Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of Shakespeare’s play features Sir John Falstaff ?

   A. The merry wives of Windsor
   B. Troilus and Cressida
   C. King John
   D. Titus Andronicus

2. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?

   A. courtly ideals of the good life
   B. carpe diem
   C. loyalty to the king
   D. pious devotion to religious virtues

3. The character of Falstaff is important in which play(s) by William Shakespeare ?

   A. “Henry IV, Part I”
   B. “Henry IV, Part II”
   C. “Titus Andronicus”
   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. Which of the following playwrights is thought to have had the greatest influence on Shakespeare ?

   A. Ben Johnson
   B. Christopher Marlow
   C. Philip Sidney
   D. Thomas Kyd

8. William Shakespeare was______________ child of John and Mary?

   A. second
   B. fourth
   C. third
   D. fifth

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