In Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis,” how is Adonis killed ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What literary genre is Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis” ?

   A. Short story
   B. Tragedy play
   C. Comedy play
   D. Poetry

2. To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ?

   A. Tragedies
   B. Historical Plays
   C. Narrative Poems
   D. Comedies

3. Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to________________?

   A. Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton
   B. Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of Southampton
   C. William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton
   D. Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of Southampton

4. Fill in the blank. The plot of “Venus and Adonis” is based on passages from_____________?

   A. The Bible
   B. A Christopher Marlowe play
   C. Ovid’s Metamorphoses
   D. An early Shakespeare play

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. Adonis is modeled on________________?

   A. Bion’s lament for Adonis
   B. Lycidas
   C. In Memoriam
   D. None of these

9. 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.

10. 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