The Brownings

Question 0

“Sonnets from the Portuguese” missing words:

Answer 0

“Cuckoo-song”

Question 1

“Sonnets may address a range of issues or themes, but _____, the original subject of the sonnet, is perhaps still the most prevalent.”

Answer 1

Love

Question 2

Who was the sculptor of Neptune in “My Last Duchess”?

Answer 2

Claus of Innsbruck

Question 3

The monks want Lippo to paint the ____, not the bodies

Answer 3

Souls

Question 4

R. Browning is said to write in the tradition of:

Answer 4

John Donne

Question 5

Where is the Duke and his companion?

Answer 5

On the grand staircase

Question 6

What is a “shroud”?

Answer 6

A cover or shelter

Question 7

“Ask ________ why they weep, and not the children,

For the outside earth is cold…”

Answer 7

The aged

Question 8

God’s reaction:

Answer 8

God can’t hear them because of the noise

Question 9

R. Browning went to ____________________ in 1828

Answer 9

University of London

Question 10

The children only know two words of praying:

Answer 10

Our father

Question 11

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height” an allusion:

Answer 11

Christian allusion

Question 12

“Porphyria’s Lover” is set:

Answer 12

Just after her death

Question 13

Sonnetto means:

Answer 13

“Little song”

Question 14

Hyperbole means:

Answer 14

Overstatement, incredible exaggeration

Question 15

“How do I love thee?” What comes next?

Answer 15

Let me count the ways

Question 16

R. Browning’s first play, Strafford, was a:

Answer 16

Flop

Question 17

The painter Fra Lippo Lippi escaped by:

Answer 17

Tying together bedclothes and curtains