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