This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 19 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Sonnet 12 ( "When I do count the clock that tells the time" ), what do the images of passing time make the speaker wonder about the person he addresses? A) Will that person's beauty fade?. B) Will that person's fame endure?. C) Will that person remember him?. D) Will that person always love him?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will that person's beauty fade?. 2. Shakespearean Sonnets end in a ..... A) Stanza. B) Quatrain. C) Scheme. D) Couplet. E) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 3. In a Shakespearean drama, a/an ..... character is a character who's in extreme contrast from another character; they're opposite personalities. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Foil. D) Fable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foil. 4. Iambic pentameter means each line has 10 syllables. The pattern is unstressed/stressed syllable. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. The air of London in the early morning is A) Polluted. B) Full of smoke. C) Smokeless. D) Foggy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smokeless. 6. What is the tone of Sonnet 130? A) Hopeful and happy. B) Anxious and sad. C) Serious and angry. D) Humorous and realistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humorous and realistic. 7. If a sonnet has a 3 quatrains how many total lines will there be? A) 20. B) 4. C) 8. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12. 8. What is an octave (the 1st part of an Italian/Petrarchan sonnet uses this)? A) Rhyming lines of 3. B) Rhyming lines of 4. C) Rhyming lines of 6. D) Rhyming lines of 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyming lines of 8. 9. These sonnets are addressed to a young man: A) 1-17. B) 18-126. C) 1-126. D) 127-154. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1-126. 10. Which monarch (king or queen) was first on the throne during Shakespeare's time? A) Henry VIII. B) William. C) George. D) Elizabeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabeth. 11. A Shakespearean ..... is a serious drama with an unhappy ending; typically the main character is destined to do something great but a flaw causes their tragic end. A) Comedy. B) History. C) Tragedy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 12. Which of the following things does Milton learn is NOT expected by God? A) Acceptance. B) Devotion. C) Faith. D) Work. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Work. 13. A pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables is called ..... A) Verse. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Meter. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 14. What is the term for the two ending rhymes in a sonnet? A) Quatrain. B) Sestet. C) Couplet. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 15. What poetic meter features five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry, , totaling ten syllables in a line? A) Iambic Pentameter. B) Trochaic Tetrameter. C) Quatrains. D) Spondaic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic Pentameter. 16. The regular repeating pattern of beats and syllables are called A) Foot. B) Meter. C) Sonnet. D) Syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 17. Of how many lines does a limerick consist? A) 5. B) 7. C) 14. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 18. The content of a sonnet includes ..... A) Conflict, Summary. B) Praise, Summary, Conflict. C) The content changes every time. D) Praise, Praise, Conflict, Summary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Praise, Praise, Conflict, Summary. 19. Where does the rhymed couplet appear in Shakespearean sonnets? A) At the end of each quatrain. B) At the beginning of each quatrain. C) In the first two lines of the poem. D) In the final two lines of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the final two lines of the poem. 20. Who is considered the greatest sonnet writer in English literature? A) William Shakespeare. B) John Donne. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Francesco Petrarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Shakespeare. ← 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