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A Lover's Complaint - Quiz
Contributed by: Morris
  • 1. In which year was 'A Lover's Complaint' published as part of Shakespeare's Sonnets?
A) 1588
B) 1609
C) 1616
D) 1593
  • 2. Who published 'A Lover's Complaint' in 1609?
A) Henry Condell
B) Thomas Thorpe
C) Edward Blount
D) John Heminges
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) ABBAABB
B) AABBCCDD
C) ABABBCC
D) ABABCDCD
  • 4. How many stanzas are in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Thirty-five
B) Twenty-one
C) Fifty
D) Forty-seven
  • 5. What form is used in 'A Lover's Complaint' that is also used in 'The Rape of Lucrece'?
A) Iambic pentameter
B) Rhyme royal
C) Heroic couplet
D) Blank verse
  • 6. Who first expressed doubts about Shakespeare's authorship of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) John Kerrigan
B) Robertson
C) Hazlitt
D) Edmond Malone
  • 7. Which literary scholar suggested that the poem might be by Chapman in 1917?
A) Eliot Slater
B) Robertson
C) Kenneth Muir
D) MacDonald P. Jackson
  • 8. Which of these poets' works is not mentioned as an example of the female-voiced complaint?
A) Michael Drayton
B) Edmund Spenser
C) Thomas Lodge
D) Samuel Daniel
  • 9. What does Edmond Malone call 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Confusing
B) Beautiful
C) Monotonous
D) Inferior
  • 10. Which play is not mentioned as having thematic parallels to 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Othello
B) Measure for Measure
C) All's Well That Ends Well
D) Hamlet
  • 11. Who suggested that the poem might have been written by John Davies of Hereford?
A) Eliot Slater
B) Kenneth Muir
C) Brian Vickers
D) MacDonald P. Jackson
  • 12. Which word is not listed as a verbal parallel between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Outwardly
B) Fire
C) Physic
D) Spongy
  • 13. Which database did Vickers use to find parallels between the 'Complaint' and Davies' works?
A) Project Gutenberg
B) LION
C) JSTOR
D) Google Books
  • 14. Which critic called Vickers' omission of the poem from the RSC Complete Works a 'mistake'?
A) Harold Love
B) Eliot Slater
C) MacDonald P. Jackson
D) Kenneth Muir
  • 15. What is the title of John Kerrigan's work that discusses 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) Shakespearean Sonnets
B) Motives of Woe
C) Narrative Poetry in Shakespeare
D) The Elizabethan Complaint
  • 16. Which sonnet sequence is 'A Lover's Complaint' appended to?
A) Sonnets by Edmund Spenser
B) Sonnets by Samuel Daniel
C) Shakespeare's Sonnets
D) Sonnets by Richard Barnfield
  • 17. Which of these is not a characteristic feature of 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) It recounts a story of seduction and abandonment.
B) It includes an old man who asks about her sorrow.
C) It begins with a young woman weeping.
D) It contains sonnets.
  • 18. Which literary form is 'A Lover's Complaint' similar to?
A) Ballad
B) Female-voiced complaint
C) Elegy
D) Ode
  • 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 provided conclusive evidence for Shakespeare's authorship.
C) Love agreed with Vickers that John Davies was the true author.
D) Vickers' investigation favored voluminous authors like Davies due to their extensive output.
  • 20. Which plays did MacDonald P. Jackson find contained all three words: 'spongy', 'outwardly', and 'physic'?
A) Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and 'Henry IV'
B) Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and 'A Lover's Complaint'
C) As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and 'Richard III'
D) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and 'The Tempest'
  • 21. Which Shakespearean plays are thematically paralleled in 'A Lover's Complaint' according to critics?
A) Hamlet and Othello
B) The Tempest and Twelfth Night
C) Macbeth and King Lear
D) All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
  • 22. Who approaches the young woman to ask about her sorrow in 'A Lover's Complaint'?
A) A shepherd
B) An old man
C) Her former lover
D) A friend
  • 23. Which critic called 'A Lover's Complaint' 'beautiful'?
A) Kenneth Muir
B) MacDonald P. Jackson
C) Eliot Slater
D) Edmond Malone
  • 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) Unique vocabulary
B) Complex syntax
C) Chameleonlike quality
D) Simplistic themes
  • 26. What evidence did Brian Vickers use to argue against Shakespeare's authorship?
A) Historical records of Shakespeare's life
B) Thematic similarities with other Elizabethan poems
C) Analysis of the poem's meter and rhyme
D) Numerous verbal parallels with John Davies' works
  • 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 evidence is very meagre
C) There are no verbal parallels with Davies' works
D) The poem was widely accepted as Shakespeare's work
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