Classical Dramas MCQs For BS/MA/MS/M Phil...

How many children does Oedipus have ?
A 2
B 4
C. 8
D. 5
Answer B
What does the name “Oedipus” mean? A incest monger
B Swollen foot
C. Blinded by fate D king of Thebes
Answer B
Which of the three Theban plays was probably written first? A No one knows
B Oedipus the king
C Oedipus at colonus
D. Antigone Answer. D
Jocasta convinced the oedipus to creon
A. Abandon
B forgive
C kill
D None of these
Answer. B
Laius was killed? A in jail
B in his bath
C at crossroads
DNone of these
Answer C
What is Creon relationship to Jocasta?
 A brother
B uncle
C sin
D Father Answer A
Who does the chorus leader say should reveal the murdered? A Oedipus
B Laius C Apollo
D Creon
Answer c
Which of the following deaths occur onstage?
A Oedipus
B Jocasta
C None of these deaths occour onstage
D Antigone
Answer. C
The answer to riddle of the Sphinx is?
A Apollo B man
C God
D. All of the above
Answer. B
How many of the Sophocles 125 play survived?
A 130
B 100
C 10
D. 7
Answer. D
Sophocles wrote plays during the course of his life?
A 123
B 124
C 125
D. 126
Answer A
Multiple Choice Questions “Classical Dramas”
Sophocles was born in ?
A Athens
B Thebes
C Rhodes 
 D None
ANSWER ' A'
Sophcles is said to have been educated by the musician?
A Tanseen
B Lamprus
C Dryden
D Aristotle
ANSWER 'B'
Sophocles married ?
A Nicostrata
B Anne
C Lucy
D Marry
ANSWER 'A'
Sophocles had a son named?
A Goerge
B Lophon
C Marlowe
D Oedipus
ANSWER 'B'
Sophocles entered the contest at age of? A 18
B 28
C 30
D 25
ANSWER 'B'
Sophocles passed away in ?
A 406BC
B 408BC
C 410BC
D 412 BC
ANSWER 'A'
Sophocles was favorite of?
A Athenians
B Thebens
C B & C
D None ANSWER ' A'
“Oedipus at Colonus” is play of Sophocles?
A First
B Last
C Unpublished D None
ANSWER 'B'
Sophocles served in the defence of his country more than ?
A Once
B Twice
C Thrice
D None ANSWER 'A' 
 Sophocles served as priest of ?
A Christ
B Aschelepius
C Dionysus
D All ANSWER ‘B’
Sophocles was born in:
a) 495 B.C
b) 496 B.C
c) 486 B.C
d) 490 B.C
Answer : B
How many plays Sophocles wrote:
a) 23
b) 126
c) 123
d) 75
Answer : C
How many plays of Sophocles survived:
a) 10
b) 8
c) 7
d) 5
Answer : C
The most famous tragedies of Sophocles are:
a) Ajax and Electra
b) Antigone and Ajax
c) Electra and Antigone
d) Oedipus and Antigone
Answer: D
Sophocles was one of the three :
a) French Tragedians
b) American Tragedians
c) Greek Tragedians
d) British Tragedians
Answer : C
Oedipus and Antigone are also known as:
a) Theban plays
b) Athen plays
c) Colonus plays
d) None of these
Answer: A
Oedipus the king, first presented by Sophocles about :
a) 341 B.C
b) 420 B.C
 c) 425 B.C
d) 427 B.C
Answer : D
Antigone is presented by Sophocles about:
a) 444 B.C
b) 446 B.C
c) 440 B.C
d) 441 B.C
Answer : D
Greek tragedy declined after the death of Euripides and :
a) Aeschylus
b) Sophocles
c) Aristotle
d) Plato
Answer : B
Sophocles passed away in :
a) 408 B.C
b) 406 B.C
c) 404 B.C
d) 410 B.C
Answer : B
Sophocles was a native of colonus. He was born.
(a) 486 B. C
(b) 490 B. C
(c) 493 B. C
(d) 496 B. C
Sophocles is believed to have written for
(a) Sixty year
(b) Sixty five years
(c) Seventy years
(d) Seventy five years
Contented among the living contented among the death who said these words about Sophocles?
(a) Herodouts
(b) Aeschylus
(c) Aristophanes (d) Euripides
How many of the dramas by sophocles have been preserved?
(a) 7
(b) 10
(c) 20 o
(d) 25
 Sophocles has said to have written more than.
(a) 20 plays
(b) 50 plays
(c) 100 plays
(d) 120 plays
Oedipus killed his father and married his mother
(a) Out of sadistic pleasure
(b) In ignorance
(c) Deliberately
(d) None of above
Saphocles firstly married to.
(a) Nicostrata
(b) Jocasta
(c) Merry
(d) None of these
Oedipus fate move us only because it might have Been our own. Who said these words?
(a) J. A cuddon
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) Sophocles himself
(d) None of these
Sophocles died on
(a) 407 B. C
(b) 406 B. C
(c) 408 B. C
(d) None of these
In the world of Greek theater who was the king ?
