In __________ year Shakespeare bought the largest house in Stratford, called New place ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Shakespeare made Stratford his regular home in ?

   A. About 1611
   B. About 1610
   C. About 1609
   D. About 1608

2. What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613 ?

   A. 51
   B. 49
   C. 52
   D. 53

   Updated by: Ammar Yaqoob

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Both Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow are thought to have been born in what year ?

   A. 1564
   B. 1580
   C. 1577
   D. 1550

9. Which year William Shakespeare was born ?

   A. 1564 AD
   B. 1773 AD
   C. 1809 AD
   D. 1923 AD

10. Which one of the following terms is often called for the England’s national poet, William Shakespeare ?

    A. Bard of London
    B. Bard of Avon
    C. Master Dramatist
    D. Supreme Poet