A) 160 B) 200 C) 126 D) 154
A) Love's Labour's Lost B) Romeo and Juliet C) Much Ado About Nothing D) Henry V
A) A fictional character with no historical basis B) William Hughes, a young actor C) An unnamed young man addressed by the poet D) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
A) AABB CCDD EEFF GG B) ABC ABC DEF DEF GG C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG D) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
A) The Rival Poet B) The narrator C) The Dark Lady D) The Fair Youth
A) Three quatrains and a final couplet B) 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal C) An epic poem D) 154 sonnets
A) John Davies of Hereford B) Ben Jonson C) Francis Davison D) A composite of several poets
A) Rejection and independence B) Infidelity and betrayal C) Lust and homoeroticism D) Admiration for the youth's beauty and a plea to marry and have children
A) Leaves of Grass B) Paradise Lost C) Shakespeare's Sonnets D) The Canterbury Tales
A) The beginning of the poem B) The end of the poem C) A turn or shift in thought or mood D) A repetition of ideas
A) Romeo and Juliet B) Love's Labour's Lost C) Much Ado About Nothing D) Henry V
A) It identifies him as the Fair Youth B) It reveals him to be the Dark Lady C) It is a subject of speculation regarding his identity D) It confirms Mr. W.H. as the author
A) Petrarchan sonnet B) English or Shakespearean sonnet C) Free verse D) Spenserian sonnet
A) The misery of a woman victimized by male desire B) The beauty of nature C) The triumphs of love D) The adventures of a knight
A) Love's Labour's Lost B) Romeo and Juliet C) Much Ado About Nothing D) Henry V
A) They are free verse B) They consist of three quatrains and a couplet C) They follow the Shakespearean sonnet form D) They are written in rhyme royal
A) William Hughes B) Ben Jonson C) Edward Alleyn D) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
A) Rejection of her advances B) Praise for her beauty C) Admiration for her intelligence D) Overt sexuality and a defiant departure from traditional themes
A) Iambic pentameter B) Trochaic tetrameter C) Anapestic trimeter D) Dactylic hexameter
A) Much Ado About Nothing B) Romeo and Juliet C) All’s Well that Ends Well D) Henry V
A) Edward Alleyn B) Thomas Thorpe C) George Eld D) William Shakespeare
A) The Rape of Lucrece B) A Lover's Complaint C) Venus and Adonis D) The Phoenix and the Turtle
A) 126 B) 14 C) 40 D) 28
A) Thomas Thorpe B) William Aspley C) John Wright D) George Eld
A) AABBCCDDEEFFGG B) ABABBCBCCDCDDC C) ABBAABBACDCDCD D) ABABCDCDEFEFGG
A) Five B) Eight C) Twenty D) Thirteen
A) Thomas Thorpe B) Mr. W.H. C) William Shakespeare D) The Earl of Southampton
A) Volpone B) Epigrammes (1616) C) The Alchemist D) Every Man in His Humour
A) Thomas Kyd B) Ben Jonson C) William Haughton D) Christopher Marlowe
A) Richard Burbage B) Edward Alleyn C) William Hart D) Hamnet Shakespeare
A) Resolution B) Climax C) Volta D) Denouement
A) Samuel Johnson B) Thomas Tyrwhitt C) Edmund Malone D) Oscar Wilde
A) Female roles B) Comedic roles C) Male lead roles D) Villainous roles
A) 15 B) 26 C) 20 D) 30
A) 1609 B) 1592 C) 1616 D) 1588
A) 1612 B) 1598 C) 1597 D) 1609
A) Edmond Malone B) Thomas Heywood C) Francis Meres D) William Jaggard
A) Palladis Tamia B) Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare Gent C) Shakespeare's Sonnets D) The Passionate Pilgrime
A) John Benson B) Edmond Malone C) Shakespeare D) Francis Meres
A) With great respect B) Admiringly C) Scornfully D) Indifferently
A) Cultural context. B) Literary ambition. C) Linguistic structure. D) Biographical aspects.
A) Biographical criticism. B) New Criticism. C) Cultural criticism. D) Historical criticism.
A) Focusing only on concrete meanings. B) Dealing with perplexity on their own. C) Ignoring abstract meanings. D) Having experts simplify double meanings.
A) Relatively low. B) Unknown. C) Widely celebrated. D) Highly esteemed.
A) William Shakespeare. B) Sir Philip Sidney. C) John Milton. D) Edmund Spenser.
A) Many times. B) Never. C) Only once. D) Twice.
A) King of Navarre B) Lord Longaville C) Lord Berowne D) Dumaine
A) Four B) One C) Three D) Two
A) Much Ado About Nothing B) Love's Labour's Lost C) Romeo and Juliet D) Henry V
A) 1601 B) 1596 C) 1612 D) 1588
A) "budding of this purple bud" B) "scarlet ornaments" C) "that time of year thou mayst in me behold" D) "my love is as a fever longing still" |