Week 1 Introduction and Elizabethan Poetry

Quiz for Week 1

1、单选题:
‏Sonnet 75 starting with the line “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” was written by ________.   ‏
选项:
A: Shakespeare
B: Sidney
C: Donne
D: Edmund Spenser
答案: 【 Edmund Spenser

2、单选题:
‎There are 10 syllables in a line and they follow a regular pattern: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. This line is called a(an) _______ line. ‎
选项:
A: iambic pentameter
B:  iambic tetrameter
C: trochaic pentameter
D: trochaic tetrameter
答案: 【 iambic pentameter

3、单选题:
​The ______ sonnet consists of 3 quatrains (3 four-line stanza) and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.‏
选项:
A: Italian
B: English
C: Petrarchan
D: Spenserian
答案: 【 English

4、单选题:
​Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of ______ sonnets by William Shakespeare.​
选项:
A: 154
B: 108
C: 89
D: 38
答案: 【 154

5、单选题:
‌In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare compares his beloved to the ______ and argues that his beloved is even better. ‏
选项:
A: summer
B: spring
C: autumn
D: winter
答案: 【 summer

6、单选题:
​______ is an Elizabethan poet who stood for the Renaissance ideal of “the complete man.”​
选项:
A: Sir Philip Sidney
B: Shakespeare
C: Henry VIII
D: Edmund Spenser
答案: 【 Sir Philip Sidney

7、单选题:
​Spenser’s masterpiece ______ is an extended hymn dedicated to the Queen Elizabeth.‍
选项:
A: The Faerie Queen
B: Amoretti 
C: The Shepherd’s Calendar
D: Sonnets
答案: 【 The Faerie Queen

8、单选题:
​The basic unit of poetic meter in English is a ______ which normally consists of one stressed syllable plus one or two unstressed syllables. ‌
选项:
A: foot
B: syllable
C: word
D: phrase
答案: 【 foot

9、单选题:
‍A four-line stanza is called a ______. ‏
选项:
A: quatrain
B: couplet
C: triplet
D: sestet
答案: 【

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