Shakespeare Quiz

1.  Who is associated with Romeo in one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays?
a) Falstaff
b) Juliet
c) Piers
d) Hamlet

2.  Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “My salad days, when I was green in judgment” come from?
a) Antony and Cleopatra
b) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
c) The Winters Tale
d) The Merry Wives of Windsor

3.  Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “For ever and a day” come from?
a) The Merry Wives of Windsor
b) The Winters Tale
c) As You Like It
d) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

4.  Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” come from?
a) Cymbeline
b) Hamlet
c) Titus Andronicus
d) Pericles, Prince of Tyre

5.  Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” come from?
a) King Lear
b) As You Like It
c) Henry VIII
d) The Life and Death of King John

6.  In what year was the First Folio published?
a) 1626
b) 1621
c) 1623
d) 1629

7.  In which of Shakespeare’s plays can you find the character of Lucentio?
a) The Taming of the Shrew
b) Coriolanus
c) The Merry Wives of Windsor
d) The Life and Death of King John

8.  In which of Shakespeare’s plays can you find the character of Ford?
a) The Comedy of Errors
b) The Taming of the Shrew
c) King Henry VI, Part III
d) The Merry Wives of Windsor

9.  In which of Shakespeare’s plays can you find the character of Helicanus?
a) Titus Andronicus
b) Julius Caesar
c) Pericles, Prince of Tyre
d) The Merry Wives of Windsor

Key: 1. b; 2. a; 3. c; 4. b; 5. a; 6. c; 7. a; 8. d; 9. c