This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 32 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word or small phrase is NOT an example of an iambic rhythm? A) Trapeze. B) Go boom. C) Do now. D) Fall down. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Do now. 2. Who made the sonnet form famous? A) Petrarch. B) Wyatt. C) Shakespeare. D) Burbage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shakespeare. 3. "A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise." What does the speaker's beloved say about his efforts to write her name in the sand? A) She asks him to keep trying so that she can see her name written in the sand. B) She says it is pointless because, just as she will die someday, her name will be wiped out and forgotten. C) She scolds him for doing such a ridiculous thing. D) She praises his efforts for immortalizing her name. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She says it is pointless because, just as she will die someday, her name will be wiped out and forgotten. 4. This sonnet is not directed to (or written about) the Fair Youth, but instead to or about ..... A) Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife). B) The "Dark Lady". C) Queen Elizabeth I. D) The Countess of Southampton. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The "Dark Lady". 5. Petrarch wrote most of his sonnets to a woman named A) Lenore. B) Linda. C) Laura. D) Lulubelle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laura. 6. Shakespearean Sonnets have how many couplets? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. E) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 7. What is a "volta" in a sonnet? A) A moment where the speaker addresses the reader. B) A moment where the tone, rhyme scheme or attitude of the poem change. C) A moment where the meter of the poem is broken. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A moment where the tone, rhyme scheme or attitude of the poem change. 8. Which of the following lines from sonnet 60 best exemplifies the inevitability of time? A) "NATIVITY, ONCE IN THE MAIN OF LIGHT". B) "AND NOTHING STANDS BUT FOR HIS SCYTHE TO MOW". C) "CRAWLS TO MATURITY, WHEREWITH BEING CROWN'D". D) "AND YET TO TIMES IN HOPE MY VERSE SHALL STAND". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "AND NOTHING STANDS BUT FOR HIS SCYTHE TO MOW". 9. Which of the following poems is a parody making fun of another poet's work? A) "Sonnet 130". B) "The White Doe". C) "Sonnet 18". D) "Laura". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Sonnet 130". 10. Sonnets are always 14 lines. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. The scientist decided to conduct an ..... to determine the chemical composition of the newly discovered substance. A) Invention. B) Toil. C) Assay. D) Device. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assay. 12. What nationality is the Petrarchan sonnet? A) English. B) French. C) German. D) Italian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Italian. 13. A foot is an iamb if ..... A) It wears a shoe. B) It consists of one stressed and unstressed syllable. C) It is twelve (12) inches. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It consists of one stressed and unstressed syllable. 14. How many stressed syllables are in:'Your force to break, blow, burn and make me new.' A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 15. In Sidney's Sonnet 31, the speaker addresses the moon. In Sonnet 39, the speaker addresses sleep. What characteristic of a sonnet sequence do these two poems display? A) Each poem leaves the love unfulfilled. B) Each poem uses the heavens symbolically. C) Each poem presents realistic people who share their feelings. D) Each poem presents a speaker who is not sure if he is in love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Each poem leaves the love unfulfilled. 16. What is the shifting part of a sonnet? A) Iambic. B) Time. C) Couplet. D) Line 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time. 17. Which part of the Italian sonnet can change its rhyme scheme? A) Quatrain. B) Octave. C) Sestet. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sestet. 18. Who is famous for writing many sonnets? A) Emily Dickenson. B) Naomi shi ha BN also. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 19. The two ending rhymes are called a couplet. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. In Shakespearean dramas, a/an ..... is an outcome that no one expects to happen. A) Dramatic irony. B) Situational irony. C) Verbal irony. D) Misunderstanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. ← 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