Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 11 (20 MCQs)

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1. Classic sonnets normally have the following components:

Correct Answer: A) An octave and a sestet.

2. Sonnets are usually .....

Correct Answer: B) Praising something.

3. Shakespeare's love is not true.

Correct Answer: B) False.

4. How is a Spenserian sonnet different from a Petrarchan sonnet?

Correct Answer: C) A Spenserian sonnet has a different rhyme scheme.

5. What is the arrangement of words in a sentence or phrase called?

Correct Answer: B) Syntax.

6. In lines 9-13 of Sonnet 30, the speaker implies she might

Correct Answer: C) Trade her love for some necessity.

7. What's the rhyme scheme of a limerick?

Correct Answer: B) THE FATHER.

8. Which of the following best illustrates a trochee?

Correct Answer: B) /U.

9. A group of 6 lines in a sonnet is called a/an

Correct Answer: D) Sestet.

10. Satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full.

Correct Answer: A) Sated.

11. How many lines per stanza/paragraph in a sonnet?

Correct Answer: D) 4.

12. How many iambs in a line?

Correct Answer: B) 5.

13. 2 rhymed lines at the end of a sonnet is called a

Correct Answer: A) Couplet.

14. Which of Shakespeare's children died at a young age?

Correct Answer: C) Hamnet.

15. How does the sonnet form affect the content of the poem?

Correct Answer: C) It shortens ideas so they fit into four-line quatrains.

16. What is the basic form of a sonnet?

Correct Answer: A) Fourteen lines.

17. How many syllables does a line of IAMBIC PENTAMETER have?

Correct Answer: C) 10.

18. In Petrarch's sonnet 169, what is his main problem?

Correct Answer: B) He's so in love with Laura he can't tell her.

19. Iambic is a pattern of .....

Correct Answer: C) One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

20. Although a sonnet contains only one stanza, its structure has ..... 'parts'.

Correct Answer: B) 4.