It is not love which you poor fools do deem (Sonnet 40) Quizzes

It is not love which you poor fools do deem (Sonnet 40) Quiz

1 What kind of sonnet is the poem?
Jacobean

Elizabethan

Shakespearean

Petrarchan
2 What is the rhyme scheme of the octave?
ABBACDDC

ABBAABBA

ABABABAB

ABABCDCD
3 Where is the volta, or turn, in the sonnet?
Between lines 10 and 11

Between lines 8 and 9

Between lines 13 and 14

Between lines 5 and 6
4 How does the speaker portray her antagonists?
As redemptive

As heroic

As foolish

As innovative
5 Who is the speaker of the poem?
Pamela

Parthenia

Philoclea

Pamphilia
6 Lady Mary Wroth wrote Urania under the reign of which monarch?
James I

Charles II

Charles I

Elizabeth I
7 Which term carries a theological connotation?
Esteem

Fools

Redeem

Sighs
8 Which might be considered Petrarchan poets?
Andrew Marvell, George Herbert

John Donne, Ben Jonson

Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare

Mary Sidney, Lucy Hutchinson
9 What year was Urania published?
1621

1616

1605

1598
10 Lady Mary Wroth subscribed to which religion?
Protestantism

Jesuitism

Catholicism

Judaism
11 Which is an example of personification?
"true love in safety lies"

"yet so slight conquest doth not him beseem"

"it is not love which you poor fools do deem"

"and yet kind looks do many blessings hide"
12 What is the primary tension in the poem?
good vs. evil

truth vs. performance

England vs. Spain

male vs. female
13 How many lines make up a sonnet?
18

16

14

12
14 Lady Mary Wroth was likely in love with whom?
her aunt

her first cousin

her nephew

her uncle
15 Which poet is known for conflating the erotic and the spiritual?
William Shakespeare

Margaret Cavendish

John Donne

Lucy Hutchinson
16 Protestants often portrayed Catholics in which way during the early modern period?
As heroic

As showy

As obsolete

As honest
17 Petrarchan poetry was most popular during which monarch's reign?
James I

Elizabeth I

Henry VIII

Charles I
18 Which is a trope of Petrarchan love poetry?
"sighs and tears"

"in the soul true love in safety lies"

"redeem love lost"

"kind looks do many blessings hide"
19 What is the meaning of the word "gloze" in the poem?
annotate, edit

eat, ingest

deceive, flatter

win, achieve
20 What is the rhyme scheme of the sestet?
CECECE

ABBAAB

CCDEED

ACDACD
21 Which is an example of spondaic substitution?
"do deem"

"still hies"

"outward shows"

"feigned love"
22 What does the word "esteem" mean in the poem?
knowledge

job

value

position
23 Francesco Petrarca was from which country?
England

France

Spain

Italy
24 Which is an example of hyperbole?
"it is not love which you poor fools do deem"

"kissing, toying, or by swearing's gloze"

"alas, they are not such that can redeem"

"which blasts of feigned love / increase, or die"
25 The contrast between which two elements provides the major irony of the poem?
form and content

poetry and science

publication date and composition date

rhyme and meter

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