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Sonnet
  • 1. What is the only confirmed surviving sonnet in the Occitan language?
A) William of Almarichi
B) Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia
C) Pere Serafí
D) Dante de Maiano
  • 2. When was the Occitan sonnet by Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia dated?
A) 1284
B) 1384
C) 1486
D) 1248
  • 3. How many sonnets did Pere Serafí publish between 1560 and 1565?
A) Under 30
B) About 100
C) Over 60
D) Exactly 50
  • 4. Which Spanish poet is credited with early attempts at 'sonnets written in the Italian manner'?
A) Garcilaso de la Vega
B) Juan Boscán
C) Íñigo López de Mendoza
D) Lope de Vega
  • 5. Who suggested that Juan Boscán should attempt the sonnet in the Spanish language?
A) Garcilaso de la Vega
B) Andrea Navagero
C) King Carlos V
D) Fernando de Herrera
  • 6. What is the name of the book that championed the neoplatonic ideal used in Boscán and Garcilaso's sonnets?
A) La niña de Plata
B) Los éxtasis de la montaña
C) Mascarilla y trébol
D) The Book of the Courtier
  • 7. Who was considered the first major Spanish sonneteer after Garcilaso?
A) Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
B) Francisco de Quevedo
C) Luis de Góngora
D) Fernando de Herrera
  • 8. What was the stylistic school of Luis de Góngora called?
A) Conceptismo
B) Baroque Minimalism
C) Culteranismo
D) Neoplatonism
  • 9. What term is used to describe the style of Francisco de Quevedo?
A) Gongorismo
B) Culteranismo
C) Conceptismo
D) Petrarchanism
  • 10. Approximately how many sonnets did Lope de Vega write?
A) 500
B) 3,000
C) 60
D) 1,000
  • 11. In which comedy does Lope de Vega's 'Un soneto me manda hacer Violante' first appear?
A) Mascarilla y trébol
B) The Book of the Courtier
C) Los Parques Abandonados
D) La niña de Plata
  • 12. Which Italian poet wrote an earlier sonnet about the creation of a sonnet?
A) Giambattista Marino
B) Dante de Maiano
C) Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia
D) Pieraccio Tedaldi
  • 13. Who were two 17th-century Mexican writers who wrote sonnets while in holy orders?
A) Miguel de Guevara and Juana Inés de la Cruz
B) Joaquín Acadio Pagaza and Manuel José Othón
C) Julio Herrera y Reissig and César Vallejo
D) Francisco de Terrazas and Lope de Vega
  • 14. Which Uruguayan poet wrote 'Los Parques Abandonados'?
A) César Vallejo
B) Alfonsina Storni
C) Julio Herrera y Reissig
D) Manuel José Othón
  • 15. What term did Alfonsina Storni use for her unrhymed poems that kept traditional structural elements?
A) Baroque sonnets
B) Antisonnets
C) Modernist sonnets
D) Neoplatonic sonnets
  • 16. How many lines does a traditional sonnet have?
A) Fourteen
B) Twelve
C) Sixteen
D) Ten
  • 17. What is the origin of the word 'sonnet'?
A) The Italian word sonetto
B) The French word sonnet
C) The Latin word sonare
D) The Greek word sonnetos
  • 18. Where did the sonnet originate in the 13th century?
A) Tuscany
B) Sicily
C) Rome
D) Venice
  • 19. What was the original subject matter of the sonnet?
A) Scientific observation
B) Political satire
C) Romantic love
D) Religious devotion
  • 20. What is the name of the eight-line Sicilian folksong stanza that William Baer suggests is identical to the first eight lines of the earliest sonnets?
A) Qasida
B) Strambotto
C) Muwashshah
D) Canso
  • 21. What does Hassanally Ladha argue regarding the structure of the Sicilian sonnet?
A) It was created in isolation by the Sicilian School
B) It originated in the Tuscan dialect
C) It was purely an invention of Petrarch
D) It drew upon Arabic poetry
  • 22. Which scholar brought the sonnet form to Tuscany?
A) Giacomo da Lentini
B) Guittone d'Arezzo
C) Petrarch
D) Dante Alighieri
  • 23. In the Italian sonnet structure, what is the 'volta'?
A) The opening line
B) The turn
C) The conclusion
D) The rhyme scheme
  • 24. At what point in an Italian sonnet does the 'volta' typically occur?
A) The first line
B) The fourteenth line
C) The fifth line
D) The ninth line
  • 25. What does the 'octave' describe in the Italian sonnet's argument structure?
A) A description of nature
B) A problem or question
C) A biographical history
D) A resolution
  • 26. Which of these is a standard rhyme scheme for the octave of an Italian sonnet?
A) AABBCCDD
B) ABCDABCD
C) ABBAABBA
D) ABABABAB
  • 27. Who wrote 'La Vita Nuova', a narrative containing sonnets centered on the poet's love for Beatrice?
A) Dante Alighieri
B) Galileo
C) Giotto
D) Petrarch
  • 28. How many sonnets are included in Petrarch's 'Canzionere'?
A) 250
B) 14
C) 317
D) 661
  • 29. Which of these individuals was NOT a practitioner of sonnet writing mentioned in the text?
A) Michelangelo
B) Frederick II
C) Giotto
D) Galileo
  • 30. What does the Latin word 'sonus' mean?
A) Line
B) Song
C) Poem
D) Sound
  • 31. According to the text, what happened to the earliest Sicilian sonnets over time?
A) They remained in their original Sicilian language
B) They were translated into Tuscan dialect
C) They were converted into prose
D) They were lost in a fire
  • 32. How is the modern sonnet form different from the traditional form?
A) It must always have twenty lines
B) It may abandon the rhyme scheme entirely
C) It can only be written in Latin
D) It prohibits the use of quatrains
  • 33. What did the literary historian say about the ubiquity of sonnets in Italian society?
A) They were reserved exclusively for royalty
B) Even tradesmen used them to celebrate trivial events
C) They were rarely written by anyone other than poets
D) They were banned by the academician Crescimbeni
  • 34. In the context of the Sicilian sonnet, what carries the sense forward in a new direction?
A) The final line
B) The octave
C) The midway break
D) The volta
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