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Sonnet 55 - Test
  • 1. In which year were William Shakespeare's sonnets published?
A) 1588
B) 1609
C) 1599
D) 1616
  • 2. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare publish in 1609?
A) 154
B) 120
C) 100
D) 200
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet?
A) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
B) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
C) AABB CCDD EEFF GG
D) ABC ABC DEF DEF
  • 4. What type of poetic metre is used in Sonnet 55?
A) Anapestic hexameter
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Dactylic dimeter
D) Trochaic tetrameter
  • 5. What does Sonnet 55 claim will outlast physical monuments?
A) Masonry structures
B) War memorials
C) Statues of princes
D) The poem itself
  • 6. Which ancient works are referenced in Sonnet 55?
A) Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad
B) Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
C) Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics
D) Horace's Odes and Ovid's Metamorphoses
  • 7. What does John Crowe Ransom point out about the promises of immortality in Sonnet 55?
A) It clearly describes the young man's physical features
B) The poem is self-refuting as it keeps the young man mostly hidden
C) It guarantees eternal life for both the poet and the subject
D) It focuses on the poet's own immortality
  • 8. What does Lars Engle argue about Shakespeare's claim regarding poetry?
A) Engle believes Shakespeare's poetry is inferior to ancient works
B) Shakespeare bestows immortality on another through his poetry, unlike Horace and Ovid who claimed it for themselves
C) Shakespeare claims that only royalty can achieve immortality
D) He argues that statues are more enduring than poetry
  • 9. What does Ernest Fontana focus on in the second quatrain of Sonnet 55?
A) The power of war
B) The beauty of the young man
C) The epithet 'sluttish time'
D) The grandeur of monuments
  • 10. According to Fontana, what does Shakespeare's use of 'besmeared' imply?
A) It describes the weathering of stone statues
B) It highlights the resilience of masonry
C) It metaphorically refers to syphilis and its effects on the body
D) It signifies the purity of marble monuments
  • 11. How does Helen Vendler describe the speaker's attitude towards entities connected to the beloved?
A) The speaker is indifferent to their connection to the beloved
B) The speaker bestows grandeur on them when connected to the beloved, but mocks them otherwise
C) The speaker always regards them with contempt
D) The speaker only focuses on their physical attributes
  • 12. What theme does Vendler argue revolves around in Sonnet 55?
A) The beauty of nature
B) The glory of war
C) The keyword 'live'
D) The inevitability of death
  • 13. What does the couplet in Sonnet 55 suggest about the young man's existence?
A) His existence is limited to the poem itself
B) He will cease to exist after his death
C) 'Real' living is assigned to the day of the Last Judgment, but he also lives in memory and lovers' eyes
D) The young man will only live physically until the Last Judgment
  • 14. Where was an epitaph written in memory of Shakespeare found?
A) The British Museum
B) Westminster Abbey
C) The Globe Theatre
D) The Folger Library
  • 15. What style of handwriting was used for the epitaph found in the Folger Library?
A) Cursive script
B) Italic hand
C) Gothic script
D) Secretary hand
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