All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s__________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. He had heard this destruction of the original possessors of the soil described, as we find it in the history of the times, where, we are told, “the number destroyed was about four hundred;” and “it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and the horrible scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God.” This work is___________?

   A. A hortatory sermon
   B. A historial novel
   C. Gothic fiction
   D. A narrative frame

2. “not of an age, but for all time”-was told about Shakespeare by whom ?

   A. Marlowe
   B. Ben Johnson
   C. King Henry
   D. John Milton

3. ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s__________________?

   A. The Wasteland
   B. The Hollow men
   C. East Coker
   D. Prufrock

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. Miniver scorned the gold he sought. Here gold refers to______________?

   A. the yellow metal
   B. paycheck or money
   C. materialism
   D. the pot of luck

10. Fill in the blank. In Shakespeare’s plays, prose is often used in_________________?

    A. Serious letters
    B. Iambic pentameter
    C. Rhyming verse
    D. Couplets