This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 11 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Shakespeare's love is not true. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. How is a Spenserian sonnet different from a Petrarchan sonnet? A) A Spenserian sonnet is always written as part of a sequence. B) A Spenserian sonnet deals with love and the natural world. C) A Spenserian sonnet has a different rhyme scheme. D) A Spenserian sonnet has a different number of lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Spenserian sonnet has a different rhyme scheme. 3. What is the arrangement of words in a sentence or phrase called? A) Diction. B) Syntax. C) Grammar. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 4. In lines 9-13 of Sonnet 30, the speaker implies she might A) Die for her love. B) Go mad over her love. C) Trade her love for some necessity. D) Beg her love to release her from her marriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trade her love for some necessity. 5. What's the rhyme scheme of a limerick? A) FATHER. B) THE FATHER. C) ABBA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) THE FATHER. 6. Which of the following best illustrates a trochee? A) U/. B) /U. C) //U. D) //. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /U. 7. A group of 6 lines in a sonnet is called a/an A) Couplet. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sestet. 8. Satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full. A) Sated. B) Languishing. C) Repose. D) Crone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sated. 9. How many lines per stanza/paragraph in a sonnet? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 10. How many iambs in a line? A) 2. B) 5. C) 10. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 11. 2 rhymed lines at the end of a sonnet is called a A) Couplet. B) Refrain. C) Octave. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 12. Which of Shakespeare's children died at a young age? A) Susanna. B) Anna. C) Hamnet. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamnet. 13. How does the sonnet form affect the content of the poem? A) It uses chronological order in the first three quatrains. B) It follows the same rhyme scheme throughout. C) It shortens ideas so they fit into four-line quatrains. D) It requires that its content be about romantic love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It shortens ideas so they fit into four-line quatrains. 14. What is the basic form of a sonnet? A) Fourteen lines. B) Eight lines. C) Twelve lines. D) Six lines plus a rhyming sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fourteen lines. 15. How many syllables does a line of IAMBIC PENTAMETER have? A) 14. B) 12. C) 10. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 16. In Petrarch's sonnet 169, what is his main problem? A) He can't find a job and is starving. B) He's so in love with Laura he can't tell her. C) He is being pursued by another woman. D) He is taking comfort in nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He's so in love with Laura he can't tell her. 17. Iambic is a pattern of ..... A) One stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable. B) One unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable followed by another unstressed syllable. C) One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. D) Two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. 18. Although a sonnet contains only one stanza, its structure has ..... 'parts'. A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 19. Giving human qualities to a thing or abstraction; for example, "The kettle sang on the hearth, " or "After the victory, freedom held its head high in the nation." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 20. Which is the best paraphrase of this line from Spenser's Sonnet 35? All this world's glory seemeth vain to me ..... A) The things the world considers great in life seem meaningless to me. B) The world is a great place to live. C) I have not received the glory and honor I have earned. D) The wonders of this world are too great to enjoy in a short life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The things the world considers great in life seem meaningless to me. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres 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 7Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 8Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books