Famous Quotes Quiz: Uncovering the Author of 'To be, or not to be'

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1. Who wrote the famous line 'To be, or not to be: that is the question'?

   • A. William Shakespeare
   • B. Christopher Marlowe
   • C. John Milton
   • D. Ben Jonson

2. In which play does the 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy appear?

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

3. Which character speaks the 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy?

   • A. Claudius
   • B. Polonius
   • C. Hamlet
   • D. Horatio

4. What is the opening line of Hamlet's most famous soliloquy?

   • A. To be, or not to be: that is the question
   • B. Now is the winter of our discontent
   • C. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
   • D. All the world's a stage

5. Which of the following quotes is NOT from Shakespeare?

   • A. To be, or not to be: that is the question
   • B. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
   • C. All the world's a stage
   • D. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

6. Hamlet is generally dated by scholars to around which year?

   • A. 1500
   • B. 1600
   • C. 1700
   • D. 1800

7. Which writer created the line 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'?

   • A. Tennessee Williams
   • B. William Shakespeare
   • C. Ernest Hemingway
   • D. F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. Who wrote the line 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?

   • A. Charles Dickens
   • B. Jane Austen
   • C. Leo Tolstoy
   • D. Victor Hugo

9. Which author wrote 'Call me Ishmael'?

   • A. Herman Melville
   • B. Mark Twain
   • C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
   • D. Edgar Allan Poe

10. Who said, 'The only way to do great work is to love what you do'?

    • A. Steve Jobs
    • B. Albert Einstein
    • C. Maya Angelou
    • D. Nelson Mandela