MCQ from Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day

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MCQ FROM SONNET 18- Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day

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SUGGESTIVE MCQ FROM SONNET 18 – SET- A

A. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ is

1. a nature poem
2. a philosophical poem
3. a devotional poem
4. a love poem

B. The ‘eye of heaven’ refers to 

1. the all-important sun
2. the poet
3. summer
4. the stars

C. Like other Shakespeare’s sonnet, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” has

1. octave
2. sestet
3. rhymed couplet
4. quatrains and a couplet

D. Sonnet l8 ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ is written by

1. Shelley
2. Keats
3. Shakespeare
4. Rimbaud

E. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ is Sonnet No.

1. 18
2. 16
3. 81
4. 28

F. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ is a/an 

1. ode
2. dramatic monologue
3. elegy
4. sonnet

G.”Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade”- The word ‘brag’ means to

1. drag
2. boast
3. pursue
4. tempt

H. “Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade” The figure of speech in the line is

1. simile
2. personification
3. metaphor
4. irony

A. 4. a love poem	E. 1. 18
B. 1. the all-important sun	F. 4. sonnet
C. 4.quatrains and a couplet	G. 2. boast
D. 3.Shakespeare	H. 2.personification

SET – B

A. The friend of the poet will grow

1. in his youth
2. in his own poetry
3. in the eternal lines of the sonnet
4. in death

B. “When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st” – ‘Eternal lines’ imply

1. eternal beauty of the young man
2. eternal poetry
3. eternal life
4. eternal existence

C. “So long lives this …” Here this’ refers to the poet’s

1. friend
2. sonnet
3. readers
4. beloved wife

D. The sonnet ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is by tone

1. optimistic
2. stoical
3. pessimistic
4. comic

E. Shakespeare is an artist of

1. Elizabethan age
2. Restoration age
3. Victorian age
4. Romantic age

F. The winds that blow in summer in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 are

1. balmy
2. weak
3. rough
4. hot

G. The winds that blow in Summer in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 are in

1. march
2. may
3. april
4. june

H. “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines”. The reference of ‘eye’ here is to

1. Mars
2. the Sun
3. Jupiter
4. the Moon

A. 2. in his own poetry	E. 1.Elizabethan age
B. 2. eternal poetry	F. 3. rough
C. 2.sonnet	G. 2.may
D. 1. optimistic	H. 2.the Sun

SET -C [MCQ from Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day]

A. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” is an/a

1. Horatian ode
2. Shakespearean sonnet
3. Petrarchan sonnet
4. Spenserian sonnet

B. “Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” Here thou’ refers to

1. his brother
2. the poet’s lady love
3. the poet’s dear friend
4. the poet himself

C. Death has no control over

1. the young person
2. beauty
3. the poet
4. poetry

D. Death in the poem is personified as

1. calm and quite
2. proud and boastful
3. cowardly but confident
4. kind and helpful

E. Shakespeare addressed this sonnet to

1. a young man
2. a young woman
3. Queen Elizabeth
4. Shakespeare’s wife

F. The phrase ‘by chance’ means

1. regularly
2. courageously
3. angrily
4. accidentally

G. One’s beauty can be spoiled

1. by chance
2. by both chance and nature
3. by natural course
4. by poetry

H. The sonnet begins with

1. a personification
2. an interrogation and metaphor
3. an alliteration
4. metaphor

A. 2. Shakespearean sonnet	E.1. a young man
B. 3. the poet’s dear friend	F. 4.accidentally
C. 2.beauty	G. 2.by both chance and nature
D. 2.proud and boastful	H. 1.an interrogation and metaphor

SET- D [ MCQ from Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ]

A. The eye of heaven” in Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet No 18’ refers to

1. the Sun
2. the moon
3. the poet
4. the clouds

B. The poet imagines that his friend possesses

1. eternal summer
2. momentary
3. no glory
4. charm

C. -Every fair from fair sometime declines

1. by chance or nature’s changing course
2. by man
3. by accident
4. by unseen power

D. The poet states that summer

1. is hot and humid
2. is constant
3. is not eternal
4. is eternal

E. The young person will live

1. as long as people read this sonnet
2. as long as eyes can see
3. as long as men can breathe
4. as long as ears can hear

F. In the Sonnet ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ the poet addresses

1. his friend
2. his wife
3. his mistress
4. the fan of his poetry

G. In the first quatrain of the sonnet, ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? the poet

1. establishes the young man’s superiority
2. considers the changing look of nature
3. bestows unchangeability to the young man
4. underlines the eternal beauty of the young man captured in his poetry

H. “And often is his gold complexion dimmed”,-Here ‘his’ refers to 

1. the moon
2. the sun
3. the poet
4. his friend

A. 1.the Sun	E. 1.as long as people read this sonnet
B. 1.eternal summer	F.1.his friend
C. 1.by chance or nature’s changing course	G. 4.underlines the eternal beauty of the young man captured in his poetry
D. 3.is not eternal	H. 2.the sun