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A Lover's Complaint - Test
Contributed by: Morris
  • 1. In which year was 'A Lover's Complaint' published as part of Shakespeare's Sonnets?
A) 1609
B) 1616
C) 1593
D) 1588
  • 2. Who published 'A Lover's Complaint' in 1609?
A) John Heminges
B) Edward Blount
C) Henry Condell
D) Thomas Thorpe
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) AABBCCDD
B) ABABBCC
C) ABBAABB
D) ABABCDCD
  • 4. How many stanzas are in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Fifty
B) Thirty-five
C) Twenty-one
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) Rhyme royal
D) Blank verse
  • 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Robertson
B) Hazlitt
C) John Kerrigan
D) Edmond Malone
  • 7. Which literary scholar suggested that the poem might be by Chapman in 1917?
A) MacDonald P. Jackson
B) Kenneth Muir
C) Robertson
D) Eliot Slater
  • 8. Which of these poets' works is not mentioned as an example of the female-voiced complaint?
A) Samuel Daniel
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Michael Drayton
D) Thomas Lodge
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Confusing
B) Inferior
C) Monotonous
D) Beautiful
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Hamlet
B) All's Well That Ends Well
C) Measure for Measure
D) Othello
  • 11. Who suggested that the poem might have been written by John Davies of Hereford?
A) Eliot Slater
B) Kenneth Muir
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Brian Vickers
  • 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) LION
B) Google Books
C) Project Gutenberg
D) JSTOR
  • 14. Which critic called Vickers' omission of the poem from the RSC Complete Works a 'mistake'?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Eliot Slater
D) Harold Love
  • 15. What is the title of John Kerrigan's work that discusses 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Motives of Woe
B) The Elizabethan Complaint
C) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
D) Shakespearean Sonnets
  • 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Shakespeare's Sonnets
B) Sonnets by Samuel Daniel
C) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
D) Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
  • 17. Which of these is not a characteristic feature of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) It includes an old man who asks about her sorrow.
B) It begins with a young woman weeping.
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) Elegy
B) Female-voiced complaint
C) Ballad
D) Ode
  • 19. What was Harold Love's critique of Vickers' suggestion regarding the authorship?
A) Vickers' investigation favored voluminous authors like Davies due to their extensive output.
B) Love suggested that the poem was written by an anonymous early Elizabethan poet.
C) Love agreed with Vickers that John Davies was the true author.
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) Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and 'A Lover's Complaint'
B) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and 'The Tempest'
C) As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and 'Richard III'
D) Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and 'Henry IV'
  • 21. Which Shakespearean plays are thematically paralleled in 'A Lover's Complaint' according to critics?
A) Hamlet and Othello
B) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
C) The Tempest and Twelfth Night
D) Macbeth and King Lear
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