Sonnet 18

1- Shakespeare wrote…………….sonnets
a) 164
b) 136
c) 154
d) 174
2- The poem is a …………. .
a) A sonnet
b) An ode
c) An elegy
d) A ballad
3- What form of sonnets is this poem?
a) Spenserian sonnet
b) Shakespearean sonnet
c) Elizabethan
d) Petrarchan
4- The poem is
a) A nature poem
b) A philosophical poem
c) A love poem
d) An elegiac poem
5- The poem contains
a) 2 quatrains and a couplet
b) 3 couplets and a quatrain
c) No couplets and three quatrains
d) 3 quatrains and a couplet
6- Who is the poem addressed to?
a) A young beloved
b) The speaker's mother Queen
c) Elizabeth
d) The speaker's sister
7- According to the poem, the beloved's beauty is ………
a) Transient
b) Ephemeral
c) Perpetual
d) Temporary
8- What is the main simile in the poem?
a) Clouds
b) Eternal summer
c) Flowers
d) Summer's day
9- The word temperate means ………… .
a) Temporary
b) WarmFriendly
c) Moderate
10- Rough winds in summer's days destroy …….…. .
a) Fruits
b) Trees
c) Buds ( little leaves )
d) Flowers
11- The beloved's beauty surpasses the beauty of ………… .
a) Winter
b) Summer
c) Fall
d) Spring
12- The speaker compares his beloved to ….…….. .
a) A summer's day
b) A winter's day
c) A spring's day
d) A sunny day
13- The buds are shaken by the rough winds in ………… .
a) Winter
b) Spring
c) Summer
d) Fall
14- The goldern complexion of the sun can be dimmed by ………….. .
a) A big tree
b) A high mountain
c) A huge house
d) Clouds
15- The speaker points out that beauty ………… .
a) Is Subject to change ( Beauty in general )
b) Is Not subject to changecan diminish a little
c) Is the opposite of unfair
16- summer's winds can be ………… .
a) always hot
b) always humid
c) rough
d) always rainy
17- How many lines are in a sonnet ?
a) 10
b) 12
c) 14
d) 16
18- How many lines are in a quatrain ?
a) 12
b) 3
c) 4
19- How many lines are in a couplet?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
20- What is the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?
a) free verse
b) 3 quatrains followed by 1 couplet
c) 2 couplets followed by 2 quatrains
d) 4 couplets followed by 1 quatrain
21- What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
a) AAAA BBBB CCCC DD
b) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
c) ABCD EFGH ABCD EF
22- Who is the speaker most likely addressing in this poem?
a) his beloved
b) his parents
c) his childhood friend
d) an acquaintance
23- How does the speaker of this poem believe the beauty of nature compared to the
beauty of the person he's addressing?
a) The poem's subject is nowhere near as beautiful as things found in nature.
b) The sun is more beautiful and bright than the poem's subject.
c) Seasons change and natural beauty eventually fades. However, the beauty of the poem's
subject will never fade.
d) The poem's subject is as beautiful as natural objects, but her beauty will fade just as
natural beauty fades.
24- The last two lines limit the promise to "So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
/ So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." What does the "this" refer to?
a) the summer sun
b) the words of this poem
c) the changing seasons
d) the love of the speaker
25- What is a possible theme of Sonnet 18?
a) love and beauty
b) war and politics
c) weapons and violence
d) school and homework
26- "Nor shall Death brag..." is an example of
a) personification
b) metaphor
c) repetition.

Sonnet 29

1- Sonnet 29 can be best described as ……….. .

a) metaphorical fist being shaken at fate
b) request for friendship or favor most unflattering portrait
c) statement of how happy memories change despair to contentment
2- Sonnet 29 effectively uses or implies a number of contrasts, including all of the
following except ………… .
a) happiness and dicontent
b) poverty and riches
c) melancholy and great happiness
d) spiritual love and earthly love
3- What is the significance of the image of the lark (lines 11-12) to the meaning of
Sonnet 29?
a) The lark symbolizes immortality.
b) The lark represents the effect that remembering the friend as on the speaker's spirits.
c) The lark is contrasted to the wealth derived from remembering the friend's "sweet love."
d) The lark represents a state inferior to that of kings.
4- What is the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 ("when in disgrace with fortune and
men's eyes")?
a) Even when life is horrible, love can make it bearable.
b) Love bears all things and endures all things.
c) Sometimes when you love, you lose.
d) Being envious of others' lives can lead you down the wrong path.
5- What is a volta?
a) Four lines from a sonnet
b) Emotional twist and final argument The tone of the poem
c) The main message of the poem
6- When were The Sonnets first published?
a) 1609
b) 1592
c) 1594
d) 2013
7- What does the speaker compare his good mood to at the end of the sonnet?
a) sunshine
b) a lark
c) a prayer
d) money
8- Who is the speaker addressing in this sonnet?
a) God
b) Mistress
c) the guy who fired him his priest
9- What does the speaker mean when he says he "trouble[s] deaf heav'n with [his]
bootless cries"(3)?
a) he can't find his shoes and wants God's help
b) God doesn't answer his prayers
c) he doesn't have friends
d) he's broke
10- This sonnet is an example of what kind of poetry?
a) lyric
b) dramatic
c) epic
d) none of the above

