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) 1593
B) 1609
C) 1616
D) 1588
  • 2. Who published 'A Lover's Complaint' in 1609?
A) Henry Condell
B) John Heminges
C) Edward Blount
D) Thomas Thorpe
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) ABABBCC
B) ABBAABB
C) ABABCDCD
D) AABBCCDD
  • 4. How many stanzas are in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Forty-seven
B) Twenty-one
C) Thirty-five
D) Fifty
  • 5. What form is used in 'A Lover's Complaint' that is also used in 'The Rape of Lucrece'?
A) Rhyme royal
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Heroic couplet
D) Blank verse
  • 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Robertson
B) Hazlitt
C) Edmond Malone
D) John Kerrigan
  • 7. Which literary scholar suggested that the poem might be by Chapman in 1917?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Eliot Slater
D) Robertson
  • 8. Which of these poets' works is not mentioned as an example of the female-voiced complaint?
A) Michael Drayton
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Thomas Lodge
D) Samuel Daniel
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Beautiful
B) Inferior
C) Confusing
D) Monotonous
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Othello
B) All's Well That Ends Well
C) Hamlet
D) Measure for Measure
  • 11. Who suggested that the poem might have been written by John Davies of Hereford?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) Eliot Slater
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Brian Vickers
  • 12. Which word is not listed as a verbal parallel between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Spongy
B) Fire
C) Outwardly
D) Physic
  • 13. Which database did Vickers use to find parallels between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Project Gutenberg
B) Google Books
C) JSTOR
D) LION
  • 14. Which critic called Vickers' omission of the poem from the RSC Complete Works a 'mistake'?
A) Harold Love
B) Kenneth Muir
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Eliot Slater
  • 15. What is the title of John Kerrigan's work that discusses 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
B) The Elizabethan Complaint
C) Shakespearean Sonnets
D) Motives of Woe
  • 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
B) Shakespeare's Sonnets
C) Sonnets by Samuel Daniel
D) Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
  • 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 contains sonnets.
C) It begins with a young woman weeping.
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) Vickers provided conclusive evidence for Shakespeare's authorship.
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) Love suggested that the poem was written by an anonymous early Elizabethan poet.
  • 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) Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and 'Henry IV'
C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and 'The Tempest'
D) Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and 'A Lover's Complaint'
  • 21. Which Shakespearean plays are thematically paralleled in 'A Lover's Complaint' according to critics?
A) Hamlet and Othello
B) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
C) Macbeth and King Lear
D) The Tempest and Twelfth Night
  • 22. Who approaches the young woman to ask about her sorrow in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) A shepherd
B) An old man
C) A friend
D) Her former lover
  • 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) Father, mother, child
C) King, queen, knight
D) Hero, villain, victim
  • 25. What quality of John Davies' style did Harold Love compare to Ned Ward's?
A) Unique vocabulary
B) Simplistic themes
C) Chameleonlike quality
D) Complex syntax
  • 26. What evidence did Brian Vickers use to argue against Shakespeare's authorship?
A) Analysis of the poem's meter and rhyme
B) Historical records of Shakespeare's life
C) Numerous verbal parallels with John Davies' works
D) Thematic similarities with other Elizabethan poems
  • 27. What is the main argument against Brian Vickers' suggestion that John Davies wrote 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) The poem was widely accepted as Shakespeare's work
B) The evidence is very meagre
C) There are no verbal parallels with Davies' works
D) John Davies never mentioned writing poetry
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