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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) 1609
B) 1593
C) 1588
D) 1616
  • 2. Who published 'A Lover's Complaint' in 1609?
A) Thomas Thorpe
B) Edward Blount
C) John Heminges
D) Henry Condell
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) ABABBCC
B) AABBCCDD
C) ABABCDCD
D) ABBAABB
  • 4. How many stanzas are in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Forty-seven
B) Thirty-five
C) Fifty
D) Twenty-one
  • 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) Robertson
D) John Kerrigan
  • 7. Which literary scholar suggested that the poem might be by Chapman in 1917?
A) Eliot Slater
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Kenneth Muir
D) Robertson
  • 8. Which of these poets' works is not mentioned as an example of the female-voiced complaint?
A) Samuel Daniel
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Michael Drayton
D) Thomas Lodge
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Beautiful
B) Monotonous
C) Inferior
D) Confusing
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Hamlet
B) Othello
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) MacDonald P. Jackson
B) Brian Vickers
C) Eliot Slater
D) Kenneth Muir
  • 12. Which word is not listed as a verbal parallel between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Physic
B) Fire
C) Outwardly
D) Spongy
  • 13. Which database did Vickers use to find parallels between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Project Gutenberg
B) JSTOR
C) Google Books
D) LION
  • 14. Which critic called Vickers' omission of the poem from the RSC Complete Works a 'mistake'?
A) MacDonald P. Jackson
B) Kenneth Muir
C) Eliot Slater
D) Harold Love
  • 15. What is the title of John Kerrigan's work that discusses 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) The Elizabethan Complaint
B) Shakespearean Sonnets
C) Motives of Woe
D) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
  • 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
B) Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
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 includes an old man who asks about her sorrow.
C) It contains sonnets.
D) It begins with a young woman weeping.
  • 18. Which literary form is 'A Lover's Complaint' similar to?
A) Female-voiced complaint
B) Ode
C) Ballad
D) Elegy
  • 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) Vickers provided conclusive evidence for Shakespeare's authorship.
C) Vickers' investigation favored voluminous authors like Davies due to their extensive output.
D) Love agreed with Vickers that John Davies was the true author.
  • 20. Which plays did MacDonald P. Jackson find contained all three words: 'spongy', 'outwardly', and 'physic'?
A) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and 'The Tempest'
B) Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and 'A Lover's Complaint'
C) As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and 'Richard III'
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) Hamlet and Othello
B) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
C) The Tempest and Twelfth Night
D) Macbeth and King Lear
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