Shakespeare's sonnets - Test
A) 160 B) 154 C) 200 D) 126
A) Much Ado About Nothing B) Love's Labour's Lost C) Romeo and Juliet D) Henry V
A) A fictional character with no historical basis B) William Hughes, a young actor C) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton D) An unnamed young man addressed by the poet
A) AABB CCDD EEFF GG B) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE C) ABC ABC DEF DEF GG D) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
A) The Fair Youth B) The Dark Lady C) The Rival Poet D) The narrator
A) 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal B) An epic poem C) Three quatrains and a final couplet D) 154 sonnets
A) A composite of several poets B) Francis Davison C) Ben Jonson D) John Davies of Hereford
A) Admiration for the youth's beauty and a plea to marry and have children B) Lust and homoeroticism C) Infidelity and betrayal D) Rejection and independence
A) Shakespeare's Sonnets B) Leaves of Grass C) The Canterbury Tales D) Paradise Lost
A) The end of the poem B) A turn or shift in thought or mood C) A repetition of ideas D) The beginning of the poem
A) Henry V B) Romeo and Juliet C) Love's Labour's Lost D) Much Ado About Nothing
A) It is a subject of speculation regarding his identity B) It confirms Mr. W.H. as the author C) It reveals him to be the Dark Lady D) It identifies him as the Fair Youth
A) Free verse B) English or Shakespearean sonnet C) Petrarchan sonnet D) Spenserian sonnet
A) The beauty of nature B) The triumphs of love C) The misery of a woman victimized by male desire D) The adventures of a knight
A) Henry V B) Romeo and Juliet C) Love's Labour's Lost D) Much Ado About Nothing
A) They follow the Shakespearean sonnet form B) They are written in rhyme royal C) They are free verse D) They consist of three quatrains and a couplet
A) Edward Alleyn B) Ben Jonson C) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton D) William Hughes
A) Admiration for her intelligence B) Overt sexuality and a defiant departure from traditional themes C) Praise for her beauty D) Rejection of her advances
A) Dactylic hexameter B) Iambic pentameter C) Anapestic trimeter D) Trochaic tetrameter
A) Henry V B) Romeo and Juliet C) Much Ado About Nothing D) All’s Well that Ends Well
A) Edward Alleyn B) Thomas Thorpe C) William Shakespeare D) George Eld
A) The Phoenix and the Turtle B) Venus and Adonis C) The Rape of Lucrece D) A Lover's Complaint
A) 40 B) 14 C) 126 D) 28
A) John Wright B) William Aspley C) Thomas Thorpe D) George Eld
A) ABABBCBCCDCDDC B) ABBAABBACDCDCD C) ABABCDCDEFEFGG D) AABBCCDDEEFFGG
A) Eight B) Five C) Twenty D) Thirteen
A) Mr. W.H. B) The Earl of Southampton C) William Shakespeare D) Thomas Thorpe
A) Volpone B) Every Man in His Humour C) The Alchemist D) Epigrammes (1616)
A) Christopher Marlowe B) Thomas Kyd C) William Haughton D) Ben Jonson
A) Richard Burbage B) William Hart C) Hamnet Shakespeare D) Edward Alleyn
A) Denouement B) Climax C) Resolution D) Volta
A) Edmund Malone B) Oscar Wilde C) Samuel Johnson D) Thomas Tyrwhitt
A) Villainous roles B) Male lead roles C) Female roles D) Comedic roles
A) 30 B) 26 C) 15 D) 20
A) 1609 B) 1592 C) 1616 D) 1588
A) 1597 B) 1609 C) 1612 D) 1598
A) Francis Meres B) Thomas Heywood C) William Jaggard D) Edmond Malone
A) Shakespeare's Sonnets B) The Passionate Pilgrime C) Palladis Tamia D) Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare Gent
A) Edmond Malone B) Shakespeare C) Francis Meres D) John Benson
A) Scornfully B) With great respect C) Admiringly D) Indifferently
A) Biographical aspects. B) Cultural context. C) Linguistic structure. D) Literary ambition.
A) Biographical criticism. B) Cultural criticism. C) Historical criticism. D) New Criticism.
A) Having experts simplify double meanings. B) Dealing with perplexity on their own. C) Ignoring abstract meanings. D) Focusing only on concrete meanings.
A) Unknown. B) Widely celebrated. C) Highly esteemed. D) Relatively low.
A) Edmund Spenser. B) John Milton. C) William Shakespeare. D) Sir Philip Sidney.
A) Many times. B) Never. C) Twice. D) Only once.
A) Lord Berowne B) Dumaine C) Lord Longaville D) King of Navarre
A) One B) Two C) Three D) Four
A) Henry V B) Love's Labour's Lost C) Much Ado About Nothing D) Romeo and Juliet
A) 1588 B) 1601 C) 1612 D) 1596
A) "that time of year thou mayst in me behold" B) "scarlet ornaments" C) "my love is as a fever longing still" D) "budding of this purple bud" |
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