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Shakespeare Mastery Quiz
Check how much you know about Shakespeare’s plays, characters, and background in this easy general quiz
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Category: Shakespeare Quiz
1) Shakespeare was baptized on ________ at Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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2) William Shakespeare died in ______.
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3) When was the First Folio of Shakespeare’s works published?
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4) Shakespeare’s birth is traditionally celebrated on _________, which is also known to have been the date of his death.
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5) Who among the following was NOT one of Shakespeare’s three children?
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6) Which feminist wrote Shakespeare’s Wife (2007), a biography of Anne Hathaway?
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7) Shakespeare’s father, John Shakespeare, was _________.
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8) What was the name of Shakespeare’s mother?
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9) Which play of Edward Bond depicts the last years of Shakespeare?
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10) Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, was ________ his senior.
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Literary Quiz Part 1
A quick and engaging quiz that tests your knowledge of famous authors, classic books, literary terms, and timeless stories.
Category: Literary
1) Simon Winchester’s The Professor and the Madman tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary(OED). The ‘professor’ in the title refers to
Explanation
D) James Murray
Sir James Murray was a Scottish lexicographer and the first editor of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, which is now known as The Oxford English Dictionary.
2) Which Victorian novelist wrote Sketches by Boz (1833–36)?
A) Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
Boz was a pen name used by Dickens. Interestingly, Hablot Knight Browne, the illustrator of Boz’s (Dickens’s) novels, assumed a pseudonym ‘Phiz’, rhyming with Boz. Nevertheless, Sketches by Boz was illustrated by George Cruikshank
3) Which of the following is a four-line poem?
D) Clerihew
Sonnet – 14 lines; Villanelle – 19 lines; Limerick – 5 lines
4) The term ___________ was coined by Mikhail Bakhtin.
D) Heteroglossia
Differance – by Jacques Derrida; Intertextuality – by Julia Kristeva; Ecriture feminine – by Helene Cixous
5) Find the WRONG playwright–play pair:
D) Athol Fugard — Life of Galileo
Life of Galileo was by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
Athol Fugard was a South African playwright known for his 1961 play Blood Knot.
6) Which of the following novels was NOT written by the German-born Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse?
C) The Tin Drum
The novel The Tin Drum (1959) was written by the German writer Günter Grass and it is part of his Danzig Trilogy which includes Cat and Mouse (1961), Dog Years (1963).
7) Who wrote “Granita”, a parody of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita?
D) Umberto Eco
The parody “Granita” appears in the Italian writer Eco’s Misreadings.
8) The suffixes ‘-ize’, ‘-ful’ are _______ morphemes.
B) derivational
Derivational morphemes (prefixes and suffixes) are used to derive new words from content words. E.g. terror (n) + -ise = terrorise (v)
9) What is the rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet?
D)abab bcbc cdcd ee
A variant of Shakespearean Sonnet is ‘Spenserian sonnet’ whose three quatrains are linked through connecting rhymes with the rhyme scheme: abab bcbc cdcd ee.
10) Which of the following protagonists was NOT created by R. K. Narayan?
D) Balram
Balram Halwai is the protagonist of Aravind Adiga’s debut novel The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
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