Anne Hathaway Quizzes

Anne Hathaway Quiz

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

Lagoons

Torchlight

Cliff-tops

Castles
2 Who sleeps in the best bed?

Nobody

Shakespeare's other lover

Shakespeare

Guests
3 Which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her body to?

An echo

Assonance

A rhyme

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

Drown

Dive for pearls

Set a net for mussels

Harpoon a trout
5 What does the speaker compare her husband's kisses to?

Hidden diamonds

Faraway galaxies

Shooting stars

Pearls from an oyster
6 This poem references...

letters from Anne Hathaway to a different lover

letters from Shakespeare to a different lover

Shakespeare's will

Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream
7 To what does the speaker compare her head?

A tomb

A hammock

A casket

A bird's nest
8 What does the speaker dream?

That she is back with her husband again

That her husband was still alive

That her husband has written a play about her

That her husband had written her
9 What does the speaker refer to as "a spinning world?"

The first-best bed

The sea

The second-best bed

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

How he held a different lover when he was unfaithful

How he held poetry in his mind

How she idolized him in life

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

Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare

The couples' houseguests

Shakespeare's poems

Touch, scent, and taste
12 Where is this poem's epigraph from?

Shakespeare's play Antony & Cleopatra

Shakespeare's will

Shakespeare's letters

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

noun; adverb

noun; verb

adjective; noun

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

Their guests when awake

Herself

Her children

Shakespeare
15 What form does this poem somewhat follow?

A villanelle

A sestina

A Shakespearean sonnet

A Petrarchan sonnet
16 Which of the following is true?

This poem uses onomatopoeia heavily

This poem does not follow a strict rhyme scheme

This poem strictly follows iambic pentameter

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."

love; book

bed; page

will; story

bed; play
18 This poem is in third person.

True

False
19 Which of the following is true?

This poem means to revitalize the speaker's memory of Shakespeare.

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 fictionalize Shakespeare's life.

This poem means to strip Shakespeare of his significance and remind the readers of his flaws.
20 Where does most of this poem seem to take place?

On a cliff-top

In the streets of London

Shakespeare and Hathaway's home

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

forest

orb

poem

world
22 When is this poem being told?

On the night of Shakespeare and Hathaway's wedding

After Hathaway's death

After Shakespeare's death

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

dreams

prose

poetry

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

False

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

True

False

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