John Donne: Poems Quizzes

John Donne: Poems Quiz 1

By Todd Gordon · Edited by Adam Kissel · Last reviewed June 10, 2012

1 In "Lovers' Infiniteness," what does the speaker demand?

That he be heard

That God listen to his prayer

All of his lady's love

A song
2 In "Lovers' Infiniteness," what does "infiniteness" most likely refer to?

The universe

The lover's heart

The infiniteness of the speaker's love

The infiniteness of God's love
3 As he wrote "Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward," where was Donne actually going?

Ireland

Wales

London

Scotland
4 What happened on the first "Good Friday"?

The sun first rose

Jesus was crucified

God made the world

Jesus rose from the dead
5 In "Good Friday," what form does a "man's soul" take?

A light

A cross

A rod

A sphere
6 "For whom the bell tolls" is from which Donne work?

A sonnet

A prayer

A meditation

A sermon
7 What author named a book after a line from Donne?

Soren Kierkegaard

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Ernest Hemingway

Theodore Dreiser
8 Into what religion was John Donne born?

Protestantism

Lutheranism

The Church of England

Roman Catholicism
9 John Donne held what office at St. Paul's?

Rector

Priest

Vicar

Dean
10 What sovereign elevated Donne to his deanship?

Charles I

James I

Henry VIII

Elizabeth I
11 What illness did Donne suffer from before writing the Meditations?

Influenza

Spotted fever

Bubonic plague

Pneumonia
12 What is the significance of going west in "Good Friday"?

The setting sun reminds him of nature's wonders

The poet is eager to reach Wales

The poet is worried about leaving England

The poet is riding west but concerned with the East
13 In what year did Donne probably write "The Litanie"?

1613

1600

1650

1622
14 "The Litanie" follows what pattern?

The Beatitudes

The Hail Mary

A prayer of the Anglican church service

The Stations of the Cross
15 To what profession did Donne belong?

Medicine

The clergy

Academia

The law
16 What is the meaning of the word "Litanie" (litany)?

An act of penance

A category of sin

A pattern of prayers

A beach
17 What was the occupation of Donne's father?

A chancellor

An ironmonger

A priest

A lawyer
18 Donne was born in what city?

Paris

London

Oxford

Cambridge
19 In "The Sunne Rising," the poet calls the sun what?

A busy old fool

A crazy old man

A silly old woman

A celestial orb
20 Where did Donne die?

Oxford

London

Pembroke

Cambridge
21 What was Donne's wife's first name?

Margaret

Anne

Mary

Elizabeth
22 To what part of Christianity did Donne convert?

Methodism

Anglicanism

Presbyterianism

Roman Catholicism
23 Where did Donne fight as a soldier?

Paris, France

Cadiz, Spain

Glasgow, Scotland

Gettysburg, United States
24 "Death be not proud" is part of what group of poems?

The Songs

The Epithalamions

The Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

The Holy Sonnets
25 From the family of which saint was Donne's mother descended?

Thomas More

Augustine

Thomas Aquinas

Bridget

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