Shakespeare's Sonnets Quizzes

Shakespeare's Sonnets Quiz 4

1. In what year were the sonnets first published?

• 1564
• 1598
• 1609
• 1616

2. Which of the following lines from later sonnets most closely resembles the line "Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel" in sonnet 1?

• "Mad in pursuit and in possession so" (sonnet 129)
• "Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by" (sonnet 73)
• "But thy eternal summer shall not fade" (sonnet 18)
• "Which borrow'd from this holy fire of Love" (sonnet 153)

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