This document provides a quiz about William Shakespeare with 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge about his life, works, plays, and theaters. It covers facts like his birthdate, the plays he wrote, the theaters he performed in, and more. It also includes excerpts from his plays and sonnets.

1. William Shakespeare

2. Shakespeare Mind Map
What comes to mind when you think of William
Shakespeare? Work in groups and write your
ideas below:
William Shakespeare

3. Shakespeare Quiz
How much do you know about William
Shakespeare? Try this quiz to find out:
1) When was William Shakespeare born?
a) 1498
b) 1564
c) 1895

5. 2) In which period of English history was
Shakespeare alive?
a) Elizabethan
b) Georgian
c) Victorian

6. 3) Which of these plays was not written by
Shakespeare?
a) Hamlet
b) Romeo and Juliet
c) The Taming of the Rat

8. 4) Where was Shakespeare born?
a) Stratford Upon Avon
b) Cambridge
c) Oxford

9. 5) How many plays did Shakespeare write?
a) 8
b) 38
c) 108

10. 6) Which type of plays did Shakespeare
not write?
a) Tragedies
b) Comedies
c) Musicals

12. 7) What’s the name of the “Shakespeare
theatre’ in London?
a) The World Theatre
b) The Globe Theatre
c) The Old Shakespeare Theatre

13. 8) Who played Romeo in the 1996 film
version of “Romeo and Juliet’’?
a) Leonardo DiCaprio
b) Johnny Depp
c) Brad Pitt

15. 9) The names of Shakespeare’s mother
and father were:
a) Abraham and Sara
b) William and Anne
c) John and Mary

16. 10) Shakespeare attended the Stratford
Grammar School, also known as the
King’s New School:
a) From 1569 to 1579
b) He did not attend the school
c) There are no records of his school
attendance, but it is highly likely he
attended that school

17. 11) Who did Shakespeare marry?
a) Judith Sadler
b) Susanna Hall
c) Anne Hathaway
d) Mary Queen of Scots

19. 12) The London theaters were closed on
account of a virulent outbreak of the
plague in 1593 and part of 1594.
Specifically, what disease was this?
a) Tuberculosis
b) The Plague of Frogs
c) Bubonic Plague
d) The pox

20. • 13) Translate several of Shakespeare's plays:
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Comedy of Errors
• As You Like It
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Taming of The Shrew
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Twelfth Night
• King Lear

21. 14) The Most Famous Shakespeare’s Sayings
• To be or not to be: that is the question?
• All world’s a stage, and all the men & women
merely players.
• Every inch a king.
• Get thee to a nunnery.
• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
• All is well that ends well.
• The beginning of the end.
• Much ado about nothing.
• To win golden opinions.

22. 15) In 1594 Shakespeare became one of
the founding members of what acting
company?
a) The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
b) The King’s Men
c) The Royal Shakespeare Company

24. 16) In what year was the Globe Theater
built?
a) 1594
b) 1599
c) 1608
d) 1613

25. 17) Some time after 1599-1600 Shakespeare
turned from writing predominantly romantic
comedies and history plays to tragedies.
Which five plays are known as his “great
tragedies”?
a) Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and
Cleopatra.
b) The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Part 1, Henry
IV Part 2, Henry V, Twelfth Night.
c) King John, Henry IV Part 1, Richard II, Richard III,
Henry VIII.
d) Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida,
Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Cymbeline.

26. 18) In 1603 Shakespeare’s acting
company , The Lord Chamberlain’s
Men, became the King’s. Which king
was their patron?
a) George lll
b) James l
c) Edward lll
d) Henry Vlll

27. 19) In what year was the first collected
edition of Shakespeare’s plays, called
the First Folio, published?
a) 1599
b) 1616
c) 1623
d) 1685

28. 20) In what year did Shakespeare die?
a) 1599
b) 1616
c) 1623
d) 1642

30. Information gap reading
Student A
William Shakespeare was a poet and a playwright, and is widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He was
born in 1)_____________________, in central England, in 1564
and he died in 2)_______. His surviving work consists of 38 plays,
154 sonnets (a special type of poem with 14 lines), and some other
poems. He is best known for his 3) ______ which have been
translated into every major language and are performed more than
those of any other playwright in world. When William Shakespeare
was 18 years old he married 4)______________, and they had
three children. Shakespeare went to 5) ________ to work as an
actor and a writer. In 1599 the Globe Theatre was built in London
and it was in this theatre, situated on the banks of the River
Thames, that some of Shakespeare's plays were first performed. In
6) _______the theatre was destroyed by a fire. However, a modern
reconstruction of the theatre was built near the original site in 1997
so even today you can go to the Globe Theatre to see one of
Shakespeare's plays.

31. • Student B
William Shakespeare was a poet and a playwright, and is widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He was
born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in central England, in 1) _____ and he
died in 1616. His surviving work consists of 2)____ plays, 154
sonnets (a special type of poem with 14 lines), and some other
poems. He is best known for his plays which have been translated
into every major language and are performed more than those of
any other playwright in the world.
When William Shakespeare was 3) ______ years old he married
Anne Hathaway, and they had 4)_______ children. Shakespeare
went to London to work as an actor and a writer. In 5) ______ the
Globe Theatre was built in London and it was in this theatre, situated
on the banks of the River Thames, that some of Shakespeare's
plays were first performed. In 1613 the theatre was destroyed by a
6) ______. However, a modern reconstruction of the theatre was
built near the original site in 1997 so even today you can go to the
Globe Theatre to see one of Shakespeare's plays.

32. Find someone who
Talk to your classmates and try to complete the table.
Find someone who…
• …can name three of Shakespeare’s plays
• …has seen a film of a Shakespeare play
• …likes going to the theatre
• …would like to be a writer
• …would like to be an actor
• ….knows when Shakespeare was born
• ….whom William married
• …. can recite a sonnet by heart
• …..knows how many children he had
• …..when the writer died

33. Complete the Shakespeare quotes
1. All the world’s a stage a) nor a lender
be.
2. Love is blind b) that is the
question.
3. Neither a borrower c) what’s done is
done.
4. Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
d) and all the men and women are merely
players.
5. To be, or not to be: e) wherefore art thou
Romeo?
6. Things without remedy should be without regard;
f) never did run
smooth
7. The course of true love g) and lovers cannot
see.
8. O Romeo, Romeo! h) that I shall say good night till it be
morrow.