Sonnet No 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Multiple Choice Question from Sonnet No 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
1. “The eye of heaven” in Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 18 refers to
(a) the sun
(b) the moon
(c) the poet
(d) the clouds
Answer: (a) the sun
2. “So long lives this ……” the word ‘this’ refers to –
(a) The virtue of the poet’s friend
(b) The summer season
(c) The poet’s verse
(d) The summer’s day
Answer: (c) The poet’s verse
3. “Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” -The word ‘thou’ refers to
(a) the poet’s lady love
(b) the poet’s mother
(c) the poet’s friend
(d) the poet himself
Answer: (c) the poet’s friend
4. “And often is his gold complexion dimmed”. The word ‘his’ refer to –
(a) summer season
(b) A summer day
(c) The poet’s friend
(d) Sun
Answer: (d) Sun
5. “But thy eternal summer shall not fade.” – The word opposite in meaning to ‘eternal’ is
(a) universal
(b) temporal
(c) decayed
(d) momentary
Answer: (b) temporal
6. The darling buds of May are shaken by –
(a) Hot Sun
(b) Rough winds
(c) Violent Strom
(d) Frost
Answer: (b) Rough winds
7. “And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”— The word ‘lease’ bears
(a) medical metaphor
(b) legal metaphor
(c) political metaphor
(d) sports metaphor
Answer: (b) legal metaphor
8. ‘Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?’ is a –
(a) Lyric
(b) Balland
(c) Sonnet
(d) Dramatic monologue
Answer: (c) Sonnet
9. The poem sonnet 18 of Shakespeare consists of
(a) 2 couplets 2 quatrains
(b) 4 quatrains
(c) 3 couplet 3 quatrains
(d) 1 couplet 3 quatrains
Answer: (d) 1 couplet 3 quatrains
10. The phrase ‘eternal summer’ suggests-
(a) death of the poet’s friend
(b) talent of the poet’s friend
(c) poet’s death
(d) youthfulness of the poet’s friend
Answer: (d) youthfulness of the poet’s friend
11. The winds that blow in summer in Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet No. 18’ are-
(a) balmy
(b) weak
(c) hot
(d) rough
Answer: (d) rough
12. “And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.’ – the word ‘summer’s lease refers to.
(a) Tired during summer
(b) span of summer
(c) Rough weather of summer
(d) Glory of summer
Answer: (b) span of summer
13. The ‘darling buds’ are shaken by rough winds in
(a) March
(b) April
(c) May
(d) June
Answer: (c) May
14. “But the eternal summer shall not fade” . The term ‘eternal summer’ refers to –
(a) A day in summer
(b) Eternal youth of the poet’s friend
(c) The summer season
(d) The eternal love of the poet
Answer: (b) Eternal youth of the poet’s friend
15. “So long lives this.” —Here ‘this’ means,
(a) the poet’s friend
(b) the poet’s sonnet
(c) the poet’s pet
(d) the poet’s maid
Answer: (b) the poet’s sonnet
16. What is the form of sonnet 18?
(a) abab abcd efg efg
(b) abba abba cdcd cd
(c) abab cdcd efef gg
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) abab cdcd efef gg
17. What is the controlling simile in the poem?
(a) summers day
(b) eternal summer
(c) clouds
(d) flowers.
Answer: (a) summers day.
18. What kind of complexion does the sun have?
(a) golden
(b) yellow
(c) blue
(d) red.
Answer: (a) golden
19. The poet states that summer is-
(a) not eternal
(b) hot and humid
(c) eternal
(d) constant
Answer: (b) hot and humid
20. The poet’s friend is more lovely and more –
(a) Temperate
(b) Bright
(c) Attractive
(d) Beautiful
Answer: (a) Temperate
21. Nature’s changing course is –
(a) dimmed
(b) temperate
(c) untrimmed
(d) lovely.
Answer: (c) untrimmed
22. The poet states that fair –
(a) is subject to change
(b) is the opposite of unfair
(c) can only diminish marginally
(d) is never subject to change
Answer: a) is subject to change
23. How is the gold-complexion of the sun dimmed?
(a) by a canopy
(b) by the clouds
(c) by the trees
(d) by the shade.
Answer: (b) by the clouds
24. “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines” – The reference here is to –
(a) the Mars
(b) the Sun
(c) the Moon
(d) Jupiter.
Answer: (b) the Sun
25. The fair youth’s beauty surpasses the beauty of
(a) nature
(b) Summer
(c) Autumn
(d) winter
Answer: (b) Summer