Ann Hathaway was____________years older than Shakespeare?

Related Mcqs:

1. At what age of did William Shakespeare marry Anne Hathaway ?

   A. 18
   B. 22
   C. 19
   D. 23

2. He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_____________in______________?

   A. 18, 1582
   B. 17, 1581
   C. 16, 1580
   D. 15, 1579

3. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?

   A. supernatural phenomenon
   B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
   C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
   D. all of the above

4. According to skeptics of Shakespeare’s authorship, all of the following are considered to be the “true” authors of some of Shakespeare’s plays EXCEPT________________?

   A. Thomas More.
   B. Francis Bacon.
   C. Earl of Oxford.
   D. John Shakespeare.

5. In his reading of Shakespeare’s “Fair Youth Sonnets,” who does Charlton Ogburn suppose Shakespeare to have really been ?

   A. Marlowe
   B. Swift
   C. Oxford
   D. Bacon

6. Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is___________________?

   A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
   B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
   C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
   D. None of the above

7. According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?

   A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
   B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
   C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
   D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt.

8. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?

   A. The Taming of the Shrew
   B. As you Like it
   C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
   D. Titus Andronicus

9. The older term used to designate the study of languages is____________?

   A. Philology
   B. Haplology
   C. Phonology
   D. Semiology

10. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more __________but less ___________ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound?

    A. popular; reverenced
    B. brash; confident
    C. radical; inventive
    D. anxious; haunting