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Quiz about Shakespeare

Shakespeare Trivia Quiz


Name the play these quotes are from..

A multiple-choice quiz by awkins. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
awkins
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
3,423
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
7 / 15
Plays
2590
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Question 1 of 15
1. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. Fear no more the lightning flash, nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone. Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. O! the blood more stirs to rouse a lion than to start a hare. Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Let me have men about me that are fat. Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, when gold and silver becks me to come on. Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, unpleasing to a married ear. Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world. Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. The course of true love never did run smooth. Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. Thou deboshed fish thou. Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. A plague o' these pickled herring. Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. She is a woman, therefore may be won. Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. Corruption wins not more than honesty. Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. I am a man more sinned against than sinning. Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Answer: As You Like It

2. Fear no more the lightning flash, nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone.

Answer: Cymbeline

3. The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.

Answer: Hamlet

4. O! the blood more stirs to rouse a lion than to start a hare.

Answer: Henry IV, Part I

5. Let me have men about me that are fat.

Answer: Julius Caesar

6. Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, when gold and silver becks me to come on.

Answer: King John

7. Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, unpleasing to a married ear.

Answer: Love's Labour's Lost

8. By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.

Answer: The Merchant Of Venice

9. The course of true love never did run smooth.

Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream

10. Thou deboshed fish thou.

Answer: The Tempest

11. A plague o' these pickled herring.

Answer: Twelfth Night

12. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Answer: The Winter's Tale

13. She is a woman, therefore may be won.

Answer: Titus Andronicus

A similar line appears in 'Henry VI': "She is a woman, therefore to be won."
14. Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Answer: Henry VIII

15. I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Answer: King Lear

Source: Author awkins

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