Elizabethan Literature - William Shakespeare – All the World’s a Stage Poem (As You Like It) - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

 

William Shakespeare – All the World’s a Stage Poem (As You Like It)

Objective Type Questions (Multiple Choice):

1. “All the world’s a stage” is from which play?

a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) As You Like It ✅
d) Othello

2. Who speaks the monologue “All the World’s a Stage”?

a) Orlando
b) Jacques ✅
c) Duke Senior
d) Touchstone

3. How many stages of life are described in the speech?

a) Five
b) Six
c) Seven ✅
d) Eight

4. The “whining schoolboy” carries—

a) Books
b) Satchel ✅
c) Scroll
d) Quill

5. The soldier seeks reputation “even in the—”

a) Court
b) Cannon’s mouth ✅
c) King’s palace
d) Temple

6. What happens in the final stage of life according to the speech?

a) Man becomes a hero
b) Man becomes a child again ✅
c) Man becomes king
d) Man dies as a warrior

7. “Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything”—refers to—

a) Childhood
b) Second childishness ✅
c) Justice
d) Soldier

8. The justice stage symbolizes—

a) Ambition
b) Maturity and wisdom ✅
c) Weakness
d) Romance

9. Shakespeare compares life to—

a) A journey
b) A dream
c) A stage ✅
d) A game

10. “All the world’s a stage” reflects on—

a) Love
b) Life’s transience ✅
c) War
d) Nature

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Dr. Noojilla Srinivas

Lecturer in English, Government College (Autonomous),

Rajahmundry

Phone: 7981862200