A Christopher
B Dr. Johnson
C Sophocles
D Dryden
Answer “C”
Sophocles won the first prize at the Athenian festival’
A Eighteenth Times
B Two Times
C Ten Times 
D Nineteenth Times Ans B
Sophocles was involved with the affairs of Athenian democracy,
A Social
B Political & Military
C Economic
D Public
Answer “B”
Sophocles wrote Plays & only of Which have survived,
A 123, 7
B 120, 8
C 290, 10
D 200, 34
Answer “A”
In his play Triptolemus took first prize for tragedy
A 1342 B.C
B 1456 B.C
C 1468 B.C
D 1476 B.C
Answer “C”
Sophocles also served as a
A Priest
B Monk
C Summoner
D Head Of Church
Answer “A”
Sophocles won perhaps as many as victories ,
A 26
B 27
C 24
D 6
Answer “C”
Sophocles increased the size of the Chorus from
A 14 to 17
B 12 to 15
C 15 to 18
D 10 to 12
Answer “B” 
 Sophocles` major innovation was his introduction of a into the dramatic performance,
A Music
B Pain
C Third Actor
D Comedy
Answer “C”
Philoctetes was first performed in 409 when Sophocles was years old
A 50
B 87
C 79
D 90
Answer “D”
The best known of Sophocles` 123 dramas is,
A Oedipus The King
B Philoctetes
C Electra
D Trachinian Women
Answer “A”
William Shakespeare’s life
William Shakespeare was born in
A. 26 April 1564
B.23 April 1566
C. 24 April 1567
D. 26 April 1565 Answer : B
Shakespeare married with Anna Hathaway in the age of
A. 17 years
B. 18 years
C. 19 years
D. 20 years Answer: B
William Shakespeare retired to Stratford around 1613 at the age of
A. 55 years
B. 56 years
C. 49 years
D. 60 years Answer : C
How many plays that Shakespeare wrote?
A. 33
B. 35
C. 37
D. 38 Answer :D
How many Sonnets that Shakespeare wrote.
A. 154
B. 155
C. 156
D. 157
Answer (A)
William Shakespeare is often called the National Poet of
A. Turkey
B. Greek
C. America
D. England Answer (D)
The first recorded work of Shakespeare is…………
A. Richard I
B. Richard II
C. Richard III
D. Richard IV Answer (C)
This period begins and ends with Tragedies.
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
Answer (C)
In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major …………..
A. Dramas
B. Poems C.Text
D. Plays Answer (D)
Who was called an England's national poet?
(A) John Donne
(B) Chaucer
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Robert Green Answer: C
How many years of Shakespeare's life are called "Lost Years"?
(A) 20 years
(B) 10 years
(C) 5 years
(D) 7 years Answer: D
How many plays were written by Shakespeare?
(A) 15 
 (B) 37
(C) 154
(D) 20 Answer: B
What type of play "Hamlet" is?
(A) Comedy
(B) Tragicomedy
(C) Tragedy
(D) History Answer: A
Shakespeare's early plays were almost:
(A) Comedies
(B) Tragedies
(C) Tragicomedies
(D) Historians Answer: D
What was Shakespeare's Father name ?
(A) John Shakespeare
(B) Gilbert Shakespeare
(C) Edmund Shakespeare
(D) John Answer: A
Shakespeare was ?
(A) Poet
(B) Actor
(C ) Dramatist
(D) All Answer: D
Shakespeare’s works include plays printed in first Folio of 1623:-
A. 34
B. 36
C. 38
D. 40 Answer: B
How many plays not included in first Folio?
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. One Answer: A
Shakespeare married at the age of?
(A) 17
(B) 18
(C) 19
(D) 20
Answer: B 
 Shakespeare appears to have retired to Stratford around:-
(A)1513 (B)1731 (C)1613 (D)1316
Answer: C
Shakespeare wrote until about 1608 including Hamlet etc.
(A)Tragedies (B)Histories (C)Genres (D)Comedies Answer: A
Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway was year old?
(A) 18
(B) 20
(C) 24
(D) 26
Answer: D
Mary Arden was? (A)Shakespeare’s mother (B)Shakespeare’s friend (C)Shakespeare’s Aunt (D)Shakespeare’s teacher
Answer: A
Who was Shakespeare friend in 1623?
(A) Sidney
(b) John Hemingway
(c) Henry condell
(d) a and b Answer: D
Why were theaters closed ?
(A) Due to plague
(b) war
(c) peace
(d) all Answer: A
How many snnets of Shakespeare?
(A)36
(b) 45
(c) 46
(d) 154 Answer:D
How many plays of Shakespeare?
(A) 36
(b) 16
(c) 3
(d) no one in these Answer:A
What was the name of Shakespeare mother?
(A) Mary Arden
(b) Arden
(c) biddy
(d) no one in these Answer:A
When did Shakespeare marry?
 A) in the age 18
(b) 16age
(c) 50 age
(d) no in these Answer: A
What was the name of Shakespeare elder sister?
