This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Shakespeare'S Sonnets – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Shakespeare'S Sonnets Quiz 23 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Spenser's Sonnet 75, the speaker writes his love's name in the sand. What is his main message to his love in this poem? A) He will love her forever. B) His poem will make their love immortal. C) Their love has survived great suffering. D) The pleasures of love end with death. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His poem will make their love immortal. 2. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is the opening line to A) 3. B) 18. C) 34. D) 127. E) 130. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 18. 3. What is the main theme of the poem 'Do not go gentle into that good night'? A) The joys of a peaceful death. B) The inevitability of death and the futility of resistance. C) The celebration of a life well-lived. D) The struggle against death and the importance of fighting until the end. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The struggle against death and the importance of fighting until the end. 4. Sonnets are typically associated with notions of ..... A) Anger and Aggression. B) Contemplation and Spirituality. C) Desire and Admiration. D) Petrarch and Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desire and Admiration. 5. Iambic pentameter means each line has (a) syllables. A) 8. B) A 10. C) 14. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A 10. 6. Which poetry type can be English/Shakespearean or Italian/Petrarchan? A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Villanelles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 7. Which stage of man is full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel. A) Infant. B) School boy. C) Lover. D) Soldier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soldier. 8. Although more than half of the lines in this sonnet are pure iambic pentameter, there are several lines with interesting variations. Which of these lines features an extra syllable? A) 4. B) 5. C) 9. D) 11. E) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9. 9. The pattern of rhymes made by the final words or sounds in the lines of a poem, typically designated by a different letter of the alphabet to represent each rhyme A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme. 10. What is the turn in a sonnet? A) A new speaker is introduced. B) The rhythm and/or rhyme scheme changes. C) Shift in thought-something changes. D) It is a shift from one stanza to the next. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shift in thought-something changes. 11. The houses of London seem A) Asleep. B) Awake. C) Shaken and tattered. D) Amazed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asleep. 12. When two consecutive lines end in the same word sound. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Stanza. C) Meter. D) Iamb. E) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Couplet. 13. What country are sonnets originally from? A) England. B) Italy. C) Ireland. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 14. What is a common topic for a villanelle? A) Love. B) Loss. C) Nature. D) Rage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loss. 15. Sonnets are usually about A) Flowers. B) War. C) Death. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love. 16. The following are all elements of a sonnet except A) Fourteen lines. B) Definite rhyme scheme. C) Both A & B. D) Neither A nor B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A & B. 17. This period in time preceded The Renaissance. A) The Scientific Revolution. B) The Middle Ages. C) The Reformation. D) The Age of Discovery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Middle Ages. 18. In which country did sonnets originate from? A) Italy. B) Germany. C) England. D) Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italy. 19. The last two lines that end a sonnet are ..... A) A quatrain. B) A couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A couplet. 20. Is a variation on the Shakespearean sonnet, with a more challenging rhyme scheme:ABAB BCBC CDCD EE? A) Spenserian. B) Shakespearean. C) Petrarchan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spenserian. ← 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