Shakespeare
UNIT II
1. In Shakespearean sonnets time
is _____
a. Personified b. amplified c. simplified d.
a metaphor
2. Shakespeare addressed his
first 126 sonnets to-------------
a. fair youth b. dark lady c. Earl of Southampton d. Elizabeth
3. Shakespeare’s sonnets are
deeply --------------------
a. comical b. auto biographical c. tragical d.
pastoral
4. And every………… from fair
sometime declines
a. fair b.
fare c. faith d. hair
5. ‘But thy eternal summer shall
not fade’. Here summer means…………
a. life b. health c.
wealth d. beauty
6. Shakespeare says that the fair
youth will live on in his enduring --------------
a. poetry b. life c. love d.
monologues
7. In sonnet 18, Shakespeare
attempts to compare his friend’s beauty to ______
a. spring time b. summer’s day c. sunflower d. a garden
8. Shakespeare’s friend’s beauty is _____ than a summer’s day.
a. temperate b. hotter c. brighter d.
warmer
9. The eternal summer in sonnet 18 refers to the_________ of the friend
a. youth and beauty b. life c.
Love d. wealth
10. The ‘eye of heaven’ refers to
_____
a. God b. Sun c. stars d. moon
11. In sonnet 65 whose “action is
no stronger than a flower?
a. Youthfulness’ b.
Mary Fitton’s c. Beauty’s d.
the poet’s
12. In sonnet 65, time destroys brass, stone earth and ----------
a. sky b. sun c. sea d. stars
13. In sonnet 65, Shakespeare’s friend’s youth is compared to
--------------
a. flower b.
rain c. breeze d. moonlight
14. In--------, Shakespeare’s friend’s youth is compared to sweet
honey.
a. Sonnet 65 b. sonnet
18 c. sonnet 116 d. sonnet 121
15. Shakespeare compares time to a ------------ in sonnet 65.
a. Lion b. king c. thief d. culprit
16. In sonnet 65, time is going steal --------- of his friend
a. Money b.
happiness c. beauty d. peace
17. The battering storm of time
decays the rocks and the ____
a. sand b.
pebbles c. gates of steel d. flowers
18. “What strong back hand can hold his swift foot”, his refers to
_____
a. poet b.
poet’s friend c. Time d.
Beauty
19. “What strong back hand can hold his swift foot”, his refers to _____
a. poet b. poet’s friend c.
Time d. Beauty
20. In sonnet 65, the word ‘impregnable’ means---------------
a. strong b.
weak c. confident d. abandoned
21. In sonnet 65, the poet made immortalize the --------------
a. beauty of his friend b. memories of his friend
c. love of friend d. valour of
his friend
22. Love is not true which ____
a. flourishes b. alters c. grows d. stagnates
23. The ‘his’ in, “though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending
sickle compass come”, refers to_____
a. Time b. poet’s friend c. reaper d.
fair youth
24. ____ is a like a fixed beacon which withstands storm
a. The poet b. true
lovers c. true love d.
friendship
25. True love bears it to the edge of the ____
a. Cliff b.
time c. bankruptcy d. doom
26. Shakespeare etches his friend’s beauty in _____
a. Indian Ink b. eye liner c. verse d.
paint
27. Love does not end with his death, instead it lives as long as the _____
lives.
a. world b.
poem c. sea d. fair youth
28. True love is like a star to the wandering _____
a. bark b.
poet c. saint d.
astronomers
29. In sonnet 116, the poet has realized that love is not Time’s
-----------
a. friend b. fool c. foe d. father
30. ----------- cannot create any obstacles in the way of the union of
true lovers.
a. family b. enemies
c. time d. fate
31. True love is like a ----------
a. pole star b. river c. stone d. iron
32. --------- have no effect on true love in sonnet 116.
a. family b. enemies
c. time d. fate
33. Time may take away the ----------------- beauty of the object of
love.
a. physical b. spiritual c. moral d.
inner
34. “O, no! it is ever –fixed mark”- It refers to what?
a. star b. time c. love d.
sun
35. “If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever
loved.”- These are the concluding couplet of sonnet ------
a. 18 b.
65 c. 116 d. 121
36. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments”- these
are the opening lines of sonnet--------------
a. 18 b. 65 c. 116 d. 121
37. “------------- is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds”
a. sympathy b. love
c. benevolence d. charity
38. “When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st”- ‘Thou’ refers to
Shakespeare’s---------------
a. friend b.
mistress c. wife d. patron
39. “And often is his gold complexion dimmed”- ‘his’ refers
to--------------
a. friend b. sun c. may flower d. none of the above
40. “And --------------‘s lease hath all too short a date”
a. summer b.
spring c. autumn d. winter
41. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”- ‘thee’ refers to Shakespeare’s---------
a. friend b.
mistress c. wife d. patron
42. “Tis better be ____ than vile esteemed”
a. Loved b. vile c.
violated d. dead
43. “Unless
this general evil they maintain:
All……………
are bad, and in their badness reign.
a. lives b. men c.
women d. things
44. In sonnet 121 what does
‘sportive blood’ mean?
a. Athlete’s blood b.
young blood
c. sensuous
deeds d.
adventurous person
45. People who try to expose the ill doings of others in
fact expose ____
a. their own
b. justice c.
freedom d.
their love
46. The ‘eye of heaven’ refers to
_____
a. God b. Sun c. stars d.
moon
47. When a person is merely
accused of being bad he loses ____
a.
Reputation b. peace of mind c.
pleasure d. joy
48. In
sonnet 121, one of the themes could be-----------
a. love b. friendship c. betrayal d. philosophy of
life
49.
Shakespeare calls the persons who have greater faults than him as----------
a. victims b.
ill minded c. frailer spies d.
criminals
50. In sonnet
121, the word ‘bevel’ means------------------
a. remembrance b.
crooked c. aim d.
wicked
