Anne Hathaway Quizzes

Anne Hathaway Quiz

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

Torchlight

Lagoons

Cliff-tops
2 Who sleeps in the best bed?
Shakespeare's other lover

Nobody

Shakespeare

Guests
3 Which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her body to?
An echo

Iambic pentameter

Assonance

A rhyme
4 What does the speaker's husband do in the metaphorical seas?
Harpoon a trout

Drown

Set a net for mussels

Dive for pearls
5 What does the speaker compare her husband's kisses to?
Pearls from an oyster

Hidden diamonds

Shooting stars

Faraway galaxies
6 This poem references...
letters from Shakespeare to a different lover

Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream

letters from Anne Hathaway to a different lover

Shakespeare's will
7 To what does the speaker compare her head?
A casket

A tomb

A bird's nest

A hammock
8 What does the speaker dream?
That her husband has written a play about her

That her husband was still alive

That she is back with her husband again

That her husband had written her
9 What does the speaker refer to as "a spinning world?"
The second-best bed

The first-best bed

The sea

The forest
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 he held poetry in his mind

How he held her in bed

How she idolized him in life
11 What or who plays "romance and drama" in this poem?
The couples' houseguests

Touch, scent, and taste

Shakespeare's poems

Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare
12 Where is this poem's epigraph from?
Anne Hathaway's letters

Shakespeare's play Antony & Cleopatra

Shakespeare's letters

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

adjective; noun

verb; noun

noun; adverb
14 Whom does the speaker refer to as "living laughing?"
Their guests when awake

Shakespeare

Her children

Herself
15 What form does this poem somewhat follow?
A villanelle

A sestina

A Petrarchan sonnet

A Shakespearean sonnet
16 Which of the following is true?
This poem does not follow a strict rhyme scheme

This poem uses onomatopoeia heavily

This poem follows a strict rhyme scheme

This poem strictly follows iambic pentameter
17 Fill in the blanks: "Some nights I dreamed he’d written me, the ____/ a ____ beneath his writer’s hands."
bed; page

will; story

love; book

bed; play
18 This poem is in third person.
False

True
19 Which of the following is true?
This poem means to fictionalize Shakespeare's life.

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.
20 Where does most of this poem seem to take place?
At the bottom of the ocean

On a cliff-top

In the streets of London

Shakespeare and Hathaway's home
21 Fill in the blank: "The bed we loved in was a spinning ____"
forest

world

poem

orb
22 When is this poem being told?
On the night of Shakespeare and Hathaway's wedding

After Hathaway's death

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 ____."
dreams

drool

poetry

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

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