This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Edmund Spenser > Edmund Spenser – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edmund Spenser Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a poem its rhythm and rhyme. A) Cadence. B) Meter. C) Iamb. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 2. What profession did Edmund Spenser have before becoming a poet? A) Politics. B) Therapy. C) Biology. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Politics. 3. "Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind. " The speaker concludes that ..... A) Their love is dying. B) His beloved is preparing to leave him. C) He should give up on his beloved. D) Love has supernatural powers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love has supernatural powers. 4. The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question posed in the first eight lines. A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Octave. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sestet. 5. A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unaccented, accented. A) Iambic pentameter. B) Iambic tetrameter. C) Trochee pentameter. D) Trochee tetrameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 6. Amoretti are A) Sonnets. B) Eternizing conceits. C) Little love poems. D) Delicious Italian cookies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little love poems. 7. How many books were originally planned to form the work The Faerie Queene? A) 18. B) 8. C) 23. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12. 8. Spenser is influenced by ..... A) Petrarch. B) Shakespeare. C) Elizabeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespeare. 9. Under which pseudonym the work The Shepheardes Calender was published? A) Edward. B) Jonathan. C) Immanuel. D) Immerito. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immerito. 10. What does the word "Renaissance" mean? A) Renewed. B) Rebuilt. C) Remade. D) Rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rebirth. 11. What type of work is the work The Faerie Queene? A) Pastoral work. B) Religious work. C) Allegorical work. D) Natural work. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegorical work. 12. Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.The last two lines Sonnet 30 reveal that A) Love is a powerless force. B) Love is a powerful force. C) Love is worthless force. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love is a powerful force. 13. The setting is ..... A) On the beach. B) On a ship. C) In a tree house. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On the beach. 14. The Renaissance was the rebirth of A) Arts, literature, and science. B) Monarchy. C) Theatre. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arts, literature, and science. 15. Which book is Edmund Spenser most known for? A) Writing Romeo and Juliet. B) Writing the Faerie Queene. C) Creating Microsoft. D) Writing Mother Hubberd's Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writing the Faerie Queene. 16. How many books did Edmund Spenser wrote? A) 15 or more. B) 43 or more. C) 34 or more. D) 18 or more. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 34 or more. 17. During which war the castle of Edmund Spenser, Kilcolman by name burnt by native Irish forces? A) Hundred Years War. B) Nine Years War. C) Ten Years War. D) Seventeen Years War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nine Years War. 18. "My love is like to ice, and I to fire;" is an example of ..... A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A simile. 19. The poet's effort is ..... A) Remarkable. B) Pointless. C) Useful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pointless. 20. What relation did Edmund have with the Bishop of Rochester? (hint:it's not the meme answer) A) Former Teacher. B) Babysitter. C) Family Cook. D) Sensei. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Former Teacher. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEdmund Spenser Quiz 1Edmund Spenser Quiz 3Edmund Spenser Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books