Andrew Marvell: Poems Quizzes

Andrew Marvell: Poems Quiz 1

By B.C. Parris · Edited by A. Boghani · Last reviewed January 03, 2014

1 What year was Andrew Marvell born?

1660

1590

1610

1629
2 What was Andrew Marvell’s father named?

Alexander Marvell

James Marvell

John Marvell

Andrew Marvell
3 What was Marvell’s father’s profession?

Artisan

Poet

Clergyman

Scholar
4 How old was Marvell when he entered Cambridge?

15

12

13

16
5 Which college did Marvell enter at Cambridge University?

Mary Magdalen

Christ's College

Trinity

St. John's
6 What religion did Marvell temporarily adopt while studying at Cambridge?

Arminianism

Islam

Judaism

Catholicism
7 Which city did Marvell serve as a member of Parliament’s House of Commons?

Hull

Manchester

London

Suffolk
8 Which English poet did Marvell publicly defend in print by contributing a poem praising his epic style?

Sir Phillip Sidney

Edmund Spenser

George Chapman

John Milton
9 What was the name of Marvell’s wife?

Anne

Elizabeth

Mary

Jane
10 What was the name of Marvell’s beloved nephew, whose manuscript is an important source for Marvell’s poetry?

Marcus Milton

Joseph Smith

William Popple

William Thwaites
11 Which school of English poetry is Marvell associated with?

Romantic

Elizabethan

Ovidian

Metaphysical
12 Which of the following poets is also part of the metaphysical school of poetry?

John Donne

Wiliiam Shakespeare

John Milton

John Dryden
13 Who was the Lord Protectorate of the Commonwealth and the guardian of Marvell’s tutee William Dutton?

William Laud

George Cromwell

William Davenant

Oliver Cromwell
14 What was Marvell’s political position?

Royalist

Whig

Republican

Constitutionalist
15 Which 20th century critic and poet is responsible for renewing interest in Marvell’s work?

T.S. Eliot

Northrop Frye

Cleanth Brooks

William Empson
16 Which Archdeacon of Canterbury did Marvell satirize in his controversial pamphlet?

Richard Hooker

Samuel Parker

John Bridges

William Laud
17 Which poetic device is Marvell best known for?

Bombast

Pathetic Fallacy

Elaborate Conceit

Stichomythia
18 What year did Andrew Marvell die?

1700

1642

1689

1678
19 When did the first folio edition of Marvell’s poetry appear?

1800

1681

1781

1695
20 In "The Garden," which color is the “thought” to which all is annihilated?

Black

Red

Green

White
21 Who was Marvell’s most important patron, and hired Marvell to tutor his daughter?

Lord Leicester

Lord Fairfax

Lord Herbert

Lord Smythe
22 Who begets the speaker’s love in “The Definition of Love?”

Hope

Resolve

Fancy

Despair
23 What kind of wedges does Fate drive between the lovers in “The Definition of Love?”

Gold

Copper

Iron

Ivory
24 In "The Definition of Love," which paradoxical term does Marvell use to describe the flattened Earth?

Starosphere

Rectosphere

Heliosphere

Planisphere
25 What entity cruelly “debars” the two lovers in “The Definition of Love?”

Rage

Death

Envy

Fate

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