Anne Hathaway Quizzes

Anne Hathaway Quiz

1 Which of the following images does the speaker NOT compare to "the bed we loved in"?

Castles

Cliff-tops

Torchlight

Lagoons
2 Who sleeps in the best bed?

Shakespeare

Shakespeare's other lover

Guests

Nobody
3 Which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her body to?

Iambic pentameter

An echo

A rhyme

Assonance
4 What does the speaker's husband do in the metaphorical seas?

Set a net for mussels

Harpoon a trout

Drown

Dive for pearls
5 What does the speaker compare her husband's kisses to?

Pearls from an oyster

Shooting stars

Faraway galaxies

Hidden diamonds
6 This poem references...

letters from Anne Hathaway to a different lover

Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream

letters from Shakespeare to a different lover

Shakespeare's will
7 To what does the speaker compare her head?

A hammock

A casket

A bird's nest

A tomb
8 What does the speaker dream?

That her husband was still alive

That her husband has written a play about her

That her husband had written her

That she is back with her husband again
9 What does the speaker refer to as "a spinning world?"

The forest

The first-best bed

The second-best bed

The sea
10 To what does the speaker compare how she holds her husband in the "casket" of her head?

How he held poetry in his mind

How he held a different lover when he was unfaithful

How she idolized him in life

How he held her in bed
11 What or who plays "romance and drama" in this poem?

The couples' houseguests

Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare

Touch, scent, and taste

Shakespeare's poems
12 Where is this poem's epigraph from?

Shakespeare's will

Shakespeare's letters

Shakespeare's play Antony & Cleopatra

Anne Hathaway's letters
13 Fill in the blanks: "a ____ dancing in the centre of a ____."

noun; adverb

verb; noun

adjective; noun

noun; verb
14 Whom does the speaker refer to as "living laughing?"

Her children

Their guests when awake

Herself

Shakespeare
15 What form does this poem somewhat follow?

A sestina

A Petrarchan sonnet

A villanelle

A Shakespearean sonnet
16 Which of the following is true?

This poem uses onomatopoeia heavily

This poem strictly follows iambic pentameter

This poem does not follow a strict rhyme scheme

This poem follows a strict rhyme scheme
17 Fill in the blanks: "Some nights I dreamed he’d written me, the ____/ a ____ beneath his writer’s hands."

will; story

love; book

bed; page

bed; play
18 This poem is in third person.

False

True
19 Which of the following is true?

This poem means to fictionalize Shakespeare's life.

This poem means to show the female perspective of a well-known historical moment that is usually interpreted from the male perspective.

This poem means to strip Shakespeare of his significance and remind the readers of his flaws.

This poem means to revitalize the speaker's memory of Shakespeare.
20 Where does most of this poem seem to take place?

In the streets of London

Shakespeare and Hathaway's home

On a cliff-top

At the bottom of the ocean
21 Fill in the blank: "The bed we loved in was a spinning ____"

world

forest

poem

orb
22 When is this poem being told?

After Shakespeare's father's death

On the night of Shakespeare and Hathaway's wedding

After Shakespeare's death

After Hathaway's death
23 Fill in the blank: "In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on, dribbling their ____."

drool

poetry

dreams

prose
24 The speaker never names Shakespeare in the poem, instead referring to him as her lover.

True

False
25 The title character of this poem is the object of this speaker's desire.

False

True

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