A Lover's Complaint - Quiz
A Lover s Complaint
  • 1. In which year was 'A Lover's Complaint' published as part of Shakespeare's Sonnets?
A) 1609
B) 1588
C) 1593
D) 1616
  • 2. Who published 'A Lover's Complaint' in 1609?
A) John Heminges
B) Henry Condell
C) Edward Blount
D) Thomas Thorpe
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) ABABBCC
B) ABABCDCD
C) ABBAABB
D) AABBCCDD
  • 4. How many stanzas are in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Forty-seven
B) Twenty-one
C) Thirty-five
D) Fifty
  • 5. What form is used in 'A Lover's Complaint' that is also used in 'The Rape of Lucrece'?
A) Blank verse
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Rhyme royal
D) Heroic couplet
  • 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Robertson
B) Hazlitt
C) Edmond Malone
D) John Kerrigan
  • 7. Which literary scholar suggested that the poem might be by Chapman in 1917?
A) Robertson
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Kenneth Muir
D) Eliot Slater
  • 8. Which of these poets' works is not mentioned as an example of the female-voiced complaint?
A) Michael Drayton
B) Thomas Lodge
C) Edmund Spenser
D) Samuel Daniel
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Inferior
B) Beautiful
C) Confusing
D) Monotonous
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Hamlet
B) All's Well That Ends Well
C) Othello
D) Measure for Measure
  • 11. Who suggested that the poem might have been written by John Davies of Hereford?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Brian Vickers
D) Eliot Slater
  • 12. Which word is not listed as a verbal parallel between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Outwardly
B) Fire
C) Spongy
D) Physic
  • 13. Which database did Vickers use to find parallels between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Project Gutenberg
B) LION
C) Google Books
D) JSTOR
  • 14. Which critic called Vickers' omission of the poem from the RSC Complete Works a 'mistake'?
A) MacDonald P. Jackson
B) Kenneth Muir
C) Eliot Slater
D) Harold Love
  • 15. What is the title of John Kerrigan's work that discusses 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Motives of Woe
B) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
C) The Elizabethan Complaint
D) Shakespearean Sonnets
  • 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Sonnets by Samuel Daniel
B) Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
C) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
D) Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • 17. Which of these is not a characteristic feature of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) It contains sonnets.
B) It begins with a young woman weeping.
C) It includes an old man who asks about her sorrow.
D) It recounts a story of seduction and abandonment.
  • 18. Which literary form is 'A Lover's Complaint' similar to?
A) Female-voiced complaint
B) Ode
C) Ballad
D) Elegy
  • 19. What was Harold Love's critique of Vickers' suggestion regarding the authorship?
A) Love suggested that the poem was written by an anonymous early Elizabethan poet.
B) Vickers' investigation favored voluminous authors like Davies due to their extensive output.
C) Vickers provided conclusive evidence for Shakespeare's authorship.
D) Love agreed with Vickers that John Davies was the true author.
  • 20. Which plays did MacDonald P. Jackson find contained all three words: 'spongy', 'outwardly', and 'physic'?
A) Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and 'A Lover's Complaint'
B) As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and 'Richard III'
C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and 'The Tempest'
D) Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and 'Henry IV'
  • 21. Which Shakespearean plays are thematically paralleled in 'A Lover's Complaint' according to critics?
A) The Tempest and Twelfth Night
B) Hamlet and Othello
C) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
D) Macbeth and King Lear
  • 22. Who approaches the young woman to ask about her sorrow in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) A friend
B) Her former lover
C) An old man
D) A shepherd
  • 23. Which critic called 'A Lover's Complaint' 'beautiful'?
A) Edmond Malone
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Eliot Slater
D) Kenneth Muir
  • 24. What narrative triangle is present in both 'A Lover's Complaint' and Shakespeare's sonnets?
A) Hero, villain, victim
B) Young woman, elderly man, seductive suitor
C) Father, mother, child
D) King, queen, knight
  • 25. What quality of John Davies' style did Harold Love compare to Ned Ward's?
A) Chameleonlike quality
B) Unique vocabulary
C) Simplistic themes
D) Complex syntax
  • 26. What evidence did Brian Vickers use to argue against Shakespeare's authorship?
A) Historical records of Shakespeare's life
B) Analysis of the poem's meter and rhyme
C) Numerous verbal parallels with John Davies' works
D) Thematic similarities with other Elizabethan poems
  • 27. What is the main argument against Brian Vickers' suggestion that John Davies wrote 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) John Davies never mentioned writing poetry
B) The poem was widely accepted as Shakespeare's work
C) There are no verbal parallels with Davies' works
D) The evidence is very meagre
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