(A) Witty (B)marry (C)biddy (D)Susana Answer: D
Where did he build theater?
(A) in itlay
(b) in India ( c) England
(D) south bank of the river Answer: D
In what century was William Shakespeare active as a playwright?
A. 15
th century
B. 16th century
C. 17th century
D. B & C Answer. D
How many plays do we know that Shakespeare wrote?
A. 11
B. 25
C. 38
D. 32 Answer. C
How old was Shakespeare when he died?
A. 47 years old
B. 52 years old
C. 57 years old
D. 60 years old Answer. B
During his life time, Shakespeare wrote a total of
A. 28 plays and 144 sonnets
B. 38 plays and 154 sonnets
C. 20 plays and 160 sonnets
D. 10 plays and 169 sonnets Answer. B
How old was Shakespeare when he married Anne Hathaway?
A. 18 years old
B. 19 years old
C. 20 years old
D. 25 years old Answer. A
William and Anne (Susanna) and also
A. Twins
B. Triplets 
 C. Single
D. Forth Answer: A
The dates of Shakespeare’s life put him firmly in the middle of which musical period.
A. Medieval
B. Renaissance
C. Baroques
D. Classical Answer. B
When a major character in a Shakespeare play sings, it is most likely because
A. They are suffering from mental illness.
B. They are in love.
C. They are in entertaining.
D. They are in happiness. Answer. A
William shakespeare was born on 26 april, .
(a) 1563
(b) 1564
(c) 1464
(d) 1465
Answer: B
Published in ,the sonnets were the last of shakespear's non-dramatic works to be printed.
(a) 1609
(b) 1610
(c) 1611
(d) 1612
Answer: A
Shakespeare's first plays were written in the style of the day.
(a) Traditional
(b) Conventional
(c) Ordinary
(d) radical Answer: B
Shakespeare combined poetic Genius with a practical sense of the .
(a) theatre
(b) Drama
(c) Troupe
(D) None of these Answer: A
Shakespeare's works include the plays printed in the first folio of 1623
(a) 35
(b) 36
(c) 30
(d) 27 Answer: B
Shakespeare his time between london and stratford during his career.
(a) Divided
(b) Connected
(c) Combined
(d) Attached ANSWER: A
At the age of 18, Shakespeare married the years old Anne Hathaway.
(a) 24
(b) 25
(c) 26
(d) 27 ANSWER: C
What was the name of Shakespeare’s daughter ?
(A) Elizabeth (B)Katherine (C)Austin (D)Susanna Answer: D
Shakespeare’s wife was older than him ?
(A)5 years (B)3 years (C)8 years (D)2 years Answer: C
Shakespeare’s was also ? (A)Successful doctor (B)Successful businessman (C)Successful teacher (D)Successful farmer
Answer:B
Shakespeare’s father in law was ?
(A)merchant (B)teacher (C)farmer (D)Doctor Answer: C
Shakespeare’s was arrested in?
(A)1590 (B)1595 (C)1580 (D)1585
Answer : D
Shakespeare was ?
(A) The third child of John and Mary (B)The first child of John and Mary (C)The second child of John and Mary (D)The
fourth child of John and Mary Answer: A
Shakespeare’s had established himself in loud as an actor and dramatist by ? (A)1595
(B)1597 (C)1592 (D)1590
Answer:C
Several plays of William Shakespeare were on London stage by ?
(a)1599 (b)1892 (c)1592 (D)1662
Answer: C
The death of Elizabeth in
(a)1606 (b)1605 (c)1805 (d)1603
Answer: D
The comony was awarded a regart patent by new king james 1 and changed his name to the
(a) king of boys (b)king of women (C)King of men (d)both a and b Answer: C
Green’s attack in the earlist surviving mention of shakespears career
(a)in the stadium (b)in th hall
(c)in the theatre (D)None of these Answer: C
Shakespear ‘s career may have begun any time from the mid of
(a)1584 (b)1580 (c)1581 (d)1500
Answer: B 
Is there is a monument of shakespeare in Stratford today?
A. True
B. False
C. Testify
D. Non of these Answer : A
Was the Globe?
A. A Roman amphitheatre
B. An Elizabetan theater
C. An Elizabethan sports Stadium
D. A famous map of the World Answer: B
Shakespeare’s works include the plays printed in the First Folio.
A .36
B .36
C .36
D .46
Answer: (A)
Two plays not included in the First Folio.
