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Sonnet 60 - Test
Contributed by: Bennett
  • 1. Who wrote Sonnet 60?
A) Ben Jonson
B) John Milton
C) William Shakespeare
D) Christopher Marlowe
  • 2. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write in total?
A) 154
B) 200
C) 120
D) 100
  • 3. To whom is Sonnet 60 addressed?
A) The Queen of England
B) A rival poet
C) A fair youth
D) Shakespeare's wife
  • 4. What is the main theme of Sonnet 60?
A) Political power
B) Love and beauty
C) Nature's beauty
D) The passing of time
  • 5. How does Shakespeare describe minutes in Sonnet 60?
A) As leaves falling from trees
B) Like waves on a pebbled shore
C) As stars in the night sky
D) As birds in flight
  • 6. What form is Sonnet 60 written in?
A) Villanelle
B) Petrarchan sonnet
C) Spenserian sonnet
D) Shakespearean sonnet
  • 7. How many quatrains does a Shakespearean sonnet contain?
A) Three
B) Four
C) Five
D) Two
  • 8. What is the rhyme scheme of Sonnet 60?
A) aabb ccdd eeff gg
B) abab cdcd efef gg
C) abc abc abc abc
D) abba abba cdc dcd
  • 9. What type of poetic metre is used in Sonnet 60?
A) Trochaic tetrameter
B) Anapestic trimeter
C) Dactylic hexameter
D) Iambic pentameter
  • 10. What does the couplet in Sonnet 60 suggest about verse?
A) It is fleeting and temporary
B) It will make the beloved's beauty immortal
C) It is irrelevant to time
D) It cannot capture true beauty
  • 11. How does Helen Vendler describe the form of Sonnet 60?
A) An irregular sonnet form
B) A classic Petrarchan sonnet
C) A modernist free verse
D) A perfect example of the 4-4-4-2 Shakespearean sonnet form
  • 12. What poetic feet does Sonnet 60 incorporate besides iambs?
A) Trochees and spondees
B) Monosyllables and polysyllables
C) Dactyls and anapests
D) Dimeters and trimeters
  • 13. What does Stephen Booth highlight in his criticism of Sonnet 60?
A) The joy of youth
B) The beauty of nature
C) The battle against time
D) The power of love
  • 14. What does Lopez focus on in his analysis of Sonnet 60?
A) Death and destruction
B) Rebirth and renewal
C) Romantic relationships
D) Political themes
  • 15. How does Helen Vendler view the concept of time in Sonnet 60?
A) As having different models interacting with each other
B) As irrelevant to human life
C) As a constant and unchanging force
D) As a linear progression
  • 16. In what era was Sonnet 60 written?
A) The 1600s
B) The 1700s
C) The 1590s
D) The 1500s
  • 17. What historical event is mentioned as occurring around the time Sonnet 60 was written?
A) American Revolution
B) French Revolution
C) Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
D) Fall of the Roman Empire
  • 18. What does Dympna Callaghan associate with Sonnet 60?
A) Spiritual enlightenment
B) Natural cycles
C) Political power
D) Mechanical time
  • 19. Which two sonnets are noted for their concern with time according to Dympna Callaghan?
A) Sonnet 29 and Sonnet 55
B) Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130
C) Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 116
D) Sonnet 12 and Sonnet 60
  • 20. How did the measurement of time change in England during Shakespeare's era?
A) People stopped measuring time altogether
B) Time was no longer important to society
C) Timekeeping became less accurate
D) Time became highly measured and integrated into social order
  • 21. What ancient work influenced Sonnet 60?
A) Dante's Divine Comedy
B) Homer's Iliad
C) Ovid's Metamorphoses
D) Virgil's Aeneid
  • 22. What aspect of Ovid's work does Sonnet 60 share?
A) The heroism of warriors
B) The adventures of gods
C) The exploration of new worlds
D) Time as a cyclical, natural process
  • 23. What does Jonathan Bate say about Renaissance writers' view on the past?
A) They considered history irrelevant
B) They focused only on future innovations
C) They believed passionately that the present could learn from the past
D) They ignored historical texts
  • 24. How does Shakespeare's use of Ovid in Sonnet 60 reflect a contrast?
A) Between ancient and modern views of time
B) Between personal experiences
C) Between various historical events
D) Between different poetic styles
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