This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How did Shakespeare break tradition when he wrote Sonnet 130? A) He wrote about his pet dog instead of a person to mock tradition. B) He wrote about someone he hated to show his dislike of typical sonnets. C) He did not break tradition. He stayed in tradition to show others he could do it. D) He compared a woman to nature, but said she could not compare to nature's beauty as a way to critique other sonnet's unrealistic comparisons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He compared a woman to nature, but said she could not compare to nature's beauty as a way to critique other sonnet's unrealistic comparisons. 2. Select the statement that is NOT a hyperbole. A) Tina's baby sister is smaller than a mustard seed. B) The brick mansion is as grand as the castles in England. C) Amari ate a truckload of lo-mein. D) Carrie's personality is larger than life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The brick mansion is as grand as the castles in England. 3. What is the meter of a poem? A) A rhythm created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. B) A pattern of rhyme. C) The number of lines in the poem. D) The final couplet of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rhythm created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. 4. What is this rhyme scheme an example of?abba abba cde cde A) English. B) Italian. C) Shakespearean. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italian. 5. In Sonnet 12 ( "When I do count the clock that tells the time" ), what idea does the speaker introduce in the opening quatrain and develop in the next quatrain? A) Love will endure. B) Time marches on. C) Beauty is only skin deep. D) Nature is the best teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time marches on. 6. *Quatrains are A) Three lines stanzas of any kind. B) Four line stanzas of any kind. C) Five line stanzas of any kind. D) Ten line stanzas of any kind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Four line stanzas of any kind. 7. Ballads often include cliches. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. What type of poems are sonnets usually? A) Political poems. B) Tragic poems. C) Love poems. D) Comedic poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love poems. 9. How many sonets did he write? A) He wrote 300 sonnets. B) He wrote 154 sonnets. C) He wrote 54 sonnets. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He wrote 154 sonnets. 10. What's the rhyme scheme of a sonnet? A) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. B) ABBA CDDC EFFE GG. C) FATHER DCDC WE ARE GG. D) THE FATHER. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 11. True or False:Women were allowed to act in plays A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. A Shakespearean sonnet uses the Rhyme Scheme of ..... A) AABB CCDD EEFF GG. B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GH. D) ABCD ABCD ABCD EF. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 13. In Shakespeare's sonnet 29, which of the following lines shows a change in tone? A) "Desiring this man's art and that man's scope". B) "With what I most enjoy contented least". C) "Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising". D) "Haply I think on thee, and then my state". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Haply I think on thee, and then my state". 14. A sonnet has A) 13 lines. B) 15 lines. C) 14 lines. D) 20 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14 lines. 15. With what physical limitation is Milton now living? A) Cripple. B) Insane. C) Deaf. D) Blind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blind. 16. Shakespearean Sonnets have how many quatrains? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. E) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 17. In a Shakespearean drama, a/an ..... is a character talking to oneself alone onstage expressing their innermost thoughts, feelings, opinions, or ambitions. A) Soliloquy. B) Monologue. C) Aside. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soliloquy. 18. How many quatrains are contained in an English Sonnet? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 19. A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter and must follow a certain rhyme scheme. A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 20. A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction, as an expression. A) Paradox. B) Parallelism. C) Oxymoron. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. Next →Related QuizzesShakespeare'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 9Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 10Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books