford in 1597.
True
False
36
Shakespeare was born in ___________.
London
Both Triangle and Circle
Stratford
Stratford-upon-Avon
37
Shakespeare's plays can be divided into
all of the above
histories
comedies
tragedies
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1616
Shakespeare died.
His retirement period began.
The Gunpowder plot occurred.
Globe Theater burnt to the ground.
