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?
Shakespearean

Elizabethan

Petrarchan

Jacobean
2 What is the rhyme scheme of the octave?
ABABCDCD

ABABABAB

ABBAABBA

ABBACDDC
3 Where is the volta, or turn, in the sonnet?
Between lines 8 and 9

Between lines 5 and 6

Between lines 10 and 11

Between lines 13 and 14
4 How does the speaker portray her antagonists?
As redemptive

As foolish

As heroic

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

Philoclea

Pamphilia

Parthenia
6 Lady Mary Wroth wrote Urania under the reign of which monarch?
Elizabeth I

Charles I

Charles II

James I
7 Which term carries a theological connotation?
Esteem

Fools

Sighs

Redeem
8 Which might be considered Petrarchan poets?
Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare

Mary Sidney, Lucy Hutchinson

John Donne, Ben Jonson

Andrew Marvell, George Herbert
9 What year was Urania published?
1616

1621

1598

1605
10 Lady Mary Wroth subscribed to which religion?
Catholicism

Jesuitism

Judaism

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

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

"yet so slight conquest doth not him beseem"

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

good vs. evil

truth vs. performance

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

16

12

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

her uncle

her nephew

her first cousin
15 Which poet is known for conflating the erotic and the spiritual?
Lucy Hutchinson

John Donne

William Shakespeare

Margaret Cavendish
16 Protestants often portrayed Catholics in which way during the early modern period?
As showy

As obsolete

As heroic

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

Henry VIII

Elizabeth I

Charles I
18 Which is a trope of Petrarchan love poetry?
"in the soul true love in safety lies"

"redeem love lost"

"kind looks do many blessings hide"

"sighs and tears"
19 What is the meaning of the word "gloze" in the poem?
eat, ingest

annotate, edit

win, achieve

deceive, flatter
20 What is the rhyme scheme of the sestet?
CECECE

ACDACD

CCDEED

ABBAAB
21 Which is an example of spondaic substitution?
"still hies"

"outward shows"

"feigned love"

"do deem"
22 What does the word "esteem" mean in the poem?
knowledge

job

value

position
23 Francesco Petrarca was from which country?
England

France

Italy

Spain
24 Which is an example of hyperbole?
"alas, they are not such that can redeem"

"which blasts of feigned love / increase, or die"

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

"it is not love which you poor fools do deem"
25 The contrast between which two elements provides the major irony of the poem?
form and content

publication date and composition date

rhyme and meter

poetry and science

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