A. The Two Noble Kinsmen and Pericles,
B. Prince of Tyre C.A, B
D.None of these Answer: C
Biography of Marlowe
1:Christopher Marlowe was a:
a:poet b:playwright c:Auther d:Both a and b Answer D
2:Christopher Marlowe was the fore front of the dramatic renaissance.
a:16 century b:14 century c:18 century d:15 century Answer A
3:Christopher Marlowe's litrary career lasted less then .
a:Five year b:six year c:two year d:seven year Answer . B
4:Christopher Marlowe life only .
a:29 years b:30 years c:24 years d:34 years Answer A
5:His Tragical History include .
a:Hamlet b:paradis lost c:Oidepex rex d:Dr Faustus Answer D
6. Where was Christopher marlowe born?
A)Ealing B)Anatolia
C) Canterbury D)London Answer C
7. When did Marlowe get his bachelor of arts degree?
A)1484 B)1584 C)1684 D)1678
Answer B
8. From which school christopher Marlowe was awarded a scholarship? 
  A)Prince'school B)Queen's school
C)king's school D)None Answer C
9. Christopher Marlowe was born in...?
A)1564 B)1664 C)1764 D)1765
Answer A
10. In which college Christopher marlowe studied in 1580 to 1587?
A) Corpus christi college
B) Alabama college
C) Besancon college D)None
Answer A
11. Marlowe was a spy, here spy means :
A) Undercover agent
B) Screte agent
C) Dramatist
D) Both A & B Ans : D
12. Marlowe was serving government and it was clearly suggested by :
A) His neighbour
B) Friend's letter
C) Councel's letter
D) His servant Ans : C
13. Dinning room accounts indicate that Marlowe spent lavishly on :
A) Food and drink
B) His family
C) His friends
D) His Servants Ans : A
14. After attaining his master's degree Marlowe moved to?
A) London
B) india
C) England
D) Italy Ans: A
15. Marlowe had become a secret agent working for?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) sir Francis Walsingham's
C) Shakespeare
D) Johnson Ans: B
16. Marlowe in writing and probably also engaging himself
a)America b)London c)Australia d)England Answer B
17. Dido,Queen of Carthage thought to be his:
a) Second Play 
b) First Play
c) Second last Play
d) Last Play Answer B
18. Queen of carthage was not pulished until
a)1599 b)1586
c)1594 d)1590
Answer C
19. The play was performed by the children of chapel between
a)1587 and 1593
b)1566 and 1587
c)1572 and1587
d)1585 and 1587 Answer A
20. Marlowe moved to London in
a) 1578 b)1587 c)1590 d)1602
Answer B
21. Marlowe's second play is named as :
A) Tamburlaine the Great
B) Jew of Malta
C) Doctor Fausts
D) Edward the Second Ans : A
22. Tamburlaine is a play in blank verse performed on regular stage in :
A) China
B) Australia
C) Landon
D) Italy Ans :C
23. The play Doctor Fausts was performed as first in :
A) 1604
B) 1678
C) 1516
D) 1216
Ans : A
24. The Jew of Malta was performed at last in :
A) 1604
B) 2020
C) 1521 D)1633
Ans : D
25. When Marlowe was died, Elizabethan theater was :
A) Ruined
B) Closed 
C) in beginning of mature phase
D) None of these Ans : C
26 . When university hesitated in granting Marlowe his master’s degree? A) 1584
B) 1587
C) 1590 D)1598
Ans B
27. Which council sent letter about Christopher Marlowe
A. Union council
B. Privy Council C.City Council
D. None Ans B
28. Cambridge Records show that Marlowe had several absences from
A) School B)College C)University D)a&b both
Ans C
29. After Moving to Marlowe took up writing
A) Australia B)England C)Canada D)London Ans D
30. Marlowe wrote only plays after Tamburlain
A)2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
Ans C
31. Marlowe wrote only four plays after Tamburlain from
A) 1589 to 1592
B) 1560 to 1565
C) 1568 to 1577
D) 1580 to 1589
Ans A
32. The historical Edward the Second is a play about deposition of :
A) Edward III
B) Edward II
C) Edward I
D) None of these Ans : B
33. Edward II was the king of :
A) Italy
B) France
C) China
D) England Ans : D
34. Of whose plays' text can be relaibly said to represent author's manuscript :
A) Shakespeare 
 B) Lyly
C) Marlowe
D) John Donne Ans : C
35. Edward the Second paved the way of Shakespeare's more mature histories such as :
A) Richard II
B) Henry IV
C) Henry V
D) All of them Ans : D
36. Of whose plays were heavily edited and texts were lost to the ages :
A) Richard II
B) Aristotle
C) Marlowe
D) Plato Ans : C
37. Edward the Second is a
A) Film B)Tragedy
C) failure D)None Ans B
38. Edward the Second is a tragedy which features a
A) Powerful Monarch
B) Furious Monarch
C) Weak and Flawed monarch
D) a & b both Ans C
39. which is the most famous play of Marlowe's
(a) Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus
B) Hamlet
C) Oedipus Rex
D) None of these Ans (a)
40. In the end, who is finally seems to repent for his deeds?
A) Dr Faustus
B) Devilish
C) Angles
D) Non of these Ans ) a
41. who collects his soul, and it is clear that Faustus exits to hell with him?
(a) Mephistopheles
(b) Marlowe
(c) crewn
(d) none of these Ans (a)
42. Most of Marlowe’s plays has survived in
A) Good form
b) Real form
C) Corrupt form 
 D) B & C both Ans C
43. who ignores the angel's advice.?
