Shakespeare specifics

How well did you know Bill?

 If you took our Shakespeare quiz, it's time to 

see how you fared. 

We hope the quiz was not all Greek to you, that you don't feel hoodwinked, had too much of a good thing, 

or been in a pickle . 

The truth will out as the answers have not 

vanished into thin air, but rather, 

as good luck would have it, are below.

1. When was William Shakespeare born?  Stratford  How old was he when he died? 52

2. How many plays 37 or 38   and sonnets  154  did Shakespeare write? 

3. Which is the only Shakespeare play to come in three parts?  Henry V!

4. How did Juliet die?

   She stabbed herself after realizing  Romeo was dead from poison her ingested from her lips

5. What did Shakespeare leave his wife in his will?

An unfinished  manuscript   The second best bed   A feathered quill   A letter from the Queen

6.What word is used to describe excessive admiration of Shakespeare?   

   Bardolatry

7. Which  Shakespearean character says “my words fly up, my thoughts remain below”?

    Claudius in Hamlet

8. Iago is the villain in which Shakespearean play?

    Othello            Hamlet            Taming of the shrew   All’s well that ends well

9. Julius Caesar  said this man had a “lean and hungry look”

     Brutus              Cassius                        Troilus

10. “Exit, pursued by a bear,” is a stage direction from which Shakespeare play?

        A winter’s tale             Cymbeline                   A comedy of  errors

11. What caused the fire that burned down Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in 1613?

      A theatrical cannon set off during  a performance of Henry VIII misfired into the

wooden beams and thatching of the building

12.Which Shakespearean comedy is set in the Forest of Arden?   

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