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A Lover's Complaint - Quiz
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) Thomas Thorpe
B) Edward Blount
C) John Heminges
D) Henry Condell
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) ABBAABB
B) ABABBCC
C) AABBCCDD
D) ABABCDCD
  • 4. How many stanzas are in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Thirty-five
B) Twenty-one
C) Fifty
D) Forty-seven
  • 5. What form is used in 'A Lover's Complaint' that is also used in 'The Rape of Lucrece'?
A) Heroic couplet
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Rhyme royal
D) Blank verse
  • 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Robertson
B) John Kerrigan
C) Edmond Malone
D) Hazlitt
  • 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) Thomas Lodge
B) Michael Drayton
C) Samuel Daniel
D) Edmund Spenser
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Confusing
B) Monotonous
C) Beautiful
D) Inferior
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) All's Well That Ends Well
B) Measure for Measure
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
  • 11. Who suggested that the poem might have been written by John Davies of Hereford?
A) Eliot Slater
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Kenneth Muir
D) Brian Vickers
  • 12. Which word is not listed as a verbal parallel between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Outwardly
B) Spongy
C) Fire
D) Physic
  • 13. Which database did Vickers use to find parallels between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Google Books
B) JSTOR
C) LION
D) Project Gutenberg
  • 14. Which critic called Vickers' omission of the poem from the RSC Complete Works a 'mistake'?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) Eliot Slater
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Harold Love
  • 15. What is the title of John Kerrigan's work that discusses 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Shakespearean Sonnets
B) The Elizabethan Complaint
C) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
D) Motives of Woe
  • 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
B) Shakespeare's Sonnets
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 recounts a story of seduction and abandonment.
B) It contains sonnets.
C) It begins with a young woman weeping.
D) It includes an old man who asks about her sorrow.
  • 18. Which literary form is 'A Lover's Complaint' similar to?
A) Elegy
B) Ode
C) Ballad
D) Female-voiced complaint
  • 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) Vickers' investigation favored voluminous authors like Davies due to their extensive output.
C) Love suggested that the poem was written by an anonymous early Elizabethan poet.
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) Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and 'Henry IV'
B) Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and 'A Lover's Complaint'
C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and 'The Tempest'
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) Macbeth and King Lear
C) Hamlet and Othello
D) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
  • 22. Who approaches the young woman to ask about her sorrow in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) An old man
B) A shepherd
C) Her former lover
D) A friend
  • 23. Which critic called 'A Lover's Complaint' 'beautiful'?
A) Eliot Slater
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Edmond Malone
D) Kenneth Muir
  • 24. What narrative triangle is present in both 'A Lover's Complaint' and Shakespeare's sonnets?
A) King, queen, knight
B) Hero, villain, victim
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) Unique vocabulary
B) Chameleonlike quality
C) Complex syntax
D) Simplistic themes
  • 26. What evidence did Brian Vickers use to argue against Shakespeare's authorship?
A) Analysis of the poem's meter and rhyme
B) Numerous verbal parallels with John Davies' works
C) Thematic similarities with other Elizabethan poems
D) Historical records of Shakespeare's life
  • 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) The evidence is very meagre
C) John Davies never mentioned writing poetry
D) There are no verbal parallels with Davies' works
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