This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Shakespearean dramas, a/an ..... is when the audience knows more than the characters. A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) Infomercial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 2. Translate:I shalt toss it o'er to thee hence. A) I shall toss it over to thee here. B) I will toss it over to you from here. C) I shalt toss it o'er to you from here. D) I wilt toss it over to you from here. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I will toss it over to you from here. 3. True or False:Those in upper and lower classes both could only have bread and soup to eat. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 4. What is a regular pattern in a line of poetry called? A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 5. Which is the only reason Elizabeth Barrett Browning did not write sonnets for Robert Browning? A) To express her love. B) Because her father didn't approve of their relationship, so she had to write him secret messages of love instead of speaking to him freely. C) Because she felt that she wasn't clever enough to write longer poems, so she chose a short form instead. D) Because she could pretend that they'd been written in Portuguese and she was just translating them, so people didn't know she'd written them herself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because she felt that she wasn't clever enough to write longer poems, so she chose a short form instead. 6. Which of the following is the Shakespearean Sonnet's Rhyme Scheme? A) A b b a a b b and d e c d e. B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. C) A b b a a b b a c d c d c d. D) A a b b c c d d a a b b c c d d. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 7. The man who can pass by ignoring the view is dull of A) Common sense. B) Brain. C) Hearing. D) Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heart. 8. Which poetry type has two parts where the 1st introduces a problem/question and the 2nd expresses a solution/answer? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 9. A sonnet may include: A) Open lines, differences, and worry. B) Modern-day ideas from the 20th century. C) Typical reasoning that are easy to understand. D) Rhyme, rhythm, and imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme, rhythm, and imagery. 10. The soldier is as brave as a lion. This sentence is an example of a(n) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Extended Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. All of Shakespeare's sonnets conform to the same structure for English sonnets. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets in ..... pentameter. A) Lamb. B) Dual. C) Ironic. D) Iambic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic. 13. Words that sound similar because they have the same ending sound are said to ..... A) Rhyme. B) Match. C) Scheme. D) Rhythm. E) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 14. The exchange of spoken words between or among characters in a drama. A) Prologue. B) Chrous. C) Narrator. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 15. A sonnet is often about the subject of love. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. An English sonnet has how many lines? A) An English sonnet has 16 lines. B) An English sonnet has 10 lines. C) An English sonnet has 14 lines. D) An English sonnet has 8 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An English sonnet has 14 lines. 17. True or False:Many diseases became common because of poor hygiene and close living conditions. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. What is the pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry called? A) Meter. B) Diction. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 19. What is embassage? A) Embassage is an inside passageway. B) Embassage is a body of people with a mission to deliver a message. C) Embassage is to circle a group of bass fish. D) Embassage is a sheriff's mission. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Embassage is a body of people with a mission to deliver a message. 20. What is the definition of a sonnet? A) A type of rhythm with 14 lines. B) A type of theme with 14 lines. C) A type of rhyme scheme with 14 lines. D) A type of poem with 14 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A type of poem with 14 lines. 21. The moment in a poem where the argument and rhyme scheme change is called a ..... A) Stop. B) Roll. C) Check. D) Turn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turn. 22. In what does Milton ultimately decide to place his trust at the end of "Sonnet VII" ? A) Time. B) Truth. C) God. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) God. 23. Figurative language:a group of lines in a poem which forms a verse. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. What is the rhyme scheme of the sestet in a Shakespearean sonnet? A) EFEF. B) THE FATHER. C) CDCDCD. D) GG. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) EFEF. 25. Shakespeare used always the iambic pentameter A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 26. How many lines does a traditional Shakespearean Sonnet contain? A) 12. B) 16. C) 10. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 27. Of how many lines does a sonnet consist? A) 5. B) 7. C) 14. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 28. In the poem, the speaker describes the farmer's daily ..... in the fields, emphasizing the hard work and dedication required for a bountiful harvest. A) Devise. B) Invention. C) Assay. D) Toil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Toil. 29. A group of lines in a poem is called a/an A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Octave. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 30. Which theme is commonly explored in Petrarchan sonnets? A) Immortality through poetry. B) The passage of time. C) Nature's beauty. D) Courtly love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Courtly love. 31. When composing a sonnet, what are the three things you must consider simultaneously? A) Themes, Persona, Rhythm. B) Form, Meter, Thematic Concerns. C) Iambic Pentameter, Persona, Rhyme Scheme. D) Rhyme Scheme, Iambic Pentameter, Content/Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme, Iambic Pentameter, Content/Structure. 32. Shakespeare's use of five iambs stringed together is called A) Spondaic pentameter. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Trochaic quadmeter. D) Dactylic trimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic pentameter. 33. Which of the following were the two poets we read in class? A) Henry Howard and William Seymour. B) Shakespeare and Petrarch. C) Shakespeare and Henry Howard. D) Shakespeare and Thomas Mallory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespeare and Petrarch. 