Questions with short answers:

1- How many lines are there in the Sonnet?
14 lines
2- What is the theme in the sonnet?
Love
3- Is the main character a man or a woman?
Man
4- Where does the person seek help?
God (heaven)
5- Why does he turn to God to seek help?
Because he feels sorry for himself - he is not good enough to be loved. He is hoping that God
can give him guidance
6- "That then I scorn to change my state with kings" - What does this mean?
That when he is with his love, he won't change anything
7- What kind of sonnet is it?
A Shakespearean sonnet
8- What is the rhyme scheeme?
Abab, cdcd, efef, gg
9- What's the function of the first quartrain?
Should establish the subject of the sonnet.
10- What kind of narrative technique is used?
person(I)
 Speech: “All the world‟s a stage”

1- The poem 'All the World's a Stage' was written by……

a) Matthew Arnold
b) Ben Jonson
c) William Shakespeare
d) Christopher Marlowe
2- The poem 'All the World's a Stage' was taken from the play……
a) As You Like It
b) Much Ado About Nothing
c) A Midsummer's Night's Dream
3- Macbeth The speaker in the poem 'All the World's a Stage' is……
a) Lady Macbeth
b) Claudius
c) Gertrude
d) Jacques
4- In the poem 'All the World's a Stage', the world is compared to a……
a) House
b) Stage
c) Garden
d) Prison
5- In the poem 'All the World's a Stage', men and women are drawn as……
a) Knights
b) Actors
c) Animals
d) Stars
6- According to the poem, man passes through ………. in his life.
a) 7 stages
b) 9 stages
c) 5 stages
7- 4 stages In the poem 'All the World's a Stage', the writer uses two important kinds of
images which are……
a) Synecdoche and metonymy
b) Anaphora and epistrophe
c) Metaphor and simile
d) Pentameter and monometers
8- The tone in the poem 'All the World's a Stage' is ……….
a) Joyful
b) Merry
c) Happy
d) Depressing
9- William Shakespeare lived during the ………..Age.
a) Elizabethan
b) Neoclassical
c) Modern
d) Romantic
10- William Shakespeare is both the greatest English …..
a) merchant and courtier
b) musician and novelist
c) dramatist and poet
d) soldier and farmer
11- In the poem 'All the World's a Stage', man is presented as a(n)…….at the first stage.
a) Engineer
b) Infant
c) Young man
d) Soldier
12- In the poem 'All the World's a Stage', man is presented as a(n)…….at the second
stage.
a) Schoolboy
b) Schoolmaster
c) Headmaster
d) Ruler
13- In the poem 'All the World's a Stage', man is presented as a(n)…….at the third
stage.
a) Soldier
b) Courtier
c) Merchant
d) Lover
14- 'creeping like snail' is an example of a………..
a) Simile
b) Metonymy
c) Symbol
d) Metaphor
15- 'All the World's a Stage' is an example of a………..
a) Simile
b) Metonymy
c) Symbol
d) Metaphor
16- 'quick in quarrel' is an example of a………..
a) Alliteration
b) Metonymy
c) Symbol
d) Metaphor

