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