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Shakespeare's Sonnets Quiz 1

  • 1. How many sonnets are there in total?
    •     126
    •     153
    •     154
    •     156

  • 2. Which of the following best sums up the lines of sonnet 1?
    •     My love for you is independent of the beauty that you possess.
    •     You are so obsessed with your own appearance that you are unable to see all the beauty that surrounds you.
    •     You owe it to the world to have a child so that future generations may appreciate your beauty after you have passed away.
    •     Time destroys all in its path.

  • 3. In sonnet 18, which of the following does the poet NOT mention as a fault in the beauty of a summer's day?
    •     Sometimes the sun beats down too hard.
    •     The birds lament the coming of fall.
    •     Sometimes the sun is covered with clouds.
    •     The summer season ends too quickly.

  • 4. Which of the following best describes a quatrain?
    •     a four-line, typically rhyming unit of verse
    •     a poem of fourteen lines, typically featuring rhyme, meter, and logical structure
    •     a two-line, typically rhyming unit of verse
    •     a type of metrical foot

  • 5. In what year was Shakespeare born?
    •     1564
    •     1598
    •     1609
    •     1616

  • 6. Which of the following appellations does the poet ascribe to the fair lord in sonnet 20?
    •     "my lovely boy"
    •     "master-mistress of my passion"
    •     "centre of my sinful earth"
    •     "sweet up-locked treasure"

  • 7. In sonnet 30, which of the following best paraphrases the line "Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow"?
    •     Then I can cry with eyes that are not used to shedding tears
    •     Then I can cry over the injury of many faded memories
    •     Then I can submerge my head in water, my eyes not used to the pressure
    •     Then I can grieve over things anew as though I never did before

  • 8. Which two sonnets focus on a mythical story involving Cupid?
    •     sonnets 20 and 52
    •     sonnets 129 and 130
    •     sonnets 153 and 154
    •     sonnets 126 and 127

  • 9. Which of the following best sums up the lines of sonnet 52?
    •     Others' words may speak highly of you, but mine come from the heart.
    •     What have I done to lose your affection?
    •     Your beauty is all the more precious since it is so seldom delighted in.
    •     Nature gave you the face of a woman.

  • 10. Which of the following lines from sonnet 60 best exemplifies the inevitability of time?
    •     "Nativity, once in the main of light"
    •     "And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand"
    •     "And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow"
    •     "Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd"

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