Virtue

1. What year was George Herbert born?

a. 1599
b. 1601
c. 1593
d. 1579
2. What was the name Herbert's collection of poems?
The Temple
3. What did George Herbert tell Nicholas Ferrar on his death bed?
Publish his poetry
4. What languages were Herbert's poems in?
English, Greek and Latin
Multiple-choice
5. Who was John Donne to George Herbert ?
a. Cousin
b. Friend
c. Godson
d. Godfather
6. To date, Herbert's poetry is used as?
Hymns
7. Herbert's famous book had gone through how many editions by 1690?
"The Temple" had gone through several editions by 1690, but the exact number is uncertain.
8. Which pair of words represents the poem's primary conflict?
a) Virtue and the passage of time
b) Spring and carpe diem
c) Sweet personalities and angry personalities
d) Roses and days
e) All of the above
9. The first three stanzas parallel each other in all of the following ways except:
a) 1. each starts with the word "sweet."
b) 2. each ends with the same word.
c) 3. each shares a common idea.
d) 4. the day of the first stanza is metaphorically continued in the next two stanzas.
e) 5. each advocates for an alternative to death.
10. Stanzas one, two, and three each contain which of the following devices?
a) 1. Anthropomorphism
b) 2. Apostrophe
c) 3. Free verse
d) 4. Synecdoche
e) 5. Simile
11. Which of the following phrases is not used by the speaker as an example of
something that must die?
a) 1. "Sweet day" (line 1)
b) 2. "Sweet rose" (line 5)
c) 3. "Thy root" (line 7)
d) 4. "Sweet spring" (line 9)
e) 5. "a sweet and virtuous soul" ( line 13)
12. The simile in the fourth stanza does all of the following except:
a) compare a virtuous soul to seasoned timber.
b) compare the strength of virtue to the strength of wood.
c) suggest virtue, like seasoned wood, will not rot.
d) suggest virtue does not give way to sin.
e) suggest virtue can turn the world to coal.
13. Which of the following statements is not an accurate analysis of the figurative
language in the second and third stanzas?
a) 1. In stanza two, the metaphor could be considered a metaphysical conceit.
b) 2. In stanza two, the crimson rose is described as angry.
c) 3. In stanza two the face of the angry man is so pale, observers cry.
d) 4. In stanza three, the spring is compared to a box of sweets.
e) 5. In stanza three, "music" may be read literally and metaphorically.
14. Lines 4, 8, and 12 share which metrical pattern?
a) 1. Iambic trimeter
b) 2. Iambic tetrameter
c) 3. Iambic dimeter
d) 4. Trochaic tetrameter
e) 5. Spondaic dimeter
15. Lines 3, 10, and 14 share which metrical pattern?
a) Iambic trimeter
b) Iambic tetrameter
c) Iambic dimeter
d) Trochaic tetrameter
e) Spondaic dimeter
16. The apostrophe and anaphora in lines 4 and 8 have the effect of:
I. emphasizing mortality.
II. lightening the tone.
III. broadening the poem's theme.

a) I only
b) II only
c) I and II only
d) I and III only
e) I, II, and III
17. The tone of this poem is best characterized as:
a) Sacrilegious
b) Humorous
c) Reverent
d) Ambiguous
e) Practical

Question 1: Choose the correct option:

1. What message does the poet want to give through this poem?
a. A day is the bridal of the earth and sky.
b. A soul is the only thing that will never die.
c. Both a and b are true.
2. What does the word „earth‟ indicate this poem?
a. the human beings living on the earth.
b. the mortal human world.
c. The sky that is connected to the earth.
3. By using the phrase „all must die‟ the poet emphasizes on
a. the power of death.
b. the virtues all human beings have.
c. the power of the immortal soul.
4. The poet describes the day as something
a. calm
b. cool
c. both of these
5. What is immortal in this world?
a. virtuous soul
b. sweet rose
c. sweet day
6. The poet compares the virtuous soul to
a. seasoned timber
b. sweet spring
c. sweet day

Question 2: Complete the lines:

1. Sweet day so cool, so calm, so bright.
2. The bridal of the earth and sky.
3. Thy root is ever in its grave.
4. And thou must die.

Question 3: What does the poet mean by the opening lines „Sweet day……sky,‟?
Answer: The poet speaks about the short-lived nature of a delightfully bright and
refreshingly cool and calm day. Its brightness suggests that it is in delightful mood. Marriage
is a happy occasion when people appear in their best dress and there is a spirit of joy all
around. In bright day light, the earth and the sky seem at the horizon.
Question 4: What will live forever? Why does the poet think so?
Answer: The virtuous soul will live forever. The poet thinks that transitory „sweets‟ on
earth will decay as part of the natural order of thing.
Question 5: Where are the roots of the sweet rose?
Answer: Unlike men who are buried in the grave after death, the roots of the rose are buried
in the grave ever since its birth.
Question 6: Do you agree with the thought the poet presents in the last two lines?
Express your views.
Answer: Yes, the poet is true to his point because though the world may burn and rot and
turn to coal yet, a seasoned timber outlives the process of death. Virtue similarly is not
perishable though the world may be destroyed by the force of decay.

