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Hamlet’s famous speech “To be, or not to be; that is the question” occurs in?
Act III, Scene I
Act III, Scene III
Act IV, Scene III
Act II, Scene I
William Shakespeare is not the author of:
Hamlet
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Titus Andronicus
Which character spoke the following lines?
“What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.”
Desdemona
Hero
Rosalind
Juliet
What is the name of the play that Hamlet stages for Claudius?
Slings and Arrows
The Slaying of Lucianus
Vice of Kings
The Murder of Gonzago
“To be or not to be that is the question” is a famous line from which of Shakespeare’s plays?
King Lear
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
Which is the last play written by William Shakespeare?
Henry V
As You Like It
The Tempest
Two Gentlemen from Verona
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Dick Whittington
Thomas Lancaster
King Richard II
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1582
1564
1544
1578
Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
The Celts
The Anglo-Saxons
The Normans
The Geats
Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?
Fortinbras
Horatio
Laertes
Polonius
How are Polonius and Laertes related?
Brother/brother
Father/son
Cousin/cousin
Uncle/nephew
William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at the age of ____ in ____?
18, 1582
15, 1579
17, 1581
16, 1580
____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies.
Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
How many children did Shakespeare have?
8
5
12
3
When did Daniel Defoe die?
5 January 1740
7 December 1725
26 April 1731
12 September 1748
Words from which language began to enter the English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
Norwegian
Spanish
Hungarian
French
Though Beowulf was introduced by the Angles, the events and ____ are Scandinavian.
God
Characters
Belief
Idea
Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
Eminent Victorians, The Way of All Flesh
Eminent Victorians
Jungle Books
Philistine Victorians
The Way of All Flesh
Vanity Fair is a novel by?
W. M. Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
Jane Austen
Who got Daniel Defoe released?
Oliver Cromwell
Robert Harley
James Robert Oaklay
Alexander Selkirk
Which of the following novels has the subtitle “A Novel Without a Hero”?
Vanity Fair
Oliver Twist
Middlemarch
Wuthering Heights
Which of the following books was written by Daniel Defoe?
Odyssey
Robinson Crusoe
Either Or
Gulliver’s Travels
What was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?
Neighbour
Foe
Friend
Good
Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel “Great Expectations”?
Direct or epic method
Stream of Consciousness technique
Autobiographical method
Documentary method
A Red, Red Rose is a:
Lyric
Satirical poem
Ode
Epic
Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
Paganism
Buddhism
Protestantism
Catholicism
In which rebellion was Daniel Defoe involved?
Sioux
Mapla
Boxer
Monmouth
Where was Oscar Wilde born?
Cork
Glasgow
Dublin
London
Which poem written by Daniel Defoe made him popular with William III?
The True Born Englishman
Moll Flanders
Captain Jack
Hymn to the Pillory
Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968?
The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos, the emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists, the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
The emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies