This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Edmund Spenser > Edmund Spenser – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Edmund Spenser Quiz 1 (59 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Not every 14-line poem is a sonnet, but Every sonnet contains A) 14 lines. B) 24 lines. C) At least 10 lines. D) Unlimited. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14 lines. 2. Who is Edmund Spenser's publisher? A) William Ponsonby. B) Jonsonby Admin. C) Philip Sanders. D) Cleetus Albert. Show Answer 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;" ? A) Jealousy. B) Beauty. C) Unrequited love. D) Requited (reciprocal) love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unrequited love. 4. To which of these senses does the imagery most clearly appeal in "Sonnet 30" ? A) Sight and touch. B) Sight and sound. C) Touch and smell. D) Touch and sound. Show Answer 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 A) Dissolve their relationship. B) Cool his desire. C) Fade away. D) Delay their marriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cool his desire. 6. How many kids did Edmund Spenser have? A) None. B) 3. C) 6. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 7. What happens as the speaker continues and try to win the lady's love? A) She falls for him. B) Nothing happens. C) She becomes colder towards him. D) She loves someone else. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She becomes colder towards him. 8. To whom Edmund Spenser dedicated the work The Faerie Queene? A) Elizabeth. B) Chaucer. C) Sidney. D) Mary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth. 9. The speaker is confessing ..... to the lady. A) Love. B) Crime. C) Hate. D) Secret. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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 A) Conceit. B) Eternizing conceit. C) Purpose of all poetry. D) A paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eternizing conceit. 11. When and what degree did Edmund Spenser get? A) Masters of Acting degree, 1598. B) Masters of Drama degree, 1538. C) Masters of Arts degree, 1576. D) Masters of Writers degree, 1567. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Masters of Arts degree, 1576. 12. The poet views the ..... A) Power of poetry. B) Power of heaven. C) Power of death. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Power of poetry. 13. What is a quatrain? A) A stanza made up of 4 lines. B) A group of 4 authors working together. C) A train made up of 4 cars. D) A poem made up of 4 stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A stanza made up of 4 lines. 14. What does the speaker in Sonnet 75 plan to immortalize about the woman? A) He plans to immortalize her name and virtues. B) He plans to immortalize his name and virtues. C) He plans to immortalize her body and soul. D) None of above. Show Answer 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 ..... A) The speaker's beachhouse. B) Along the beach. C) In heaven. D) On board a ship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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. A) Spenserian Sonnet. B) Shakespearean Sonnet. C) Italian Sonnet. D) English Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spenserian Sonnet. 17. What was the goal of the speaker in "Sonnet 75, " that begins "One day I wrote her name upon the strand" ? A) He wanted to tell her he loved her. B) He was making a sandcastle. C) He wanted to immortalize his love. D) He wanted to destroy his love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wanted to immortalize his love. 18. Which one of the following rhyme scheme is the rhyme scheme Spenserian stanza? A) Ab cb bc cd e. B) Ab ab bc bc c. C) Ab bc cd de f. D) Abba bccb d. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ab ab bc bc c. 19. Edmund had to flee his home in Ireland because of the ..... rebellion. A) Irish. B) Italian. C) French. D) Chinese. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irish. 20. Edmund Spenser's first major work was? A) Amoretti. B) Epithalamion. C) The Shepherd's Calendar. D) The Faerie Queene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Shepherd's Calendar. 21. 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. 22. What profession did Edmund Spenser have before becoming a poet? A) Biology. B) Politics. C) Therapy. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Politics. 23. "Such is the pow'r of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind. " The speaker concludes that ..... A) He should give up on his beloved. B) Love has supernatural powers. C) His beloved is preparing to leave him. D) Their love is dying. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love has supernatural powers. 24. The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question posed in the first eight lines. A) Octave. B) Sestet. C) Couplet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sestet. 25. A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unaccented, accented. A) Trochee pentameter. B) Iambic tetrameter. C) Trochee tetrameter. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic pentameter. 26. How many books were originally planned to form the work The Faerie Queene? A) 12. B) 8. C) 23. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 12. 27. Spenser is influenced by ..... A) Petrarch. B) Shakespeare. C) Elizabeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespeare. 28. Under which pseudonym the work The Shepheardes Calender was published? A) Edward. B) Immerito. C) Immanuel. D) Jonathan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immerito. 29. What does the word "Renaissance" mean? A) Renewed. B) Remade. C) Rebuilt. D) Rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rebirth. 30. 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. 31. 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. 32. 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. 33. 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. 34. 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. 35. How many books did Edmund Spenser wrote? A) 43 or more. B) 18 or more. C) 34 or more. D) 15 or more. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 34 or more. 36. During which war the castle of Edmund Spenser, Kilcolman by name burnt by native Irish forces? A) Hundred Years War. B) Ten Years War. C) Nine Years War. D) Seventeen Years War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nine Years War. 37. "My love is like to ice, and I to fire;" is an example of ..... A) A metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) A simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A simile. 38. The poet's effort is ..... A) Remarkable. B) Pointless. C) Useful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pointless. 39. What relation did Edmund have with the Bishop of Rochester? (hint:it's not the meme answer) A) Babysitter. B) Family Cook. C) Sensei. D) Former Teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Former Teacher. 40. How many lines are in Spenserian stanza? A) 12. B) 24. C) 9. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9. 41. 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. 42. Which schools did Edmund Spenser go to? A) Tower House School, Imperial College of London. B) Hampton Court House, Pembroke College. C) Merchant Taylor' School, Pembroke College. D) Hampton Court House, Pembroke College. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Merchant Taylor' School, Pembroke College. 43. Fanciful comparison of two apparently very different things. A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Conceit. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conceit. 44. A rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion. A) Couplet. B) Turn. C) Conceit. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turn. 45. Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end a Shakespearean sonnet. A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Iamb. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 46. The first eight lines of a sonnet. It usually asks a question that is answered in the last six lines of the poem. A) Quatrain. B) Sestet. C) Octave. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Octave. 47. 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. 48. To whom did Edmund Spenser dedicate his work The Shepheardes Calender? A) Chaucer. B) Queen Elizabeth. C) Boyle. D) Philip Sidney. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Philip Sidney. 49. A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an unaccented, accented pattern. A) Anapest. B) Iamb. C) Dactyl. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iamb. 50. 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. 51. 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. 52. Edmund was a friend of who? A) Sir Thomas Wyatt. B) George Herbert. C) Henry Howard. D) Sir Walter Raleigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Walter Raleigh. 53. She is like ..... A) Air. B) Fire. C) Ice. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ice. 54. Which one of the following is an unfinished work of Edmund Spenser? A) The Faerie Queene. B) Amoretti. C) Astrophel. D) The Shepheardes Calender. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Faerie Queene. 55. 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. 56. Who was Edmund Spenser's mentor? A) Albert Admin. B) Mason Bobert. C) William Ponsonby. D) Gabriel Harvey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gabriel Harvey. 57. He is like ..... A) Earth. B) Fire. C) Ice. D) Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fire. 58. Who is the father of the English sonnet? A) Sir Edmund Spenser. B) Sir Philip Sidney. C) Sir Thomas Wyatt. D) Sir Walter Raleigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Edmund Spenser. 59. In which work of Edmund Spenser the Ape and the Fox serve to satirize the customs of the court? A) The Teares of the Muses. B) Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale. C) Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie. D) Ruines of Rome: by Bellay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale. Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature Quizzes 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books