This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 24 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Sonnet 60 ( "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore" ), what does the speaker hope will stand the test of time? A) His ship. B) His verse. C) His youth. D) His courage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His verse. 2. What is the regular repeating pattern of beats and syllables? A) Meter. B) Iambic Pentameter. C) Couplet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 3. "What more miraculous thing may be toldThat fire which all things melts, should harden iceThe speaker wonders why the more he pleads with his beloved ..... A) The closer she draws near to him. B) The colder she becomes. C) The more her ice melts. D) The further she runs from him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The colder she becomes. 4. Two line of poetry that rhyme right after each other are called ..... A) A pairing. B) A couplet. C) A farthing. D) My OPT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A couplet. 5. Shakespeare was most famous for writing plays and ..... ? A) Sonnets. B) Ballads. C) Limericks. D) Epics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnets. 6. What is the rhythm of sonnets? A) Dactylic hexameter. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Blank verse. D) Iambic tetrameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic pentameter. 7. There are how many lines in a sonnet? A) 4. B) 2. C) 12. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 8. What is the ryhthm of iambic pentameter meant to sound like? A) A lawnmower. B) The human heartbeat. C) The flow of water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The human heartbeat. 9. Who did Elizabeth Barrett marry? A) Percy Bysshe Shelley. B) John Keats. C) Robert Browning. D) George Gordon, Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Browning. 10. Sonnets 127-152 are written to A) A woman with dark hair. B) A fairy. C) An old man. D) A young man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A woman with dark hair. 11. Who is "the eye of heaven" in sonnet 18? A) The moon. B) The sun. C) The stars. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The sun. 12. In most sonnets, the writer's purpose is to ..... A) Express personal feelings. B) Inform the reader about a topic. C) Defend an argument. D) Make the reader laugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Express personal feelings. 13. ..... is a protagonist who possesses a tragic flaw that leads to his or her end. A) A prophet. B) Tragic hero. C) Antagonist. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragic hero. 14. What is the rhyme scheme of an Italian sonnet? A) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. B) ABAB CDE CDE DDGG. C) FATHER CDCDCD. D) ABBA ABAB CDCDEE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) FATHER CDCDCD. 15. In Sonnet 60, to what does the speaker compare the passing of time? A) Waves on a shore regularly replacing each other. B) The hands moving around a clock face. C) The falling of leaves from a tree in autumn. D) The wrinkles on an old woman's face. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waves on a shore regularly replacing each other. 16. In a Shakespearean drama, a/an ..... is a long speech made by one character for others to hear. A) Soliloquy. B) Monologue. C) Aside. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 17. A stanza with 8 lines. A) Iambic pentameter. B) Quatrain. C) Sestet. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Octave. 18. Which of these is the most popular Shakespearean sonnet? A) "Death Be Not Proud". B) Sonnet 18 ('Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'). C) "My Glass shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old". D) "Lord of My Love, To Whom in Vassalage". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet 18 ('Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'). 19. How many lines make up a sonnet? A) 12. B) 4. C) 14. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 20. What is the typical subject matter of sonnets? A) Love. B) Nature. C) Technology. D) Important life events. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love. ← 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