SHAKESPEARE

              Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
                                                       Early life
              William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual date of birth remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day. This date, which can be traced back to an 18th-century scholar's mistake, has proved appealing to biographers, since Shakespeare died 23 April 1616. He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son.
               At the age of 18, Shakespeare married the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway. Six months after the marriage Anne gave birth to a daughter, Susanna, baptised 26 May 1583. Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596.
                   Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 and was survived by his wife and two daughters.  Susanna had married a physician, John Hall, in 1607, and Judith had married Thomas Quiney, a vintner, two months before Shakespeare’s death.

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01-Choose the correct sentence according to the text:
a)Susanna and Hamnet were twins
b)William Shakespeare died in london
c)Mary Arden was the mother of Anne Hathaway
d)Susanna had married a vintner
e)King's Men was a playing company
02-When William Shakespeare died he was ___________________years old.
a)fifty two        b)fifty three        c)fifty four       d)fifty five         e)fifty six
03-William Shakespeare's ________________was a wealthy farmer.
a)father            b)cousin                 c)brother         d)grandfather   e)great-grandfather
04-Check the correct alternative according to the text:
a)John Shakespeare was born in Snitterfield
b)William Shakespeare was a glover
c)Mary Arden was William Shakespeare's grandmother
d)Judith and Thomas Quiney got married in 1607
e)Susanna and John Hall got married two months before William Shakespeare's death
05-Mary Arden was Anne Hathaway's __________________.
a)mother-in-law     b)cousin       c)sister        d)niece       e)mother