1 Which of the following images does the speaker NOT compare to "the bed we loved in"? Torchlight Cliff-tops Castles Lagoons 2 Who sleeps in the best bed? Guests Nobody Shakespeare's other lover Shakespeare 3 Which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her body to? Assonance Iambic pentameter An echo A rhyme 4 What does the speaker's husband do in the metaphorical seas? Drown Harpoon a trout Dive for pearls Set a net for mussels 5 What does the speaker compare her husband's kisses to? Pearls from an oyster Shooting stars Hidden diamonds Faraway galaxies 6 This poem references... letters from Shakespeare to a different lover letters from Anne Hathaway to a different lover Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare's will 7 To what does the speaker compare her head? A bird's nest A tomb A hammock A casket 8 What does the speaker dream? That her husband had written her That her husband has written a play about her That she is back with her husband again That her husband was still alive 9 What does the speaker refer to as "a spinning world?" The forest The second-best bed The first-best bed The sea 10 To what does the speaker compare how she holds her husband in the "casket" of her head? How he held a different lover when he was unfaithful How she idolized him in life How he held her in bed How he held poetry in his mind 11 What or who plays "romance and drama" in this poem? Touch, scent, and taste Shakespeare's poems The couples' houseguests Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare 12 Where is this poem's epigraph from? Shakespeare's will Shakespeare's play Antony & Cleopatra Anne Hathaway's letters Shakespeare's letters 13 Fill in the blanks: "a ____ dancing in the centre of a ____." noun; verb noun; adverb verb; noun adjective; noun 14 Whom does the speaker refer to as "living laughing?" Her children Herself Shakespeare Their guests when awake 15 What form does this poem somewhat follow? A villanelle A Shakespearean sonnet A sestina A Petrarchan sonnet 16 Which of the following is true? This poem strictly follows iambic pentameter This poem follows a strict rhyme scheme This poem does not follow a strict rhyme scheme This poem uses onomatopoeia heavily 17 Fill in the blanks: "Some nights I dreamed he’d written me, the ____/ a ____ beneath his writer’s hands." bed; page bed; play will; story love; book 18 This poem is in third person. False True 19 Which of the following is true? This poem means to strip Shakespeare of his significance and remind the readers of his flaws. This poem means to fictionalize Shakespeare's life. This poem means to show the female perspective of a well-known historical moment that is usually interpreted from the male perspective. This poem means to revitalize the speaker's memory of Shakespeare. 20 Where does most of this poem seem to take place? In the streets of London At the bottom of the ocean On a cliff-top Shakespeare and Hathaway's home 21 Fill in the blank: "The bed we loved in was a spinning ____" forest orb poem world 22 When is this poem being told? After Hathaway's death After Shakespeare's father's death On the night of Shakespeare and Hathaway's wedding After Shakespeare's death 23 Fill in the blank: "In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on, dribbling their ____." drool poetry dreams prose 24 The speaker never names Shakespeare in the poem, instead referring to him as her lover. False True 25 The title character of this poem is the object of this speaker's desire. False True