English Literature and Grammar for TGT PGT By Rishi Sir

1. Which Shakespearean play begins with the line “If music be the food of love, play on”?

A. As You Like It
B. Twelfth Night
C. The Tempest
D. Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: B. Twelfth Night

2. Which character speaks the famous “All the world’s a stage” speech?

A. Hamlet
B. Prospero
C. Jaques
D. Antonio

Answer: C. Jaques

3. In which play does the character Autolycus appear?

A. The Winter’s Tale
B. Cymbeline
C. King Lear
D. Pericles

Answer: A. The Winter’s Tale

4. Which Shakespearean tragedy contains the line, “Ripeness is all”?

A. Macbeth
B. Hamlet
C. King Lear
D. Othello

Answer: C. King Lear

5. What is the subtitle of Twelfth Night?

A. The Green World
B. Love’s Victory
C. What You Will
D. The Masque of Love

Answer: C. What You Will

6. Which play is considered Shakespeare’s last complete play written independently?

A. The Tempest
B. Henry VIII
C. Cymbeline
D. The Winter’s Tale

Answer: A. The Tempest

7. Which Shakespearean character says, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”?

A. Gertrude
B. Ophelia
C. Desdemona
D. Portia

Answer: A. Gertrude

8. In which play do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern appear?

A. King Lear
B. Hamlet
C. Measure for Measure
D. Timon of Athens

Answer: B. Hamlet

9. Which play contains the character Sir Epicure Mammon?

A. Volpone
B. The Alchemist
C. Doctor Faustus
D. None of these

Answer: D. None of these
(He is from Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist, not Shakespeare.)

10. Shakespeare borrowed the plot of Romeo and Juliet mainly from:

A. Plutarch
B. Holinshed
C. Arthur Brooke
D. Thomas Kyd

Answer: C. Arthur Brooke

11. Which play contains the “Seven Ages of Man” speech?

A. As You Like It
B. Hamlet
C. King Lear
D. The Merchant of Venice

Answer: A. As You Like It

12. Which Shakespearean play is entirely written in verse?

A. The Tempest
B. Richard II
C. Macbeth
D. Hamlet

Answer: B. Richard II

13. What was the name of Shakespeare’s acting company after 1603?

A. Lord Chamberlain’s Men
B. King’s Men
C. Queen’s Men
D. Admiral’s Men

Answer: B. King’s Men

14. In Macbeth, who says “None of woman born shall harm Macbeth”?

A. The Apparitions
B. Banquo’s Ghost
C. The Witches
D. Hecate

Answer: A. The Apparitions

15. Which Shakespearean heroine disguises herself as a lawyer?

A. Rosalind
B. Viola
C. Portia
D. Imogen

Answer: C. Portia

16. Which play ends with the death of Cleopatra?

A. Julius Caesar
B. Antony and Cleopatra
C. Coriolanus
D. Troilus and Cressida

Answer: B. Antony and Cleopatra

17. The phrase “Et tu, Brute?” occurs in:

A. Hamlet
B. Macbeth
C. Julius Caesar
D. Titus Andronicus

Answer: C. Julius Caesar

18. Which Shakespearean character is associated with the line “Put out the light, and then put out the light”?

A. Macbeth
B. Lear
C. Othello
D. Brutus

Answer: C. Othello

19. Which play is classified as a “problem play”?

A. Measure for Measure
B. The Tempest
C. Richard III
D. King John

Answer: A. Measure for Measure

20. Shakespeare’s sonnets are primarily addressed to:

A. A Dark Lady and a Fair Youth
B. Anne Hathaway
C. Queen Elizabeth I
D. Emilia Lanier only

Answer: A. A Dark Lady and a Fair Youth