This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 21 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An English sonnet has how many lines? A) An English sonnet has 14 lines. B) An English sonnet has 10 lines. C) An English sonnet has 16 lines. D) An English sonnet has 8 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An English sonnet has 14 lines. 2. 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. 3. What is the pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry called? A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 4. Which of the following is an example of iambic pentameter? A) /U /U /U /U /U. B) /U U/ /U U/ /U. C) UU // UU // UU. D) U/ U/ U/ U/ U/. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) U/ U/ U/ U/ U/. 5. 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. 6. What is the definition of a sonnet? A) A type of poem with 14 lines. B) A type of rhyme scheme with 14 lines. C) A type of rhythm with 14 lines. D) A type of theme with 14 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A type of poem with 14 lines. 7. The moment in a poem where the argument and rhyme scheme change is called a ..... A) Turn. B) Check. C) Stop. D) Roll. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turn. 8. In what does Milton ultimately decide to place his trust at the end of "Sonnet VII" ? A) Time. B) Love. C) God. D) Truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) God. 9. Figurative language:a group of lines in a poem which forms a verse. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. What is the rhyme scheme of the sestet in a Shakespearean sonnet? A) THE FATHER. B) CDCDCD. C) EFEF. D) GG. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) EFEF. 11. Shakespeare used always the iambic pentameter A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 12. How many lines does a traditional Shakespearean Sonnet contain? A) 12. B) 16. C) 10. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 13. Of how many lines does a sonnet consist? A) 5. B) 7. C) 14. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 14. 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) Assay. B) Toil. C) Devise. D) Invention. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Toil. 15. A group of lines in a poem is called a/an A) Refrain. B) Octave. C) Couplet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 16. Which theme is commonly explored in Petrarchan sonnets? A) Nature's beauty. B) Immortality through poetry. C) The passage of time. D) Courtly love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Courtly love. 17. When composing a sonnet, what are the three things you must consider simultaneously? A) Themes, Persona, Rhythm. B) Rhyme Scheme, Iambic Pentameter, Content/Structure. C) Form, Meter, Thematic Concerns. D) Iambic Pentameter, Persona, Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme, Iambic Pentameter, Content/Structure. 18. Devise A) To plan or arrange in the mind. B) Ruin. C) A structural or behavioral peculiarity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To plan or arrange in the mind. 19. Shakespeare's use of five iambs stringed together is called A) Iambic pentameter. B) Trochaic quadmeter. C) Spondaic pentameter. D) Dactylic trimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 20. 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. ← 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