A) Marlowe
B) devilish
C) God
D) Dr fustus Ans (d)
44. In doctor Faustus man sells his
A) Home
B) Kidney
C) Car
D) Soul Ans D
45. Man sell his soul for
A) Money B)Knowledge & power C)Friend
D)nothing Ans B
46. Rumors of Marlowe's atheism sunday
a)April 20,1593
b)May 20,1593
c)july 20,1593
d)August 20,1593 Ans B
47 . Marlowe was arrested for just that
a)business b)crime c)as a killer
d)none of these Ans B
48.Marlowe was killed by ingram frizer on
a) june 30
b) December 30
c) May 30
d) August 30 Ans C
49 .Marlowe was stabbed in
a)Nose b)forehead
c)neck d)arm Ans B
50.A fight broke out between Marlowe and Frizer over the
a)Rent b)bill c)text
d) both a .b Ans B
51. 1) Who wrote the massacre at Paris
a) Shakespeare
b) Marlowe
c) Sydney
d) none of these Ans B
52) The most neglected play of Marlowe is 
 a) the Jeo of Malta
b) Doctor Faustus
c) the massacre at Paris
d) Edward Il Ans C
53) the massacre at Paris is a
a) short and lurid work
b) long work
c) most famous work
d) great work Ans A
54) Massacre portrays the event of the saint Bartholomew's day massacre of
a)1562 b)1572 c)1582
d)1592
Ans B
55) Interestingly the warning comes from a character referred to as
a) English Agent
b) French Agent
c) Roman Agent
d) Turkish Agent Ans A
56. Barabbas is the richest man on all the Island of :
A) Malta
B) Europe
C) Turkey
D) None of the these Ans : A
57. The Jew of Malta is considered as the
A) Black comedy
B) Tragicomedy
C) Funny comedy
D) Both A & B Ans : D
58. In the play , to regain the seized wealth Barabbas fights with:
A) College Dean
B) Friends
C) Government
D) Father Ans : C
59. 1..Jew of Malta's death at the hands of -------------
a)Robber b)police c)Maltese solders d)Army
Ans C
60. In Jew of malta Main character name was
A) Henry
B) Barabas
C) Fielding 
 D) Marlowe Ans B
All Scene
1. Marlow lived during:
a. the eighteen century
b. the sixteenth century
c. the fifteenth century
d. the fourteenth century Answer. B
2. The Tragic history of Doctor Faustus was written in:
a. 1601
b. 1602
c. 1556
d. the 1580-90s Answer. D
3. Marlowe's most notable contemporary was:
a. William Shakespeare
b. Daniel Webster
c. John Milton
d. Hermam Melville Answer. A
4. Marlowe's first play was:
a. the jew of Malta
b. Dido, queen of cartage
c. Tamburlaine, Part I
d. Dr. Faustus Answer. C
5. Dr Faustus is a scholar from:
a. England
b. Germany
c. Italy
d. France Answer. B
6. Who was Wagner
A servant B master C devil
D None ANSWER A
7. Prince of devil is
A Wagner B lucifer C clown
D Robin ANSWER B
8. Who learn some basic conjuring
A Robin B rate
C a and b both D None ANSWER C
9. Old man appears in the
A first scene B mid scene C final scene D None
ANSWER C
Knight was the
10.A emperor’s court…. 
 B devil
C servant
D good angel ANSWER A
11. The devil Faustus summons is
(a)Mephostophilis (b)Lucifer (c)Satan (d)Beelzebub Ans...A
12. What is the name of the ruler of hell in doctor Faustus?
(a)Satan (b)Mephostophilis (c)Lucifer (d)Beelzebub Ans... C
13. Faustus in exchange for his demands, must give up
(a)his property (b)his soul (c)his heritage (d)his money Ans..B
14. Faustus is advised by (a)Good Angel and Evil Angel (b)an old woman
(c)a council of elders (d)Jesus
Ans...A
15. What does Mephostophilis refuse to tell Faustus?
(a)If Faustus will be damned (b)How many planets there are (c)Where hell is located (d)Who made the world?
