A) 200 B) 160 C) 126 D) 154
A) Much Ado About Nothing B) Romeo and Juliet C) Henry V D) Love's Labour's Lost
A) A fictional character with no historical basis B) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton C) William Hughes, a young actor D) An unnamed young man addressed by the poet
A) ABC ABC DEF DEF GG B) AABB CCDD EEFF GG C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG D) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
A) The Fair Youth B) The Dark Lady C) The narrator D) The Rival Poet
A) An epic poem B) 154 sonnets C) 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal D) Three quatrains and a final couplet
A) Francis Davison B) John Davies of Hereford C) A composite of several poets D) Ben Jonson
A) Infidelity and betrayal B) Lust and homoeroticism C) Admiration for the youth's beauty and a plea to marry and have children D) Rejection and independence
A) Shakespeare's Sonnets B) Paradise Lost C) Leaves of Grass D) The Canterbury Tales
A) A turn or shift in thought or mood B) The beginning of the poem C) A repetition of ideas D) The end of the poem
A) Love's Labour's Lost B) Romeo and Juliet C) Henry V D) Much Ado About Nothing
A) It confirms Mr. W.H. as the author B) It reveals him to be the Dark Lady C) It is a subject of speculation regarding his identity D) It identifies him as the Fair Youth
A) Free verse B) English or Shakespearean sonnet C) Spenserian sonnet D) Petrarchan sonnet
A) The beauty of nature B) The misery of a woman victimized by male desire C) The adventures of a knight D) The triumphs of love
A) Romeo and Juliet B) Henry V C) Love's Labour's Lost D) Much Ado About Nothing
A) They consist of three quatrains and a couplet B) They are free verse C) They are written in rhyme royal D) They follow the Shakespearean sonnet form
A) Ben Jonson B) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton C) William Hughes D) Edward Alleyn
A) Overt sexuality and a defiant departure from traditional themes B) Admiration for her intelligence C) Praise for her beauty D) Rejection of her advances
A) Trochaic tetrameter B) Dactylic hexameter C) Iambic pentameter D) Anapestic trimeter
A) Henry V B) Romeo and Juliet C) Much Ado About Nothing D) All’s Well that Ends Well
A) William Shakespeare B) George Eld C) Edward Alleyn D) Thomas Thorpe
A) The Rape of Lucrece B) Venus and Adonis C) The Phoenix and the Turtle D) A Lover's Complaint
A) 40 B) 126 C) 14 D) 28
A) Thomas Thorpe B) William Aspley C) George Eld D) John Wright
A) ABABCDCDEFEFGG B) AABBCCDDEEFFGG C) ABABBCBCCDCDDC D) ABBAABBACDCDCD
A) Five B) Twenty C) Thirteen D) Eight
A) Thomas Thorpe B) The Earl of Southampton C) Mr. W.H. D) William Shakespeare
A) Every Man in His Humour B) The Alchemist C) Volpone D) Epigrammes (1616)
A) Ben Jonson B) Christopher Marlowe C) Thomas Kyd D) William Haughton
A) Edward Alleyn B) William Hart C) Richard Burbage D) Hamnet Shakespeare
A) Climax B) Volta C) Denouement D) Resolution
A) Samuel Johnson B) Edmund Malone C) Oscar Wilde D) Thomas Tyrwhitt
A) Male lead roles B) Comedic roles C) Villainous roles D) Female roles
A) 26 B) 20 C) 15 D) 30
A) 1588 B) 1616 C) 1609 D) 1592
A) 1612 B) 1609 C) 1597 D) 1598
A) Edmond Malone B) William Jaggard C) Thomas Heywood D) Francis Meres
A) Palladis Tamia B) Shakespeare's Sonnets C) Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare Gent D) The Passionate Pilgrime
A) Shakespeare B) Francis Meres C) Edmond Malone D) John Benson
A) Admiringly B) Indifferently C) Scornfully D) With great respect
A) Literary ambition. B) Biographical aspects. C) Cultural context. D) Linguistic structure.
A) New Criticism. B) Biographical criticism. C) Historical criticism. D) Cultural criticism.
A) Focusing only on concrete meanings. B) Having experts simplify double meanings. C) Ignoring abstract meanings. D) Dealing with perplexity on their own.
A) Widely celebrated. B) Unknown. C) Relatively low. D) Highly esteemed.
A) Edmund Spenser. B) Sir Philip Sidney. C) William Shakespeare. D) John Milton.
A) Only once. B) Twice. C) Many times. D) Never.
A) Dumaine B) King of Navarre C) Lord Longaville D) Lord Berowne
A) Four B) One C) Two D) Three
A) Henry V B) Much Ado About Nothing C) Love's Labour's Lost D) Romeo and Juliet
A) 1612 B) 1596 C) 1588 D) 1601
A) "my love is as a fever longing still" B) "that time of year thou mayst in me behold" C) "budding of this purple bud" D) "scarlet ornaments" |