This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the person who translated the Bible from Latin to Middle English so even the common could understand? A) Queen Elizabeth. B) John Wycliffe. C) King Charles. D) King Henry the VIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Wycliffe. 2. How many syllables are in a line of iambic pentameter A) 5. B) 10. C) 2. D) 4. E) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 3. What makes an alternate rhyming couplet? A) Two lines with 'aa' rhyming scheme. B) Two lines with 'ab' rhyming scheme. C) Three lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two lines with 'ab' rhyming scheme. 4. Iambic pentameter helps create a rhythm to the poem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. In Shakespearean dramas, a/an ..... is when the audience knows more than the characters. A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Infomercial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 6. Another name for a type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two. A) English Sonnet. B) Spenserian Sonnet. C) Petrarchan Sonnet. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Petrarchan Sonnet. 7. 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. 8. True or False:Those in upper and lower classes both could only have bread and soup to eat. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. The man who can pass by ignoring the view is dull of A) Hearing. B) Brain. C) Heart. D) Common sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heart. 13. 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. 14. 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. 15. 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. 16. All of Shakespeare's sonnets conform to the same structure for English sonnets. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets in ..... pentameter. A) Lamb. B) Ironic. C) Iambic. D) Dual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic. 18. Words that sound similar because they have the same ending sound are said to ..... A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Match. D) Scheme. E) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Rhyme. 19. The exchange of spoken words between or among characters in a drama. A) Prologue. B) Dialogue. C) Chrous. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 20. A sonnet is often about the subject of love. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← 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