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Sonnet - Quiz
Contributed by: Leonard
  • 1. What is the only confirmed surviving sonnet in the Occitan language?
A) William of Almarichi
B) Pere Serafí
C) Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia
D) Dante de Maiano
  • 2. When was the Occitan sonnet by Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia dated?
A) 1486
B) 1248
C) 1284
D) 1384
  • 3. How many sonnets did Pere Serafí publish between 1560 and 1565?
A) Under 30
B) About 100
C) Over 60
D) Exactly 50
  • 4. Which Spanish poet is credited with early attempts at 'sonnets written in the Italian manner'?
A) Garcilaso de la Vega
B) Lope de Vega
C) Juan Boscán
D) Íñigo López de Mendoza
  • 5. Who suggested that Juan Boscán should attempt the sonnet in the Spanish language?
A) King Carlos V
B) Fernando de Herrera
C) Garcilaso de la Vega
D) Andrea Navagero
  • 6. What is the name of the book that championed the neoplatonic ideal used in Boscán and Garcilaso's sonnets?
A) Los éxtasis de la montaña
B) La niña de Plata
C) The Book of the Courtier
D) Mascarilla y trébol
  • 7. Who was considered the first major Spanish sonneteer after Garcilaso?
A) Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
B) Fernando de Herrera
C) Francisco de Quevedo
D) Luis de Góngora
  • 8. What was the stylistic school of Luis de Góngora called?
A) Culteranismo
B) Neoplatonism
C) Conceptismo
D) Baroque Minimalism
  • 9. What term is used to describe the style of Francisco de Quevedo?
A) Petrarchanism
B) Culteranismo
C) Conceptismo
D) Gongorismo
  • 10. Approximately how many sonnets did Lope de Vega write?
A) 3,000
B) 60
C) 500
D) 1,000
  • 11. In which comedy does Lope de Vega's 'Un soneto me manda hacer Violante' first appear?
A) The Book of the Courtier
B) Los Parques Abandonados
C) Mascarilla y trébol
D) La niña de Plata
  • 12. Which Italian poet wrote an earlier sonnet about the creation of a sonnet?
A) Giambattista Marino
B) Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia
C) Dante de Maiano
D) Pieraccio Tedaldi
  • 13. Who were two 17th-century Mexican writers who wrote sonnets while in holy orders?
A) Miguel de Guevara and Juana Inés de la Cruz
B) Joaquín Acadio Pagaza and Manuel José Othón
C) Julio Herrera y Reissig and César Vallejo
D) Francisco de Terrazas and Lope de Vega
  • 14. Which Uruguayan poet wrote 'Los Parques Abandonados'?
A) César Vallejo
B) Manuel José Othón
C) Alfonsina Storni
D) Julio Herrera y Reissig
  • 15. What term did Alfonsina Storni use for her unrhymed poems that kept traditional structural elements?
A) Baroque sonnets
B) Antisonnets
C) Modernist sonnets
D) Neoplatonic sonnets
  • 16. How many lines does a traditional sonnet have?
A) Sixteen
B) Twelve
C) Ten
D) Fourteen
  • 17. What is the origin of the word 'sonnet'?
A) The Greek word sonnetos
B) The Italian word sonetto
C) The Latin word sonare
D) The French word sonnet
  • 18. Where did the sonnet originate in the 13th century?
A) Tuscany
B) Venice
C) Sicily
D) Rome
  • 19. What was the original subject matter of the sonnet?
A) Political satire
B) Scientific observation
C) Romantic love
D) Religious devotion
  • 20. What is the name of the eight-line Sicilian folksong stanza that William Baer suggests is identical to the first eight lines of the earliest sonnets?
A) Canso
B) Qasida
C) Strambotto
D) Muwashshah
  • 21. What does Hassanally Ladha argue regarding the structure of the Sicilian sonnet?
A) It drew upon Arabic poetry
B) It was created in isolation by the Sicilian School
C) It originated in the Tuscan dialect
D) It was purely an invention of Petrarch
  • 22. Which scholar brought the sonnet form to Tuscany?
A) Petrarch
B) Giacomo da Lentini
C) Guittone d'Arezzo
D) Dante Alighieri
  • 23. In the Italian sonnet structure, what is the 'volta'?
A) The rhyme scheme
B) The turn
C) The opening line
D) The conclusion
  • 24. At what point in an Italian sonnet does the 'volta' typically occur?
A) The first line
B) The ninth line
C) The fourteenth line
D) The fifth line
  • 25. What does the 'octave' describe in the Italian sonnet's argument structure?
A) A biographical history
B) A description of nature
C) A resolution
D) A problem or question
  • 26. Which of these is a standard rhyme scheme for the octave of an Italian sonnet?
A) ABCDABCD
B) AABBCCDD
C) ABABABAB
D) ABBAABBA
  • 27. Who wrote 'La Vita Nuova', a narrative containing sonnets centered on the poet's love for Beatrice?
A) Petrarch
B) Giotto
C) Galileo
D) Dante Alighieri
  • 28. How many sonnets are included in Petrarch's 'Canzionere'?
A) 14
B) 661
C) 317
D) 250
  • 29. Which of these individuals was NOT a practitioner of sonnet writing mentioned in the text?
A) Galileo
B) Giotto
C) Michelangelo
D) Frederick II
  • 30. What does the Latin word 'sonus' mean?
A) Poem
B) Line
C) Sound
D) Song
  • 31. According to the text, what happened to the earliest Sicilian sonnets over time?
A) They were lost in a fire
B) They were translated into Tuscan dialect
C) They were converted into prose
D) They remained in their original Sicilian language
  • 32. How is the modern sonnet form different from the traditional form?
A) It must always have twenty lines
B) It may abandon the rhyme scheme entirely
C) It prohibits the use of quatrains
D) It can only be written in Latin
  • 33. What did the literary historian say about the ubiquity of sonnets in Italian society?
A) They were rarely written by anyone other than poets
B) Even tradesmen used them to celebrate trivial events
C) They were banned by the academician Crescimbeni
D) They were reserved exclusively for royalty
  • 34. In the context of the Sicilian sonnet, what carries the sense forward in a new direction?
A) The octave
B) The volta
C) The final line
D) The midway break
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