This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Edmund Spenser > Edmund Spenser – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edmund Spenser Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many lines are in Spenserian stanza? A) 9. B) 12. C) 24. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 9. 2. Edmund's third job was working for the Lord Deputy of .....? A) Scotland. B) Wales. C) Ireland. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ireland. 3. Which schools did Edmund Spenser go to? A) Merchant Taylor' School, Pembroke College. B) Tower House School, Imperial College of London. C) Hampton Court House, Pembroke College. D) Hampton Court House, Pembroke College. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Merchant Taylor' School, Pembroke College. 4. Fanciful comparison of two apparently very different things. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Conceit. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conceit. 5. A rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion. A) Turn. B) Conceit. C) Paradox. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turn. 6. Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end a Shakespearean sonnet. A) Sestet. B) Iamb. C) Quatrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 7. The first eight lines of a sonnet. It usually asks a question that is answered in the last six lines of the poem. A) Octave. B) Sestet. C) Couplet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Octave. 8. The poet eternalizes his beloved in ..... A) His coffin. B) His verse. C) His house. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His verse. 9. To whom did Edmund Spenser dedicate his work The Shepheardes Calender? A) Philip Sidney. B) Boyle. C) Queen Elizabeth. D) Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philip Sidney. 10. A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an unaccented, accented pattern. A) Trochee. B) Dactyl. C) Anapest. D) Iamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iamb. 11. The words "ice" and "fire" in line 1 of Sonnet 30 tell you that the speaker ..... A) Feels excited for the woman. B) Feels rejected by the woman. C) Feels passion for the woman. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feels passion for the woman. 12. How did Edmund Spenser's family earn money when Spenser used to be a child? A) From raising sheep. B) From sewing clothes. C) From selling merchandises. D) From begging people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From raising sheep. 13. Edmund was a friend of who? A) Sir Thomas Wyatt. B) Henry Howard. C) Sir Walter Raleigh. D) George Herbert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sir Walter Raleigh. 14. She is like ..... A) Fire. B) Air. C) Light. D) Ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ice. 15. A Sonnet is A) A fourteen line lyric poem with a single theme. B) A free verse poem. C) A poem divided in eight line octave. D) I thought the place to get burgers was called Sonic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A fourteen line lyric poem with a single theme. 16. Which one of the following is an unfinished work of Edmund Spenser? A) The Faerie Queene. B) Amoretti. C) The Shepheardes Calender. D) Astrophel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Faerie Queene. 17. What is the title of the prose pamphlet Edmund Spenser wrote in the year 1596? A) The Visions of Petrarch. B) A View of the Present State of Ireland. C) The Ruines of Time. D) Visions of the worlds vanitie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A View of the Present State of Ireland. 18. Who was Edmund Spenser's mentor? A) Mason Bobert. B) William Ponsonby. C) Albert Admin. D) Gabriel Harvey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gabriel Harvey. 19. He is like ..... A) Ice. B) Wind. C) Fire. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fire. 20. "came the wave" A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEdmund Spenser Quiz 1Edmund Spenser Quiz 2Edmund Spenser Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books