34. When did the Italian Renaissance start? A) 300 years before Shakespeare. B) 200 years before Shakespeare. C) 350 years before Shakespeare. D) 300 years after Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 300 years before Shakespeare. 35. Describe Iambic Pentameter. A) Iambic Pentameter is like breathing in Yoga. B) Iambic Pentameter is a solid beat. C) Iambic Pentameter is subgroups in a sonnet. D) Iambic Pentameter is like a heartbeat, which is a small beat (unstressed) followed by a larger beat (stressed.). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic Pentameter is like a heartbeat, which is a small beat (unstressed) followed by a larger beat (stressed.). 36. Which statement most accurately describes the word choices in these two lines?My grandfather was ninety-sixWhen Death carelessly mowed him down. A) A metaphor compares the grandfather to a tree. B) Personification treats death as if it were a human being. C) Sensory images help capture the feelings of the grandfather in old age. D) A simile compares the grandfather's death to the destruction of a lawn orgarden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification treats death as if it were a human being. 37. How many lines are there in a Shakespearean sonnet? answer A) $14$ Mathematical Equivalence OFF. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $14$ Mathematical Equivalence OFF. 38. The "unperfect actor" (line 1) is likely one who ..... A) Is not skilled as a thespian. B) Hangs around the theatre, hoping to be included in any play. C) Is not prepared with the learning of his lines. D) Is overconfident on stage, leading to errors. E) Is an "understudy's" label during the Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is not prepared with the learning of his lines. 39. To smell the flowers, what does the recipient need to do? A) Click on cellophane and press Control. B) Highlight the print and click on Encrypt Reverse. C) Use Drag. D) Press Delete. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Click on cellophane and press Control. 40. What is a group of four lines in a sonnet called? A) Cinquain. B) Quartet. C) Tetrain. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quatrain. 41. How many syllables are in a pair of feet A) 10. B) 4. C) 5. D) 2. E) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 42. What is the rhyme pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet? A) Aaa bbb ccc ddd ee. B) Aba bcb cdc dede ff. C) Abab cdcd efef gg. D) Aaaa bbbb cccc dd. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abab cdcd efef gg. 43. Which of the following is a feature of sonnets? A) They are always about love. B) They usually have 10 syllables per line. C) There is no rhyme scheme. D) They are split into 14 stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They usually have 10 syllables per line. 44. How many children were in Browning's family? A) 8. B) 9. C) 11. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12. 45. In literature, one "thing" represents another and it's meaning goes beyond the literal. A) Plot. B) Personification. C) Symbolism. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 46. The pattern of matching word sounds in a poem A) Meter. B) Couplet. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Iamb. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 47. The 1609 edition contains A) 158 sonnets. B) 154 sonnets. C) 152 sonnets. D) 157 sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 154 sonnets. 48. The struggle between opposing forces A) Monologue. B) Irony. C) Conflict. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 49. The sonnet is composed of 3 ..... and a rhyming couplet. A) Quatrains. B) Quartet. C) Tetrains. D) Fifty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrains. 50. In Spenser's Sonnet 75, the speaker writes his love's name in the sand. What is his main message to his love in this poem? A) His poem will make their love immortal. B) The pleasures of love end with death. C) He will love her forever. D) Their love has survived great suffering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His poem will make their love immortal. 51. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is the opening line to A) 127. B) 3. C) 130. D) 18. E) 34. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 18. 52. What is the main theme of the poem 'Do not go gentle into that good night'? A) The joys of a peaceful death. B) The inevitability of death and the futility of resistance. C) The celebration of a life well-lived. D) The struggle against death and the importance of fighting until the end. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The struggle against death and the importance of fighting until the end. 53. Sonnets are typically associated with notions of ..... A) Anger and Aggression. B) Contemplation and Spirituality. C) Desire and Admiration. D) Petrarch and Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desire and Admiration. 54. Iambic pentameter means each line has (a) syllables. A) A 10. B) 8. C) 2. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A 10. 55. Which poetry type can be English/Shakespearean or Italian/Petrarchan? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 56. Which stage of man is full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel. A) Soldier. B) Infant. C) School boy. D) Lover. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soldier. 57. Although more than half of the lines in this sonnet are pure iambic pentameter, there are several lines with interesting variations. Which of these lines features an extra syllable? A) 11. B) 9. C) 4. D) 14. E) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 58. The pattern of rhymes made by the final words or sounds in the lines of a poem, typically designated by a different letter of the alphabet to represent each rhyme A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Rhyme. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 59. What is the turn in a sonnet? A) A new speaker is introduced. B) The rhythm and/or rhyme scheme changes. C) Shift in thought-something changes. D) It is a shift from one stanza to the next. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shift in thought-something changes. 60. The houses of London seem A) Asleep. B) Awake. C) Shaken and tattered. D) Amazed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asleep. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesShakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 1Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 2Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 3Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 4Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 5Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 6Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 8Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books