Anne Hathaway Quizzes

Anne Hathaway Quiz

1 Which of the following images does the speaker NOT compare to "the bed we loved in"?

Cliff-tops

Lagoons

Castles

Torchlight
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?

An echo

Iambic pentameter

A rhyme

Assonance
4 What does the speaker's husband do in the metaphorical seas?

Drown

Dive for pearls

Set a net for mussels

Harpoon a trout
5 What does the speaker compare her husband's kisses to?

Shooting stars

Faraway galaxies

Pearls from an oyster

Hidden diamonds
6 This poem references...

Shakespeare's will

Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream

letters from Shakespeare to a different lover

letters from Anne Hathaway to a different lover
7 To what does the speaker compare her head?

A bird's nest

A casket

A hammock

A tomb
8 What does the speaker dream?

That her husband has written a play about her

That her husband had written 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 second-best bed

The sea

The first-best bed

The forest
10 To what does the speaker compare how she holds her husband in the "casket" of her head?

How he held her in bed

How he held a different lover when he was unfaithful

How she idolized him in life

How he held poetry in his mind
11 What or who plays "romance and drama" in this poem?

Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare

Touch, scent, and taste

The couples' houseguests

Shakespeare's poems
12 Where is this poem's epigraph from?

Shakespeare's play Antony & Cleopatra

Shakespeare's letters

Anne Hathaway's letters

Shakespeare's will
13 Fill in the blanks: "a ____ dancing in the centre of a ____."

adjective; noun

noun; adverb

noun; verb

verb; noun
14 Whom does the speaker refer to as "living laughing?"

Herself

Their guests when awake

Shakespeare

Her children
15 What form does this poem somewhat follow?

A sestina

A Petrarchan sonnet

A villanelle

A Shakespearean sonnet
16 Which of the following is true?

This poem does not follow a strict rhyme scheme

This poem strictly follows iambic pentameter

This poem uses onomatopoeia heavily

This poem follows a strict rhyme scheme
17 Fill in the blanks: "Some nights I dreamed he’d written me, the ____/ a ____ beneath his writer’s hands."

love; book

bed; play

bed; page

will; story
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 revitalize the speaker's memory of Shakespeare.

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 fictionalize Shakespeare's life.
20 Where does most of this poem seem to take place?

At the bottom of the ocean

Shakespeare and Hathaway's home

In the streets of London

On a cliff-top
21 Fill in the blank: "The bed we loved in was a spinning ____"

orb

forest

world

poem
22 When is this poem being told?

After Hathaway's death

On the night of Shakespeare and Hathaway's wedding

After Shakespeare's father's death

After Shakespeare's death
23 Fill in the blank: "In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on, dribbling their ____."

prose

dreams

drool

poetry
24 The speaker never names Shakespeare in the poem, instead referring to him as her lover.

True

False
25 The title character of this poem is the object of this speaker's desire.

False

True

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