- 1. In which year was 'A Lover's Complaint' published as part of Shakespeare's Sonnets?
A) 1588
B) 1593
C) 1609
D) 1616
- 2. Who published 'A Lover's Complaint' in 1609?
A) John Heminges
B) Henry Condell
C) Thomas Thorpe
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) Forty-seven
B) Twenty-one
C) Fifty
D) Thirty-five
- 5. What form is used in 'A Lover's Complaint' that is also used in 'The Rape of Lucrece'?
A) Heroic couplet
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Rhyme royal
D) Blank verse
- 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Robertson
B) John Kerrigan
C) Hazlitt
D) Edmond Malone
- 7. Which literary scholar suggested that the poem might be by Chapman in 1917?
A) Robertson
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Kenneth Muir
D) Eliot Slater
- 8. Which of these poets' works is not mentioned as an example of the female-voiced complaint?
A) Samuel Daniel
B) Michael Drayton
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) All's Well That Ends Well
B) Measure for Measure
C) Othello
D) Hamlet
- 11. Who suggested that the poem might have been written by John Davies of Hereford?
A) Eliot Slater
B) Kenneth Muir
C) Brian Vickers
D) MacDonald P. Jackson
- 12. Which word is not listed as a verbal parallel between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Outwardly
B) Physic
C) Spongy
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) Harold Love
B) Kenneth Muir
C) Eliot Slater
D) MacDonald P. Jackson
- 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) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
D) Shakespearean Sonnets
- 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Shakespeare's Sonnets
B) Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
C) Sonnets by Samuel Daniel
D) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
- 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 contains sonnets.
D) It begins with a young woman weeping.
- 18. Which literary form is 'A Lover's Complaint' similar to?
A) Ballad
B) Female-voiced complaint
C) Elegy
D) Ode
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