Anne Hathaway Quizzes

Anne Hathaway Quiz

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

Lagoons

Castles

Cliff-tops

Torchlight
2 Who sleeps in the best bed?

Nobody

Guests

Shakespeare's other lover

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

A rhyme

Iambic pentameter

An echo

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

Dive for pearls

Harpoon a trout

Set a net for mussels

Drown
5 What does the speaker compare her husband's kisses to?

Faraway galaxies

Hidden diamonds

Pearls from an oyster

Shooting stars
6 This poem references...

Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream

letters from Shakespeare to a different lover

Shakespeare's will

letters from Anne Hathaway to a different lover
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 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 poetry in his mind

How he held a different lover when he was unfaithful

How he held her in bed

How she idolized him in life
11 What or who plays "romance and drama" in this poem?

Shakespeare's poems

Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare

Touch, scent, and taste

The couples' houseguests
12 Where is this poem's epigraph from?

Anne Hathaway's letters

Shakespeare's letters

Shakespeare's will

Shakespeare's play Antony & Cleopatra
13 Fill in the blanks: "a ____ dancing in the centre of a ____."

verb; noun

noun; adverb

adjective; noun

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

Shakespeare

Herself

Her children

Their guests when awake
15 What form does this poem somewhat follow?

A Petrarchan sonnet

A sestina

A Shakespearean sonnet

A villanelle
16 Which of the following is true?

This poem uses onomatopoeia heavily

This poem strictly follows iambic pentameter

This poem follows a strict rhyme scheme

This poem does not follow a strict rhyme scheme
17 Fill in the blanks: "Some nights I dreamed he’d written me, the ____/ a ____ beneath his writer’s hands."

bed; page

love; book

bed; play

will; story
18 This poem is in third person.

False

True
19 Which of the following is true?

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

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

Shakespeare and Hathaway's home

In the streets of London

On a cliff-top

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

world

orb

poem

forest
22 When is this poem being told?

After Shakespeare's death

After Shakespeare's father's death

After Hathaway's death

On the night of Shakespeare and Hathaway's wedding
23 Fill in the blank: "In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on, dribbling their ____."

prose

drool

dreams

poetry
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.

False

True

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