Alas

1. The poem was written by…………

a. William Shakespeare
b. Earl of Surrey
c. Philip Sidney
2. The poem was written during the …………century.
a. 16th
b. 18th
c. 13th
3. In the poem, the speaker shows the contrast between peace in nature…..
a. peace after death
b. turmoil within himself
c. anguish during dreams
4. The poem is a(n) ………….
a. epic
b. tragedy
c. sonnet
5. A sonnet is a short poem of……………lines.
a. 14
b. 15
c. 16
6. The poem has ………stanzas.
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
7. the first three stanzas are……..
a. quatrains
b. triplets
c. sestets
8. The last stanza is a…..
a. triplet
b. quatrain
c. couplet
9. A quatrain has………lines.
a. 4
b. 3
c. 6
10. A couplet has ………lines.
a. 3
b. 4
c. 2
11. In the quatrains the writer gives a …….
a. discussion
b. question
c. comment
12. In the couplet the writer gives a …….
a. discussion
b. question
c. comment
13. The rhyme scheme is……..
a. abab
b. abcb
c. abba
14. the lines are………
a. trimeters
b. tetrameters
c. pentameters
15. The words 'sing' and 'weep' are a good example of what is called…..
a. refrain
b. metaphor
c. oxymoron

Come Sleep, O Sleep

1. What does the speaker say about his head?

a. It's weary
b. It's hairy
c. It's balding
d. It's green
2. What is Despair throwing at the speaker?
a. Missiles
b. Arrows
c. Darts
3. What's going on inside the speaker?
a. A major study session
b. A party
c. A snooze fest
d. Civil wars
4. Who does the speaker ask for help with his despair?
a. Sleep
b. Stella
c. Despair
d. Sir Philip Sidney
5. What adjective does the speaker use to describe Despair's darts?
a. Livelier
b. Weary
c. Rosy
d.Fierce
6. Who does the speaker want to come?
a) Stella
b) Sleep
c) Despair
d) George Washington
7. What is this mysterious visitor's relationship to peace?
a. Knot
b. Dart
c. Civil war
d. Balm
8. What is his relationship to woe?
a. Sword
b. Knot
c. Balm
d. Breath
9. What does the speaker say about sleep and wit?
a. Sleep brings it breakfast in bed
b. Sleep acts as a baiting place for it Sleep throws darts at it
c. Sleep screams at it
10. What word does the speaker use to describe Sleep's grace?
a. Heavy
b. Slow
c. Dumb
d. Massive

11. Who is the author of sonnet 39?

Philip Sidney
12. What is the baiting place?
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe.
13. What does the speaker compare sleep to?
The speaker compares sleep to balm of woe
14. What do the metaphors in the first 4 lines reveal about the speaker's attitude
toward sleep?
The writer thinks that sleep is very necessary in man’s life
Or
Sleep is one of the basics of life
15. What is personified in this sonnet? How?
Sleep - he compares sleep to someone listening to him
16. What is the image in "O Sleep'.?
Apostrophe
17. What is the figure of speech in ' The poor mans wealth, the prisoner‟s release,'?
Metaphor

And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus

1. The poem 'Wilt Thou Leave me Thus' was written by……..

a. Thomas Wyatt
b. Earl of Surrey
c. Philip Sidney
2. The name of Thomas Wyatt has been often connected with that of……….in the books of
English literature.
a. William Shakespeare
b. Earl of Surrey
c. Philip Sidney

3. The poem 'Wilt Thou Leave me Thus' includes……….stanzas.

a. 6
b. 5
c. 4
4. The poem 'Wilt Thou Leave me Thus' was partially written in….
a. Pentameters
b. hexameters
c. tatrameters
5. Some of the lines in The poem 'Wilt Thou Leave me Thus' are…
a. Pentameters
b. hexameters
c. trimeters
6. A tetrameter has………..feet.
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6
7. A trimester has…………feet.
a. 4
b. 3
c. 5
8. The rhyme scheme in The poem 'Wilt Thou Leave me Thus' is ……
a. Ababa
b. abbbac
c. abcab
9. Every stanza has ….lines.
a. 6
c. 7
d. 8
10. Every stanza is a…….
a. Cinquain
b. quatrain
c. sestet
11. The repetition of the last line in every stanza is called a(n)………..
a. Epistrophe
b. refrain
c. triplet
12. The speaker is a……….
a. Hunter
b. schoolboy
c. lover
13. The speaker is addressing his………
a. Beloved
b. sister
c. mother
14. The words 'thy heart' are a good example of what is called……..
a. Simile
b. synecdoche
c. metonymy
15. The words 'wealth and woe' are a good example of what is called…
a. Oxymoron
b. metaphor
c. refrain