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