Ans...D
16. The clown is ?
A. rich
B. Poor
C . Orphan
D. None Ans. B
17. Wagner converses with a ?
A. Faustus
B. Angels
C. Clown
D. None of these Ans. C
18. Who becomes terrified and agree?
A. Clown
B. Wagner demands
C. Faustus
D. Angels Ans. B
19. Who sent devil's?
A. Wagner
B. Clown
C. Fastus
D. None of these Ans. A
20. Wagner said to clown become a servant for ?
A. Five years
B. Seven years
C. Six years
D. Eight years Ans. B 
 21. Faustus enters with some.....
A scholar B servants C police
D None ANSWER A
22. Mephastopilis what is saying about fatus if he does not reconfirm his vov to Lucifer
A threatens to shred B giving gift
C kill
C b and c D None ANSWER A
23. Who says faustus to repent
A old man B scholar C lucifer D all
ANSWER A
24. Who was Martino and frederick
A Faustus friends B knight friends C benvoil
D rate friends ANSWER C
25. Who order to mephastopilis threatens to shred to pieces
A Lucifer B scholar
C evil angel D None ANSWER A
26. What did benvolio remarked about Dr Faustus?
A. Faustus looks like what he expected
B. Faustus did not act like a conjurer what benvolio expected
C. Faustus cheers up devil's will
D. None Answer B
27. Who transferred the knight into a stag
A. Bruno B benvolio
C goddess Diana D Alexander God Answer C
28. Why did Faustus conjures a pure of horns into the head of Knight?
A Because he aimed to warn benvolio to respect scholars B To cheer up devil
C He wanted to simply amaze people D None
Answer: A
29. How did benvolio take renenge from faustus
A He cut off his hands B cut off head
C made him trapped D Kills him with sword Answer B
30. To whom faustus life belongs
A Alexander
B God
C Goddess Diana D Mephistopheles Answer D
31. Faustus meanwhile meets a and sells him horse.
A) horse and cohorse
B) course and horse
C) Lucifer
D) Both a and b Answer A
32. Faustus give the horse course a but warns him not ride the horse
A) GOOD price
B) bad price
C) Wagner  
 D) none of these Answer A
33. Faustus agrees to go and they depart..........
A) Together
B) not together
C) alone
D) none of these Answer A
34. Robin and rafe have stopped for a into tavern
A) drink
B) cold water
C) tea
D) none of these Answer A
35. The servant of Dr. Fastus
A) Wagner
B) Lucifer
C) a and b
D) none of these Answer A
36. In scene Two who does Wagner make fun of ?
(a) Valdez and Cornelius
(b) Faustus
(c) Two scholars
(d) God Ans C
37. What does Faustus order Mephastopilis to wear
(a) a king
(b) Monks robes
(c) scholars cap
(d) an artists smock Ans B
38. What does Mephastopilis say hopes to do to Faustus
(a) capture Faustus soul
(b) teach faustus magic
(c) obey Faustus
(d) scare Faustus Ans A
39. According to Mephastopilis what did Lucifer and devils used to be
(a) men
(b) fairies
(c) angels
(d) God's Ans C
40. What food does Wagner say the clown would probably sell his soul for
(a) joint of beef
(b) shoulder of mutton 
 (C) A WELL season trip
(d) large roast Ans B
41. What does Faustus wish he was so that upon death he would simply cease to be?
(A) A beast
(B) A Fairy
(C) A plant
(D) A play Answer A
42. Who tries to persuade Faustus to repent?
(A) An angel
(B) An old man
(C) Mephastopilis
(D) wagner Answer B
43. In scenes 13 as the clock strikes evelven what does Faustus see?
(A) A huge feast
(B) His family and friends (C)A vision of heaven
(D) A vision of hello Answer D
44. In the chorus what has faustus given to Wenger?
(A) All his wealth
(B) All his magic
(C) All his book
(D) All his secrets Answer A
45. Who asks Faustus to make Helen of Tory appear ?
(A) Wagner
(B) Mephastopilis
(C) One of the scholars
(D) Lucifer
Answer C
46. According to Mephastophilis, where is Hell located?
a)Under the earth b)Everywhere c)In the sun
d)In Norway Answer: B
47. When he first summons Mephastophilis, how does Faustus ask him to appear?
A) In the shape of a Franciscan friar
B) In the shape of a beautiful woman
C) As a winged creature with horns
D) As a handsome young man Answer : A
48. What is the name of the ruler of hell in Doctor Faustus?
A)Satan B)Mephastopilis C)Lucifer D)Beelzebub Answer: C
49. How long does Faustus demand that Mephastophilis serve him?
A)Thirty years B)Twenty-four years C)One hour
D)A century Answer: B 
50. What does Faustus offer in return for this service?
A) All his riches
B) The life of his first-born child C)Nothing
D)His soul Answer: D
51. How does Faustus sign his compact with Lucifer?
A) In his own blood
B) In the blood of a virgin
C) In ink produced in hell
D) He doesn’t
Answer: A
52. What pulled the chariot that look faustus through heaven?
(A) Dragons
(B) Horses
(C) Devils
(D) Doves Answer A
53. In the B ,text what do Faustus and Mephastophilis disguise themselves as when meeting the Pope?
(A) Swiss gurds
(B) Cordinals
(C) Angel's
(D) Bishop Answer B
54. Who was attempting to become Pope with the backing of the German emperor?
(A) Brutus
(B) Brono
(C) Brian
(D) Bertie
Answer B
55. What do Faustus and Mephastophilis do during the Pope dinner?
(A) Make themselves invisible
(B) Curse noisily
(C) Box the Pope's ear
(D) All the above Answer D
56. What have Robin rafe stolen from a raven?
(A) A cup
(B) A wine skin
(C) A knife
(D) A ham Answer A
57. What does the Good Angel urge Faustus to think about? 
a) Hell b)Heaven
c) His reputation
d) His life choices Answer: B
58. According to Mephastophilis, why does Lucifer want Faustus's soul?
a) To enlarge his kingdom
b) For fun
c) To make humans suffer
d) A and C and D Answer: A
59. What happens when Faustus tries to use his blood to write the deed?
a) He doesn't bleed
b) His blood congeals
c) He faints
d) The paper is ruined Answer: B
60. What does the inscription that appears on Faustus's arm ("Homo fuge") mean?
a) O man, cry
b) O man, walk
c) O man, sink
d) O man, fly
Summary Oedipus Rex
The priest is at the beginning of the play.
