Edmund Spenser Quiz 1 (20 MCQs)

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1. Not every 14-line poem is a sonnet, but Every sonnet contains

Correct Answer: B) 14 lines.

2. Who is Edmund Spenser's publisher?

Correct Answer: A) William Ponsonby.

3. What is the theme of "Sonnet 30, " which starts "My love is like to ice, and I to fire;" ?

Correct Answer: A) Unrequited love.

4. To which of these senses does the imagery most clearly appeal in "Sonnet 30" ?

Correct Answer: A) Sight and touch.

5. " "What more miraculous thing may be toldThat fire which all things melts, should harden ice" The speaker asks why his beloved's coldness does not

Correct Answer: A) Cool his desire.

6. How many kids did Edmund Spenser have?

Correct Answer: D) 4.

7. What happens as the speaker continues and try to win the lady's love?

Correct Answer: C) She becomes colder towards him.

8. To whom Edmund Spenser dedicated the work The Faerie Queene?

Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth.

9. The speaker is confessing ..... to the lady.

Correct Answer: C) Love.

10. The idea that someone should submit to the poet's love and poet will make the person famous/immortal though poetry is known as the

Correct Answer: B) Eternizing conceit.

11. When and what degree did Edmund Spenser get?

Correct Answer: B) Masters of Arts degree, 1576.

12. The poet views the .....

Correct Answer: A) Power of poetry.

13. What is a quatrain?

Correct Answer: C) A stanza made up of 4 lines.

14. What does the speaker in Sonnet 75 plan to immortalize about the woman?

Correct Answer: A) He plans to immortalize her name and virtues.

15. "One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away" . The setting of the poem is .....

Correct Answer: C) Along the beach.

16. A type of sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet, with an interlocking rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.

Correct Answer: D) Spenserian Sonnet.

17. What was the goal of the speaker in "Sonnet 75, " that begins "One day I wrote her name upon the strand" ?

Correct Answer: C) He wanted to immortalize his love.

18. Which one of the following rhyme scheme is the rhyme scheme Spenserian stanza?

Correct Answer: D) Ab ab bc bc c.

19. Edmund had to flee his home in Ireland because of the ..... rebellion.

Correct Answer: A) Irish.

20. Edmund Spenser's first major work was?

Correct Answer: D) The Shepherd's Calendar.