This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following words is NOT considered a shift word? A) And. B) But. C) Yet. D) Nor. E) To. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) To. 2. What type of sonnet has a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA CDCDCD and is made up of on octave and a sestet? A) English/Shakespearean. B) Italian/Petrarchan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italian/Petrarchan. 3. How many lines does a Shakespearean sonnet have? A) 12. B) 14. C) 16. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14. 4. What is the speaker's problem that is revealed in the three quatrains of Sonnet 29? A) His beloved has left him. B) His beloved does not return his love. C) He is absorbed in feelings of self-pity. D) He is a frustrated artist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is absorbed in feelings of self-pity. 5. What is unusual about the woman Petrarch wrote his sonnets about? A) She didn't actually exist. B) She hated having poems written about her. C) He never actually got to know her. D) She was nothing like what the sonnets said about her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He never actually got to know her. 6. Shakespeare is said to have written ..... plays and ..... sonnets. A) 154; 37. B) 37; 154. C) 15; 130. D) 50; 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 37; 154. 7. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. In Petrarch's sonnet 292 what has happened? A) Laura is returning his love. B) Laura has told him to leave her alone. C) Laura has fallen for another man. D) Laura has died. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laura has died. 9. All of Shakespearean Sonnets rhyme. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. A iambic pentameter has ten feet A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet? A) ABCD CDBD EFCD GG. B) ABAB CCAB EEAB GG. C) AABB CCDD EEFF GG. D) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 12. Which of these is NOT a genre of Shakespeares' plays? A) Comedy. B) History. C) Horror. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horror. 13. The speaker is in the city of A) Liverpool. B) Manchester. C) London. D) Birmingham. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London. 14. What 20th century American poet is known for her sonnets? A) Willa Cather. B) Flannery O'Connor. C) Edna St. Vincent Millay. D) Toni Morrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edna St. Vincent Millay. 15. What is it that makes a set of lines? A) The rhyme scheme. B) A similar font. C) Sound rhyme only. D) The mood of the lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rhyme scheme. 16. What is the rhythm/meter of this line? "Kings and queens do often sleep here." A) Iambic pentameter. B) Trochaic tetrameter. C) Iambic tetrameter. D) Trochaic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trochaic tetrameter. 17. What is it called when a line has 10 syllables? A) Iambic hexameter. B) Iambic octometer. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Iambic rectameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 18. The rhyme scheme of the first eight lines of sonnet 43 is A) Aabbccdd. B) The fathers. C) The father of the. D) Abcdabcd. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The father of the. 19. The first twelve lines of a sonnet ..... A) Tell you the problem or theme. B) Do not rhyme. C) Resolve the problem. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tell you the problem or theme. 20. Translate:He hath taken o'er th' kingdom. A) He have taken over the kingdom. B) He has taken over the kingdom. C) He has taken o'er the kingdom. D) He has taken over th' kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He has taken over the kingdom. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 9Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books