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) 1588
B) 1609
C) 1593
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) ABABCDCD
B) ABABBCC
C) ABBAABB
D) AABBCCDD
  • 4. How many stanzas are in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Thirty-five
B) Twenty-one
C) Fifty
D) Forty-seven
  • 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) Blank verse
D) Rhyme royal
  • 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) John Kerrigan
B) Edmond Malone
C) Hazlitt
D) Robertson
  • 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) Samuel Daniel
D) Thomas Lodge
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Confusing
B) Monotonous
C) Inferior
D) Beautiful
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Measure for Measure
B) Hamlet
C) All's Well That Ends Well
D) Othello
  • 11. Who suggested that the poem might have been written by John Davies of Hereford?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) Brian Vickers
C) Eliot Slater
D) MacDonald P. Jackson
  • 12. Which word is not listed as a verbal parallel between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Outwardly
B) Fire
C) Physic
D) Spongy
  • 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) 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) 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 Edmund Spenser
B) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
C) Sonnets by Samuel Daniel
D) Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • 17. Which of these is not a characteristic feature of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) It begins with a young woman weeping.
B) It includes an old man who asks about her sorrow.
C) It recounts a story of seduction and abandonment.
D) It contains sonnets.
  • 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 agreed with Vickers that John Davies was the true author.
B) Love suggested that the poem was written by an anonymous early Elizabethan poet.
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) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and 'The Tempest'
B) As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and 'Richard III'
C) Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and 'Henry IV'
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) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
D) The Tempest and Twelfth Night
  • 22. Who approaches the young woman to ask about her sorrow in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Her former lover
B) An old man
C) A shepherd
D) A friend
  • 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) Young woman, elderly man, seductive suitor
B) Father, mother, child
C) Hero, villain, victim
D) King, queen, knight
  • 25. What quality of John Davies' style did Harold Love compare to Ned Ward's?
A) Complex syntax
B) Chameleonlike quality
C) Unique vocabulary
D) Simplistic themes
  • 26. What evidence did Brian Vickers use to argue against Shakespeare's authorship?
A) Numerous verbal parallels with John Davies' works
B) Thematic similarities with other Elizabethan poems
C) Historical records of Shakespeare's life
D) Analysis of the poem's meter and rhyme
  • 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) The poem was widely accepted as Shakespeare's work
C) John Davies never mentioned writing poetry
D) There are no verbal parallels with Davies' works
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