Sonnet 60 - Test
  • 1. Who wrote Sonnet 60?
A) Ben Jonson
B) Christopher Marlowe
C) William Shakespeare
D) John Milton
  • 2. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write in total?
A) 200
B) 154
C) 120
D) 100
  • 3. To whom is Sonnet 60 addressed?
A) A fair youth
B) A rival poet
C) Shakespeare's wife
D) The Queen of England
  • 4. What is the main theme of Sonnet 60?
A) The passing of time
B) Political power
C) Nature's beauty
D) Love and beauty
  • 5. How does Shakespeare describe minutes in Sonnet 60?
A) Like waves on a pebbled shore
B) As leaves falling from trees
C) As birds in flight
D) As stars in the night sky
  • 6. What form is Sonnet 60 written in?
A) Villanelle
B) Spenserian sonnet
C) Petrarchan sonnet
D) Shakespearean sonnet
  • 7. How many quatrains does a Shakespearean sonnet contain?
A) Four
B) Three
C) Five
D) Two
  • 8. What is the rhyme scheme of Sonnet 60?
A) aabb ccdd eeff gg
B) abab cdcd efef gg
C) abc abc abc abc
D) abba abba cdc dcd
  • 9. What type of poetic metre is used in Sonnet 60?
A) Trochaic tetrameter
B) Dactylic hexameter
C) Iambic pentameter
D) Anapestic trimeter
  • 10. What does the couplet in Sonnet 60 suggest about verse?
A) It cannot capture true beauty
B) It is irrelevant to time
C) It is fleeting and temporary
D) It will make the beloved's beauty immortal
  • 11. How does Helen Vendler describe the form of Sonnet 60?
A) A classic Petrarchan sonnet
B) A modernist free verse
C) An irregular sonnet form
D) A perfect example of the 4-4-4-2 Shakespearean sonnet form
  • 12. What poetic feet does Sonnet 60 incorporate besides iambs?
A) Dactyls and anapests
B) Trochees and spondees
C) Monosyllables and polysyllables
D) Dimeters and trimeters
  • 13. What does Stephen Booth highlight in his criticism of Sonnet 60?
A) The power of love
B) The battle against time
C) The joy of youth
D) The beauty of nature
  • 14. What does Lopez focus on in his analysis of Sonnet 60?
A) Death and destruction
B) Political themes
C) Rebirth and renewal
D) Romantic relationships
  • 15. How does Helen Vendler view the concept of time in Sonnet 60?
A) As having different models interacting with each other
B) As a linear progression
C) As a constant and unchanging force
D) As irrelevant to human life
  • 16. In what era was Sonnet 60 written?
A) The 1700s
B) The 1600s
C) The 1590s
D) The 1500s
  • 17. What historical event is mentioned as occurring around the time Sonnet 60 was written?
A) Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
B) French Revolution
C) American Revolution
D) Fall of the Roman Empire
  • 18. What does Dympna Callaghan associate with Sonnet 60?
A) Mechanical time
B) Spiritual enlightenment
C) Natural cycles
D) Political power
  • 19. Which two sonnets are noted for their concern with time according to Dympna Callaghan?
A) Sonnet 12 and Sonnet 60
B) Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 116
C) Sonnet 29 and Sonnet 55
D) Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130
  • 20. How did the measurement of time change in England during Shakespeare's era?
A) Timekeeping became less accurate
B) Time was no longer important to society
C) Time became highly measured and integrated into social order
D) People stopped measuring time altogether
  • 21. What ancient work influenced Sonnet 60?
A) Dante's Divine Comedy
B) Virgil's Aeneid
C) Ovid's Metamorphoses
D) Homer's Iliad
  • 22. What aspect of Ovid's work does Sonnet 60 share?
A) The exploration of new worlds
B) The adventures of gods
C) The heroism of warriors
D) Time as a cyclical, natural process
  • 23. What does Jonathan Bate say about Renaissance writers' view on the past?
A) They ignored historical texts
B) They focused only on future innovations
C) They believed passionately that the present could learn from the past
D) They considered history irrelevant
  • 24. How does Shakespeare's use of Ovid in Sonnet 60 reflect a contrast?
A) Between different poetic styles
B) Between personal experiences
C) Between various historical events
D) Between ancient and modern views of time
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