Shakespeare quizzes and study tips for learning about his plays, act by act.
Nearly 1200 quizzes and dozens of study tips.
Take a quiz. Get your score. Use the study tips to build your knowledge.
For each act of each play, choose from three levels of difficulty – Easy, Medium or Hard.
Our Easy quizzes test your knowledge a play's character list, scene locations, which characters say what, and the meanings of Shakespearean words that we no longer use.
Our Medium quizzes test your knowledge of Shakespeare’s descriptive language, among other things.
Our Hard quizzes test your knowledge of longer quotes and obscure facts from an act.
Choose from quizzes on twenty of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays:
- Antony and Cleopatra (73 quizzes)
- As You Like It (61 quizzes)
- Coriolanus (65 quizzes)
- The Comedy of Errors (56 quizzes)
- Hamlet (67 quizzes)
- Henry V (59 quizzes)
- Julius Caesar (59 quizzes)
- King Lear (70 quizzes)
- Macbeth (46 quizzes)
- Measure for Measure (58 quizzes)
- The Merchant of Venice (67 quizzes)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (63 quizzes)
- Much Ado About Nothing (61 quizzes)
- Othello (67 quizzes)
- Richard III (59 quizzes)
- Romeo and Juliet (47 quizzes)
- The Taming of the Shrew (70 quizzes)
- The Tempest (36 quizzes)
- Twelfth Night (53 quizzes)
- The Winter’s Tale (57 quizzes)
Happy learning!