This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 16 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Her phone burst into flames like a Samsung" is alluding to ..... A) A place. B) The Galaxy Note 7. C) Apple iPhone. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Galaxy Note 7. 2. All Sonnets sonnet have the same number of lines. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 3. How many lines must a sonnet have? A) 14. B) 12. C) 24. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14. 4. According to the speaker, in what way are the on-line flowers better than real ones? A) They are customized. B) They come with a message. C) They will last forever. D) They can easily be deleted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They will last forever. 5. In the poem, gym & crow is a pun on? A) His high school gym. B) Jim Crow. C) The annoying crow that lives in your gym. D) His friend Mr. Krull. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jim Crow. 6. What is "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" ? A) Sonnet 15. B) Sonnet 29. C) Sonnet 75. D) Sonnet 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet 29. 7. Look at this excerpt from a Shakespearean sonnet: "That time of year thou may'st in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang" How is Shakespeare using figurative language in these lines? A) The speaker compares himself to a tree in autumn, because he is thinking about the end of a relationship. B) The speaker compares himself to Christmastime, because he is full of joy. C) The speaker compares himself to a flower blooming in spring, because he is starting something new. D) The speaker compares himself to a leaf, because he feels hopeful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The speaker compares himself to a tree in autumn, because he is thinking about the end of a relationship. 8. What type of sonnet has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and is made up of 3 quatrains and a couplet? A) English/Shakespearean. B) Italian/Petrarchan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English/Shakespearean. 9. Sestet:6 line room A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. Is this a sonnet or a villanelle? ..... Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?They took my lover's tallness off to war, Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guessWhat I can use an empty heart-cup for.He won't be coming back here any more.Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knewWhen he went walking grandly out that doorThat my sweet love would have to be untrue.Would have to be untrue. Would have to courtCoquettish death, whose impudent and strangePossessive arms and beauty (of a sort)Can make a hard man hesitate-and change.And he will be the one to stammer, "Yes." Oh mother, mother, where is happiness? A) Sonnet. B) Villanelle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 11. What does the word sonnet mean in Italian? A) Little song. B) Little poem. C) Love song. D) 14 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Little song. 12. TYPICALLY the rhyme scheme should be abab cdcd efef gg A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. An English (or Shakespearean) sonnet usually ends with ..... A) An octave. B) A chorus. C) A rhyming couplet. D) An epilogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A rhyming couplet. 14. A state of rest, sleep, or tranquility. A) Sojourn. B) Repose. C) Sated. D) Reproach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repose. 15. Shakespearean sonnets are typically associated with ..... A) Hope. B) Morality. C) Uncovering Truths. D) Romantic Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romantic Love. 16. A four line stanza is called A) A quatrain. B) And sisters. C) The sest. D) A smalpet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A quatrain. 17. ..... is a quality, trait, or characteristic of the tragic hero that leads to his or her downfall. A) Tragic flaw. B) Pathetic fallacy. C) Self-fulfilling prophecy. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragic flaw. 18. How do the speaker's feelings change between the beginning and the end of Sonnet 29? A) They change from hopeless to thankful. B) They change from fearful to courageous. C) They change from joyful to sorrowful. D) They change from hopeful to grateful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They change from hopeless to thankful. 19. When Shakespeare says:My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red. Shakespeare means ..... A) Her lips are not red. B) Her lips are like coral. C) Her lips are coral. D) She has no lips, only coral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her lips are not red. 20. How does this poem differ from traditional sonnets? A) Number of lines. B) Point of view. C) Pattern of meter. D) Use of language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Use of language. ← 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