This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 33 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 33 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one is the correct rhyme scheme for sonnets? A) Abcd abcd efgh efgh ii. B) Aabb ccdd eeff gghh ii. C) Abab cdcd efef gg. D) Aabb ccdd eeff gg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abab cdcd efef gg. 2. What makes a sonnet? A) Fourteen lines. B) Three Quatrains. C) Two octaves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fourteen lines. 3. Shakespeare uses a sonnet which, initially at least, points out the flaws of his (supposed) lover. This use of the sonnet is an example of ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Irony. C) Satire. D) Litotes. E) Commission. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 4. When the speaker in Sonnet 29 says "Haply I think on thee, and then my state, /Like to the lark at break of day arising/ From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate" he is comparing thinking about his love to A) The death of a loved one. B) Birds singing at daybreak. C) Being worried in the nighttime. D) Singing along with the birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birds singing at daybreak. 5. Sonnets Composed Upon Westminster bridge is the description of A) A bridge. B) River Thames. C) A ship. D) The city of London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The city of London. 6. Have 14 lines-divided into an octave and a sestet-that follow the rhyme scheme ABB ABBA CDCCDC or ABBA ABBA CDECDE. A) Spenserian. B) Petrarchan. C) Shakespearean. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petrarchan. 7. In "Sonnet XIX", Milton is facing what kind of crisis? A) Midlife. B) Faith. C) Love. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Midlife. 8. How many quatrains are in a Shakespearean sonnet? A) 14. B) 2. C) 5. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 9. Why was iambic pentameter preferred by Shakespeare's actors? A) It was naturally suited to the English language. B) The queen despised iambic tetrameter. C) Only the upper class could understand it. D) It was Shakespeare's personal preference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was naturally suited to the English language. 10. What is the figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things by using "like" or "as?" A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 11. Comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other is ..... A) Smile. B) Meataphor. C) Rhyme. D) Simile. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Metaphor. 12. Comparing two unlike things using like or as is a ..... A) Smile. B) Meataphor. C) Rhyme. D) Simile. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 13. What are most closely the themes of Sonnet 18? A) Nature and man. B) Beauty and death. C) Love and immortality. D) Uncertainty and time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love and immortality. 14. Shakespearean sonnet has ..... quatrains followed by a ..... A) Poems, speaker. B) Three, couplet. C) Quarters, couple. D) Quarts, cups. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three, couplet. 15. Shakespearean Sonnets have how many stanzas? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. E) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 16. What is iambic meter? A) A "foot" with an unstressed and stressed syllable (u /). B) A "foot" with a stressed and unstressed syllable (/ u). C) A line with 10 syllables. D) A line with a varied meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A "foot" with an unstressed and stressed syllable (u /). 17. What is the rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnets? A) AA BB CC DD EE FF GG. B) AB AB CDCD CDCD EFEF. C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 18. Sonnets are usually written in iambic pentameter. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. William Shakespeare is the only person who ever wrote sonnets. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Which of the following meanings of prime is used in this sentence?The garden was lovely two weeks ago, but now it is past its prime. A) First in rank, value or quality; excellent. B) The earliest part of something; the beginning. C) The best, most vigorous, or most fully mature stage of something. D) Of a number that can be divided evenly by no number except itself andthe number one. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The best, most vigorous, or most fully mature stage of something. ← 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