(a) Asking the gods for help
(b) Accusing Oedipus
(c) Asking Teiresias for help
(d) None of these Answer: a
The priest is doing this because .
(a) Oedipus asked him
(b) There is a plague on the city
(c) The Sphinx has attacked the city
(d) None of these Answer: b
At the beginning of the play, Oedipus sends Creon to .
(a) Corinth
(b) The Pythian Oracle
(c) Exile
(d) None of these Answer: a
Creon reported that .
(a) Teiresias killed Laius
(b) He will kill his father 
 (c) Laius’s killer must be found
(d) None of these
Answer: c
According to the report, the man, they will find, must .
(a) Become the next king
(b) Be sacrificed to the Sphinx
(c) Be banished or killed
(d) None of these Answer: c
No one investigated Laius’s murder at the time because .
(a) The Sphinx was attacking the city
(b) There was a plight on the city
(c) They didn’t want anyone to know that Oedipus did it(d) None of these Answer: a
Oedipus announced to the Theban people that .
(a) If any man confesses, he will only be banished
(b) He too will be punished if he helps the killer
(c) If anyone knows who killed Laius, he should come forward
(d) All of the above Answer: d
is rumoured to have killed Laius.
(a) Teiresias
(b) Jocasta
(c) Robbers
(d) None of these Answer: c
Creon advised Oedipus to send for .
(a) A Shepherd
(b) Teiresias
(c) The Sphinx
(d) None of theseAnswer: b
When Teiresias arrived, he said that .
(a) He will not tell who did it
(b) The Sphinx did it
(c) Jocasta did it
(d) None of these Answer: a
When Teiresias charged Oedipus with killing Laius, he responded by .
(a) Calling Teiresias a blind fool
(b) Accusing Creon of killing Laius
(c) Accusing Teiresias of conspiring with Creon
(d) All of the above Answer: d
According to Teiresias Oedipus will .
(a) Leave Thebes in triumph 
 (b) Marry Antigone
(c) Leave Thebes a blind beggar
(d) None of these Answer: c
What does Oedipus ask Creon?
(a) Why Teiresias conspired with the Sphinx
(b) Why Jocasta married Laius
(c) Why Teiresias didn’t say anything at the time of Laius’s death
(d) None of these Answer: c
Does Creon say he wants to be king?
(a) Yes
(b) Only if he can marry Jocasta
(c) No
(d) None of these Answer: c
Jocasta convinced Oedipus to to Creon.
(a) Abandon
(b) Kill
(c) Forgive
(d) None of these Answer: c
Jocasta attempts to prove to Oedipus that .
(a) There is no truth in prophesy
(b) Teiresias is really his father
(c) Creon killed Laius
(d) None of these Answer: a
Jocasta said that she .
(a) Sacrificed her baby on the altar of Athena
(b) Drowned her baby in the well
(c) Left her baby exposed on a mountain
(d) None of these Answer: c
Laius was killed .
(a) In jail
(b) In his bath
(c) At a crossroads
(d) None of these Answer: c
Jocasta’s story upset Oedipus because .
(a) His father was killed in a similar way
(b) He was a witness to this death
(c) He killed a man at a crossroads
(d) None of these Answer: c 
 What made Oedipus go to the oracle when he was young?
(a) A man called him a bastard
(b) Teiresias told him to
(c) Creon tried to kill him
(d) None of these Answer: a
The oracle told Oedipus that he .
(a) Should stay away from Thebes
(b) Would become blind
(c) Would kill his father and marry his mother
(d) None of these Answer: c
Oedipus left Corinth because he was .
(a) Summoned to kill the Sphinx
(b) Finding his real dad
(c) Afraid of what the oracle said
(d) None of these Answer: c
The next time Jocasta leaves the palace, she was .
(a) Killing her children
(b) Running away from Thebes
(c) Praying to the gods
(d) None of these Answer: c
What news does the messenger bring from Corinth?
(a) That Polybus was not Oedipus’s father
(b) That Corinth wants Oedipus to be its king
(c) That Polybus is dead
(d) All of the aboveAnswer: d
gave Oedipus to Polybus and Merope.
(a) The Sphinx
(b) Teiresias
(c) The messenger
(d) None of these Answer: c
Which of the three Theban plays was probably written last?
(a) Oedipus at Colonus
(b) No one knows
(c) Oedipus the King
(d) None of these Answer: a
Oedipus have children.
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4 
 (d) None of these Answer: c
In Oedipus the King, murder of must be avenged to end the plague in Thebes.
