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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) 1588
C) 1616
D) 1593
  • 2. Who published 'A Lover's Complaint' in 1609?
A) Henry Condell
B) John Heminges
C) Thomas Thorpe
D) Edward Blount
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) ABBAABB
B) ABABCDCD
C) AABBCCDD
D) ABABBCC
  • 4. How many stanzas are in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Twenty-one
B) Forty-seven
C) Fifty
D) Thirty-five
  • 5. What form is used in 'A Lover's Complaint' that is also used in 'The Rape of Lucrece'?
A) Iambic pentameter
B) Rhyme royal
C) Heroic couplet
D) Blank verse
  • 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) John Kerrigan
B) Hazlitt
C) Edmond Malone
D) Robertson
  • 7. Which literary scholar suggested that the poem might be by Chapman in 1917?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) Eliot Slater
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Robertson
  • 8. Which of these poets' works is not mentioned as an example of the female-voiced complaint?
A) Samuel Daniel
B) Michael Drayton
C) Edmund Spenser
D) Thomas Lodge
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Inferior
B) Monotonous
C) Confusing
D) Beautiful
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) All's Well That Ends Well
B) Hamlet
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) Physic
B) Outwardly
C) Spongy
D) Fire
  • 13. Which database did Vickers use to find parallels between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Project Gutenberg
B) Google Books
C) JSTOR
D) LION
  • 14. Which critic called Vickers' omission of the poem from the RSC Complete Works a 'mistake'?
A) MacDonald P. Jackson
B) Eliot Slater
C) Kenneth Muir
D) Harold Love
  • 15. What is the title of John Kerrigan's work that discusses 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Shakespearean Sonnets
B) Motives of Woe
C) The Elizabethan Complaint
D) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
  • 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Shakespeare's Sonnets
B) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
C) Sonnets by Samuel Daniel
D) Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
  • 17. Which of these is not a characteristic feature of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) It begins with a young woman weeping.
B) It contains sonnets.
C) It includes an old man who asks about her sorrow.
D) It recounts a story of seduction and abandonment.
  • 18. Which literary form is 'A Lover's Complaint' similar to?
A) Female-voiced complaint
B) Ballad
C) Elegy
D) Ode
  • 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 provided conclusive evidence for Shakespeare's authorship.
D) Vickers' investigation favored voluminous authors like Davies due to their extensive output.
  • 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) Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and 'Henry IV'
D) As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and 'Richard III'
  • 21. Which Shakespearean plays are thematically paralleled in 'A Lover's Complaint' according to critics?
A) The Tempest and Twelfth Night
B) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
C) Hamlet and Othello
D) Macbeth and King Lear
  • 22. Who approaches the young woman to ask about her sorrow in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) An old man
B) A shepherd
C) A friend
D) Her former lover
  • 23. Which critic called 'A Lover's Complaint' 'beautiful'?
A) Edmond Malone
B) Eliot Slater
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Kenneth Muir
  • 24. What narrative triangle is present in both 'A Lover's Complaint' and Shakespeare's sonnets?
A) Father, mother, child
B) Hero, villain, victim
C) Young woman, elderly man, seductive suitor
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) Simplistic themes
D) Unique vocabulary
  • 26. What evidence did Brian Vickers use to argue against Shakespeare's authorship?
A) Thematic similarities with other Elizabethan poems
B) Historical records of Shakespeare's life
C) Analysis of the poem's meter and rhyme
D) Numerous verbal parallels with John Davies' works
  • 27. What is the main argument against Brian Vickers' suggestion that John Davies wrote 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) The poem was widely accepted as Shakespeare's work
B) There are no verbal parallels with Davies' works
C) The evidence is very meagre
D) John Davies never mentioned writing poetry
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