L&#39;Allegro Quizzes

L'Allegro Quiz

1 Who does the speaker choose as his guide in "L'Allegro"?

Sport

Jollity

Jest

Liberty
2 Who does the speaker reject at the beginning of "L'Allegro"?

Contemplation

Care

Melancholy

Wrath
3 Who is Orpheus?

A shepherd from Greek mythology who tried to lead his wife out of the underworld

One of the peasants the speaker sees in the fields

The goddess who guides "Il Penseroso"

The Greek name for Mirth
4 What does the speaker argue in "L'Allegro"?

The best life is the life full of fame

The best life is the life full of contemplation

The best life is the life full of joy

The best life is the life full of wealth
5 When did Milton write "L'Allegro"?

At the end of his career

In the middle of his political career

As a small child

While studying at Cambridge
6 Which playwright does Milton reference in "L'Allegro"?

Christopher Marlowe

Geoffrey Chaucer

Edmund Spencer

William Shakespeare
7 Does the speaker in "L'Allegro" win the debate?

It's unclear

There is no debate

No

Yes
8 How does "L'Allegro" end?

With the speaker going back to work

With the speaker meeting his rival

With the speaker enjoying the theater

With the speaker joining the peasants
9 Which later work was directly influenced by the speaker in "L'Allegro"?

Comus

Areopagitica

On Shakespeare

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
10 How does the hunt in "L'Allegro" end?

A person dies

We don't know

The deer escapes

The deer dies
11 Who is Faery Mab?

A friend of Melancholy

A friend of Mirth

The speaker's guide

A fairy queen known for mischief
12 During the Renaissance, people associated Melancholy with ____

A life of joy

Business

Festivals

An artistic temperment
13 What is the name of the companion poem to "L'Allegro"?

Il Penseroso

La Pendient

Il Penegro

Il Pendero
14 What does the speaker argue for in "Il Penseroso"?

A life of contemplation

A life of joy

A life of amusement

A life of trade and industry
15 How does "L'Allegro" begin?

With the speaker watching shepherds in the fields

With the speaker choosing Mirth as his guide

With the speaker going to the theater

With the speaker rejecting Melancholy
16 Which character from Greek mythology does the speaker allude to in "L'Allegro"?

Orpheus

Zeus

Persephone

Hecuba
17 Which genre does Milton draw from in "L'Allegro"?

History play

Free verse

Epic poetry

Classical hymn
18 The shepherds that appear in "L'Allegro" draw from which tradition?

Sonnet

Free verse

Classical hymn

Pastoral poetry
19 The speaker aligns Melancholy with ___.

The darkness of a gambling hall

The darkness of a tower

The darkness of the underworld

The darkness of a forest
20 Who does the speaker say gave birth to Melancholy?

Cerberus

Zephyr

Aurora

Zeus
21 Which bird sings in "L'Allegro"?

Robbin

Lark

Dove

Sparrow
22 Which image appears in "L'Allegro"?

School

Church

Tower

Gambling Hall
23 How many lines is the prelude to "L'Allegro"?

5

20

6

10
24 Which form does Milton draw from in the rhyme scheme of the prelude?

Lyric

Canzone

Sonnet

Ottava Rima
25 The majority of "L'Allegro" is written in ___.

Ottava Rima

Couplets

Sonnet

Lyric

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