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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) 1616
B) 1593
C) 1609
D) 1588
  • 2. Who published 'A Lover's Complaint' in 1609?
A) Thomas Thorpe
B) Henry Condell
C) John Heminges
D) Edward Blount
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) AABBCCDD
B) ABABCDCD
C) ABABBCC
D) ABBAABB
  • 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) Blank verse
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Rhyme royal
D) Heroic couplet
  • 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Hazlitt
B) Robertson
C) Edmond Malone
D) John Kerrigan
  • 7. Which literary scholar suggested that the poem might be by Chapman in 1917?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) Robertson
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Eliot Slater
  • 8. Which of these poets' works is not mentioned as an example of the female-voiced complaint?
A) Edmund Spenser
B) Thomas Lodge
C) Samuel Daniel
D) Michael Drayton
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Beautiful
B) Confusing
C) Monotonous
D) Inferior
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Measure for Measure
B) All's Well That Ends Well
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
  • 11. Who suggested that the poem might have been written by John Davies of Hereford?
A) Brian Vickers
B) Kenneth Muir
C) Eliot Slater
D) MacDonald P. Jackson
  • 12. Which word is not listed as a verbal parallel between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Spongy
B) Physic
C) Outwardly
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) Harold Love
B) Eliot Slater
C) Kenneth Muir
D) MacDonald P. Jackson
  • 15. What is the title of John Kerrigan's work that discusses 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
B) The Elizabethan Complaint
C) Motives of Woe
D) Shakespearean Sonnets
  • 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Sonnets by Samuel Daniel
B) Shakespeare's Sonnets
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 contains sonnets.
B) It includes an old man who asks about her sorrow.
C) It recounts a story of seduction and abandonment.
D) It begins with a young woman weeping.
  • 18. Which literary form is 'A Lover's Complaint' similar to?
A) Female-voiced complaint
B) Elegy
C) Ode
D) Ballad
  • 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) Macbeth and King Lear
B) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
C) The Tempest and Twelfth Night
D) Hamlet and Othello
  • 22. Who approaches the young woman to ask about her sorrow in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) A friend
B) Her former lover
C) An old man
D) A shepherd
  • 23. Which critic called 'A Lover's Complaint' 'beautiful'?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) Edmond Malone
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Eliot Slater
  • 24. What narrative triangle is present in both 'A Lover's Complaint' and Shakespeare's sonnets?
A) Hero, villain, victim
B) King, queen, knight
C) Father, mother, child
D) Young woman, elderly man, seductive suitor
  • 25. What quality of John Davies' style did Harold Love compare to Ned Ward's?
A) Complex syntax
B) Chameleonlike quality
C) Unique vocabulary
D) Simplistic themes
  • 26. What evidence did Brian Vickers use to argue against Shakespeare's authorship?
A) Historical records of Shakespeare's life
B) Analysis of the poem's meter and rhyme
C) Thematic similarities with other Elizabethan poems
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) There are no verbal parallels with Davies' works
B) John Davies never mentioned writing poetry
C) The poem was widely accepted as Shakespeare's work
D) The evidence is very meagre
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