A Lover's Complaint - Test
A Lover s Complaint
  • 1. In which year was 'A Lover's Complaint' published as part of Shakespeare's Sonnets?
A) 1588
B) 1616
C) 1593
D) 1609
  • 2. Who published 'A Lover's Complaint' in 1609?
A) Edward Blount
B) John Heminges
C) Thomas Thorpe
D) Henry Condell
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) ABABBCC
B) ABBAABB
C) AABBCCDD
D) ABABCDCD
  • 4. How many stanzas are in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Twenty-one
B) Fifty
C) Thirty-five
D) Forty-seven
  • 5. What form is used in 'A Lover's Complaint' that is also used in 'The Rape of Lucrece'?
A) Iambic pentameter
B) Rhyme royal
C) Heroic couplet
D) Blank verse
  • 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Robertson
B) Edmond Malone
C) John Kerrigan
D) Hazlitt
  • 7. Which literary scholar suggested that the poem might be by Chapman in 1917?
A) Eliot Slater
B) Robertson
C) Kenneth Muir
D) MacDonald P. Jackson
  • 8. Which of these poets' works is not mentioned as an example of the female-voiced complaint?
A) Thomas Lodge
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Michael Drayton
D) Samuel Daniel
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Confusing
B) Beautiful
C) Monotonous
D) Inferior
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) All's Well That Ends Well
B) Hamlet
C) Measure for Measure
D) Othello
  • 11. Who suggested that the poem might have been written by John Davies of Hereford?
A) Brian Vickers
B) Eliot Slater
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Kenneth Muir
  • 12. Which word is not listed as a verbal parallel between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Spongy
B) Physic
C) Outwardly
D) Fire
  • 13. Which database did Vickers use to find parallels between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) LION
B) Project Gutenberg
C) JSTOR
D) Google Books
  • 14. Which critic called Vickers' omission of the poem from the RSC Complete Works a 'mistake'?
A) MacDonald P. Jackson
B) Eliot Slater
C) Harold Love
D) Kenneth Muir
  • 15. What is the title of John Kerrigan's work that discusses 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Shakespearean Sonnets
B) The Elizabethan Complaint
C) Motives of Woe
D) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
  • 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Sonnets by Samuel Daniel
B) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
C) Shakespeare's Sonnets
D) Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
  • 17. Which of these is not a characteristic feature of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) It includes an old man who asks about her sorrow.
B) It recounts a story of seduction and abandonment.
C) It begins with a young woman weeping.
D) It contains sonnets.
  • 18. Which literary form is 'A Lover's Complaint' similar to?
A) Elegy
B) Ballad
C) Female-voiced complaint
D) Ode
  • 19. What was Harold Love's critique of Vickers' suggestion regarding the authorship?
A) Vickers' investigation favored voluminous authors like Davies due to their extensive output.
B) Love suggested that the poem was written by an anonymous early Elizabethan poet.
C) Love agreed with Vickers that John Davies was the true author.
D) Vickers provided conclusive evidence for Shakespeare's authorship.
  • 20. Which plays did MacDonald P. Jackson find contained all three words: 'spongy', 'outwardly', and 'physic'?
A) Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and 'A Lover's Complaint'
B) Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and 'Henry IV'
C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and 'The Tempest'
D) As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and 'Richard III'
  • 21. Which Shakespearean plays are thematically paralleled in 'A Lover's Complaint' according to critics?
A) The Tempest and Twelfth Night
B) Hamlet and Othello
C) Macbeth and King Lear
D) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
  • 22. Who approaches the young woman to ask about her sorrow in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) An old man
B) A shepherd
C) Her former lover
D) A friend
  • 23. Which critic called 'A Lover's Complaint' 'beautiful'?
A) Eliot Slater
B) Edmond Malone
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Kenneth Muir
  • 24. What narrative triangle is present in both 'A Lover's Complaint' and Shakespeare's sonnets?
A) Young woman, elderly man, seductive suitor
B) King, queen, knight
C) Hero, villain, victim
D) Father, mother, child
  • 25. What quality of John Davies' style did Harold Love compare to Ned Ward's?
A) Simplistic themes
B) Complex syntax
C) Chameleonlike quality
D) Unique vocabulary
  • 26. What evidence did Brian Vickers use to argue against Shakespeare's authorship?
A) Historical records of Shakespeare's life
B) Analysis of the poem's meter and rhyme
C) Thematic similarities with other Elizabethan poems
D) Numerous verbal parallels with John Davies' works
  • 27. What is the main argument against Brian Vickers' suggestion that John Davies wrote 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) There are no verbal parallels with Davies' works
B) John Davies never mentioned writing poetry
C) The evidence is very meagre
D) The poem was widely accepted as Shakespeare's work
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