(a) Creon’s
(b) Polybus’s
(c) Laius’s
(d) None of these Answer: c
Of Oedipus’s children does not appear in Oedipus at Colonus. (a) Antigone
(b) Polynices
(c) Eteocles
(d) None of these Answer: c
Literal meaning of “Oedipus” is .
(a) “Incest-monger”
(b) “King of Thebes”
(c) “Swollen foot”
(d) None of these Answer: c
Which of the three plays was probably written first?
(a) No one knows
(b) Oedipus the King
(c) Antigone
(d) None of these Answer: c
Oedipus was raised in .
(a) Colonus
(b) Thebes
(c) Corinth
(d) None of these Answer: c
Teiresias does not appear in .
(a) Oedipus the King
(b) Antigone
(c) Oedipus at Colonus
(d) None of these Answer: c
What sentence does Creon impose upon Antigone for violating his edict prohibiting Polynices’ burial?
(a) She must be hanged.
(b) Her eyes must be stabbed out.
(c) She must be buried alive.
(d) None of these Answer: c
Creon’s is of Jocasta.
(a) Brother
(b) Father
(c) Son 
 (d) None of these Answer: a
Oedipus used to stab out his own eyes.
(a) Knives
(b) Sticks
(c) The brooches from Jocasta’s robe
(d) None of these Answer: c
Oedipus rescued Thebes from curse.
(a) The Sphinx’s
(b) Laius’s
(c) Apollo’s
(d) None of these Answer: a
speaks last in each of the Theban plays.
(a) Ismene
(b) Creon
(c) The Chorus
(d) None of these Answer: c
Antigone was meant to marry .
(a) Polynices
(b) Haemon(c) Eteocles
(d) None of these Answer: b
Athenian theatrical performances celebrated the god.
(a) Athena
(b) Zeus
(c) Dionysus
(d) None of these Answer: c
remains alive throughout the three Theban plays.
(a) Oedipus
(b) Creon
(c) Antigone
(d) Jocasta
Answer: b
Laius killed .
(a) On a one-lane bridge
(b) Between a rock and a hard place
(c) At a three-way crossroads
(d) None of these Answer: c
In Oedipus at Colonus, how does Creon attempt to coerce Oedipus to return to Thebes? 
 (a) He kidnaps his daughters.
(b) He bribes Theseus.
(c) He threatens war with Polynices.
(d) None of these Answer: a
Oedipus prophesied about Polynices and Eteocles that they will .
(a) Rule Thebes together.
(b) Die at each other’s hands.
(c) Be betrayed by Creon.
(d) None of theseAnswer: b
is the last remaining survivor of Oedipus’s family.
(a) Ismene
(b) Antigone
(c) Oedipus
(d) None of these Answer: a
Death of occurs onstage.
(a) Oedipus
(b) Jocasta
(c) Antigone
(d) None of these.
Answer: d
What does Creon do just before he finds Antigone dead?
(a) Banishes Teiresias
(b) Argues with his wife, Eurydice
(c) Gives Polynices a proper burial
(d) None of these Answer: c
helps Oedipus in Oedipus at Colon’s.
(a) Merope
(b) Polybus
(c) Theseus
(d) None of these Answer: c
does not commit suicide.
(a) Antigone
(b) Ismene
(c) Haemon
(d) None of these Answer: b
The woods, where Oedipus at Colonus takes place belong to .
(a) Euripides
(b) The Eumenides
(c) Eteocles 
 (d) None of these Answer: b
Who are Oedipus daughters
(a) Antigone and Ismene
(b) Jocasta and Etocles
(c) Etocles and Apollo
(d) Creon and Jocasta Answer :(a)
What does Oedipus use to stab out his own eyes?
(a) Knives
(b) Sticks
(c) the brooches from Jocasta robe
(d) the horns of a sacrificial bull Answer :(c)
How does Creon treat Oedipus?
(a) he gloats over his victory
(b) he banishes him
(c) he is angery with him
(d) he is kind to him Answer :(d)
What does Oedipus want to do in the last scene of the play?
(a) leave Thebes
(b) kill himself
(c) kill his children
(d) kill Creon Answer :(a)
Which of the following deaths occurs onstage?
(a) Oedipus
(b) Jocasta
(c) Antigone
(d) none of these deaths occurs onstage Answer :(d)
What does Oedipus call the people of Thebes?
(a) the gods'children
(b) the gods'creation
(c) his creation
(d) his children Answer : (d)
speaks last in each of the Theban plays.
(a) Ismene
(b) Creon
(c) The Chorus
(d) None of these Answer: c
Oedipus prophesied about Polynices and Eteocles that they will .
(a) Rule Thebes together. 
 (b) Die at each other’s hands.
(c) Be betrayed by Creon.
(d) None of these Answer: b
The writer of Oedipus Rex is
(a) Milton
(b) Sophocles
(C) Chaucer Answer:b Sophocles born in
(a) Colonus
(b) America
(C) Pakistan (d)India Answer a