This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 15 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are the two types of sonnets we covered? A) Villanelle and Italian. B) Italian and Shakespearean. C) English and French. D) Haiku and Sonku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italian and Shakespearean. 2. The last two lines of a Shakespearean Sonnet A) Do not rhyme. B) Resolve a problem. C) Tell you what the problem or themes is. D) All of the above (optional). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resolve a problem. 3. Which Italian poet is credited with establishing the sonnet as a major poetic form? A) Ronsard. B) Petrarch. C) Boccaccio. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petrarch. 4. Ballads are part of the oral tradition. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Shakespeare's sonnets have what kind of rhyme scheme? A) Abba cddc effe gg. B) Abab cdcd efef gg. C) Abcd abcd abcd ee. D) Abab abab cdcd of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abab cdcd efef gg. 6. What is the main characteristic of a villanelle? A) It has a specific rhyme scheme. B) It has a lot of humor. C) It has a repeated refrain. D) It uses free verse. . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It has a repeated refrain. 7. What type of poetry has no set rhyme scheme, rhythm, or line length? A) Free Verse. B) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. 8. A poem of 14 lines typically having 10 syllables per lines. A) Sestet. B) Ballad. C) Sonnet. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 9. What is the structure of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet? A) Quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet. B) Quatrain, quatrain, couplet, couplet. C) Octave, quatrain, sestet. D) At eight, it stops. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At eight, it stops. 10. "Love's not Time's fool" is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. The last six lines contain the A) Resolution. B) Theme. C) Exposition. D) Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resolution. 12. Petrarchan sonnets and Shakepearean sonnets have the same rhyme scheme A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 13. Who was the popular English playwright and poet who lived in the 16th century who wrote 154 Sonnets? A) Shakespeare. B) Chaucer. C) Waldon. D) Hinton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shakespeare. 14. In a sonnet, each line should consist of A) One syllables with two unstressed and three stressed syllables. B) Two syllables with three unstressed and four stressed syllables. C) Five syllables with ten unstressed and ten stressed syllables. D) Unstressed followed by a stressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unstressed followed by a stressed syllable. 15. This large theater built by Shakespeare in 1599 fit commoners on the ground and the wealthy on the balconies. A) Pantages Theater. B) Broadway Theater. C) Queen's Theater. D) Globe Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Globe Theater. 16. What is the name of the last 2 lines of a sonnet? A) Triplet. B) Pentameter. C) Couplet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 17. Shakespearean sonnets have a rhymed couplet at the end. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 18. How is a spanish sonnet set up A) 2 quartets and 2 triplets. B) 2 quartets and 6 triplets. C) 3 quartets and 2 triplets. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2 quartets and 2 triplets. 19. What type of sonnet has the following rhyme scheme:ABBA ABBA CDCDCD A) Shakespearean. B) Spenserian. C) Petrarchan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Petrarchan. 20. The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet are called the A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time. ← 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