This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Toil A) Exhausting labor or effort. B) Failure. C) Struggle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exhausting labor or effort. 2. A volta in a sonnet is normally A) The emotions of the poet. B) The total number of lines. C) The last punctuation mark at the end of the 14 lines. D) The punctuation mark that normally separates a set of lines or a redirection of thought in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The punctuation mark that normally separates a set of lines or a redirection of thought in the poem. 3. A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an accented, unaccented pattern. A) Trochee. B) Iamb. C) Pentameter. D) Octometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trochee. 4. A quatrain has how many lines? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. E) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 5. An "iamb" is a part of the poem's meter that has ..... syllables. A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 6. How many feet of iambic pentameter are in most Shakespearean poems? A) 5. B) 2. C) 1. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 7. Octave is a stanza with ..... A) Eight lines. B) Six lines. C) Four lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eight lines. 8. Over how many letters did Elizabeth and Robert Browning exchange? A) Over 800. B) Over 300. C) Over 200. D) Over 500. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Over 500. 9. Which of the following best describes the speaker in Shakespeare's sonnet 116? A) An experienced, reflective person. B) A witty, critical person. C) An old judgemental person. D) A naive, loving person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An experienced, reflective person. 10. In Sonnet 73, at what stage of life is the speaker of this poem? A) The prime of his youth. B) Recently married. C) Middle age. D) Old and very near death. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Middle age. 11. A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unstressed, stressed. A) Iambic pentameter. B) Iambic tetrameter. C) Trochee pentameter. D) Trochee tetrameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 12. What might the repeating lines in a villanelle symbolize? A) Confusion. B) Emphasis on a theme. C) Lack of creativity. D) Freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emphasis on a theme. 13. Which lines rhyme in each Shakespearean sonnet? A) Lines 1 and 2; lines 3 and 4. B) Lines 1 and 4; lines 2 and 3. C) Lines 1 and 3; lines 2 and 4. D) Lines 3 and 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lines 1 and 3; lines 2 and 4. 14. Each quatrain in a sonnet has how many lines? A) A quatrain has four lines. B) A quatrain has three lines. C) A quatrain has two rhyming lines. D) A quatrain has six lines that all rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A quatrain has four lines. 15. Stay somewhere temporarily. A) Exults. B) Sojourn. C) Crone. D) Languishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sojourn. 16. What was the conflict that Milton had when he was twenty-three? A) His success was starting to overwhelm him. B) He realized that he has not yet done anything successful. C) He wants to finally stop writing because it is a waste of his time. D) He disapproves of his talent in writing because it does not pay much. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He realized that he has not yet done anything successful. 17. What does the following symbol mean? / A) Unstressed. B) Stressed. C) Lowercase. D) Upper case. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stressed. 18. What are English sonnets often called, and why? A) Shakespearean, because he created that sonnet. B) Shakespearean, because he is the only published poet we have of sonnets. C) Shakespearean, because he is the most well-known sonnet writer. D) Petrarchan, because he created the sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shakespearean, because he is the most well-known sonnet writer. 19. What is the rhyming format for sonnets? A) ABBA. B) BABA. C) CDCD. D) Father. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Father. 20. What are some themes that sonnets cover? A) Death, graves, and sepulchers. B) The passage of time, love, infidelity, jealousy, beauty, and mortality. C) Yesterday, today and tomorrow. D) Fashion, headgear, and shoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The passage of time, love, infidelity, jealousy, beauty, and mortality. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesShakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 1Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 2Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 3Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 5Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 6Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 7Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 8Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 9Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books