Sonnets Test

Question 1

Name that author: Had a pet pig

Answer 1

Robert Herrick

Question 2

Name that author: Wrote “The Faerie Queene”

Answer 2

Edmund Spenser

Question 3

Name that author: His sonnets are written on the dominant theme of love

Answer 3

William Shakespeare

Question 4

Name that author: Became active in politics

Answer 4

Andrew Marvell

Question 5

Name that author: Wrote 154 Sonnets

Answer 5

William Shakespeare

Question 6

Name that author: Wrote “To the Virgins”

Answer 6

Robert Herrick

Question 7

Name that author: Worked as a tutor before assisting John Milton

Answer 7

Andrew Marvell

Question 8

Name that author: Spent most of his time in Ireland

Answer 8

Edmund Spenser

Question 9

Name that author: Became a priest

Answer 9

Robert Herrick

Question 10

Name that author: Wrote “ To His Coy Mistress”

Answer 10

Andrew Marvell

Question 11

What are the two main types of sonnets?

Answer 11

Petrarchan (Italian) and Shakespearean (English)

Question 12

How many lines do sonnets contain?

Answer 12

14

Question 13

What meter are sonnets written in?

Answer 13

Iambic Pentameter

Question 14

A sonnet is divided into three what? And one what?

Answer 14

quatrains; couplet

Question 15

A group of four lines that rhyme ABAB is a what?

Answer 15

Quatrain

Question 16

Sonnets which follow one another are called what?

Answer 16

Sequence

Question 17

The Faerie Queene is an allegory. Name two of the characters from this work and what they represent.

Answer 17

Una (truth), Duessa (falsehood), Sansloy (lawlessness), Abessa (superstition), Corceca (Ignorance), The Red Cross Knight (Mankind)

Question 18

What are the two major characters in the Shakespearean Sonnets?

Answer 18

1. a beloved young man & friend (usually spoken of fondly and praised)
2. a dark woman (often depicted as dark, malicious, and ordinary)

Question 19

Describe the three sections in “To His Coy Mistress”.

Answer 19

The first section is a list of all the things he would do to praise her if there were enough time in the world.
The second section is a shift from timelessness to the limits of time and all that will be lost
The final section is seen as a plea to the young woman to take control of the time that they have

Question 20

What are three ways that “To His Coy Mistress” and “To the Virgins” are similar?

Answer 20

1. Both poems are carpe diem poems
2. Both poems talk about the passage and limits of time
3. Both are addressed to virgins and encourage lovers to use the time they have both encourage lovers to use the time they have (have sex while you’re young)

Question 21

What Movement does this writer belong to? Christopher Marlowe

Answer 21

Elizabethan Era

Question 22

What Movement does this writer belong to? Edmund Spenser

Answer 22

Elizabethan Era

Question 23

What Movement does this writer belong to? Sir Walter Raleigh

Answer 23

Elizabethan Era

Question 24

What Movement does this writer belong to? King James Bible produced

Answer 24

Jacobean (published in 1611)

Question 25

What Movement does this writer belong to? Francis Bacon

Answer 25

Jacobean

Question 26

What Movement does this writer belong to? Robert Herrick

Answer 26

Cavalier Poet, Caroline Age

Question 27

What Movement does this writer belong to? John Suckling

Answer 27

Cavalier Poet, Caroline Age

Question 28

What Movement does this writer belong to? John Milton

Answer 28

Commonwealth (Puritan Interregnum)

Question 29

What Movement does this writer belong to? Andrew Marvell

Answer 29

Commonwealth (Puritan Interregnum)

Question 30

What Movement does this writer belong to? Thomas Hobbes

Answer 30

Commonwealth (Puritan Interregnum)

Question 31

Rhyme Scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 31

ABABCDCDEFEFGG