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50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration

1. Who is credited with popularizing the sonnet form in English poetry?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Dante Alighieri
c) Petrarch
d) John Milton

2. How many lines does a traditional sonnet contain?
a) 10
b) 12
c) 14
d) 16

3. Which of the following is NOT a type of sonnet?
a) Petrarchan
b) Shakespearean
c) Spenserian
d) Ballad

4. How many syllables are typically in each line of a Shakespearean sonnet?
a) 8
b) 10
c) 12
d) 14

5. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is usually:
a) ABBAABBACDCDEE
b) ABABCDCDEFEFGG
c) ABBAABBACDCDEE
d) ABABCDCDECEDEE

6. Which poet is known for his sequence of sonnets dedicated to a “Dark Lady”?
a) Edmund Spenser
b) William Wordsworth
c) John Donne
d) William Shakespeare

7. In a Petrarchan sonnet, what is the typical rhyme scheme of the octave?
a) ABBAABBACDCDEE
b) ABABCDCDEFEFGG
c) ABBAABBACDCDEE
d) ABABCDCDECEDEE

8. Who wrote the sonnet sequence “Astrophil and Stella”?
a) Sir Thomas Wyatt
b) Philip Sidney
c) Edmund Spenser
d) John Donne

9. In a Petrarchan sonnet, what is the typical rhyme scheme of the sestet?
a) CDECDE
b) CDCDCD
c) CDECDE50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
d) CDCDCD

10. The volta in a sonnet refers to:
a) The first line of the poem
b) The turn or shift in thought or emotion
c) The last line of the poem
d) The title of the poem

11. Who is known for his sonnet beginning with the line “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”?
a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b) John Keats
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) Lord Byron

12. What is the subject matter of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?
a) Death
b) Love
c) Nature
d) Time

13. Which poet is known for his sequence of sonnets dedicated to the “Fair Youth”?
a) Sir Thomas Wyatt
b) Philip Sidney
c) Edmund Spenser
d) William Shakespeare

14. The Shakespearean sonnet is also known as the:
a) Italian sonnet
b) Petrarchan sonnet
c) Spenserian sonnet50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
d) English sonnet

15. Who is known for his “Amoretti” sequence of sonnets?
a) Edmund Spenser
b) John Milton
c) Sir Thomas Wyatt50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
d) John Donne

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16. How many quatrains are typically found in a Shakespearean sonnet?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

17. Who is known for his sonnet beginning with the line “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) John Keats
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) Lord Byron

18. Which poet is known for his innovative use of the sonnet form in “Sonnets from the Portuguese”?
a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Christina Rossetti
d) Sylvia Plath

19. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a sonnet?
a) Fixed rhyme scheme
b) Iambic pentameter
c) Length of 20 lines
d) Thematic unity

20. Who is known for his sonnet beginning with the line “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) John Keats
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) Lord Byron

21. In a Spenserian sonnet, what is the typical rhyme scheme of the quatrain?
a) ABBAABBACDCDEE
b) ABABCDCDEFEFGG
c) ABBAABBACDCDEE
d) ABABCDCDECEDEE

22. Which poet is known for his “sonneteering” and his contributions to the English sonnet sequence?
a) Sir Thomas Wyatt
b) Philip Sidney
c) Edmund Spenser50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
d) William Shakespeare

23. What is the last line of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?
a) “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,”
b) “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
c) “And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;”
d) “And every fair from fair sometime declines,”

24. Who wrote the collection of sonnets known as “The Sonnets”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) John Milton
c) John Donne
d) Edmund Spenser

25. In a Spenserian sonnet, what is the typical rhyme scheme of the closing couplet?
a) CC
b) DD
c) EE
d) GG

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26. Which poet wrote the sonnet “On His Blindness”?
a) John Donne
b) John Milton
c) William Shakespeare
d) Edmund Spenser

27. The term “quatrain” in a sonnet refers to:
a) A group of four lines
b) A group of six lines
c) A group of eight lines
d) A group of ten lines

28. Who is known for his “Holy Sonnets”?
a) John Donne
b) John Milton
c) William Shakespeare
d) Edmund Spenser

29. Which poet is known for his sonnet beginning with the line “Death, be not proud”?
a) John Donne
b) John Milton
c) William Shakespeare50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
d) Edmund Spenser

30. Who is known for his “Sonnets to Orpheus”?
a) Rainer Maria Rilke
b) Pablo Neruda50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
c) William Wordsworth
d) T.S. Eliot

31. How many lines are in a quatrain of a sonnet?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5

32. Who is known for his “Elegiac Sonnets“?
a) Charlotte Smith
b) William Wordsworth
c) Samuel

Taylor Coleridge
d) Percy Bysshe Shelley

33. What is the primary subject matter of Petrarchan sonnets?
a) Romantic love
b) Religious devotion
c) Political commentary
d) Nature

34. Who is known for his “Sonnets Written During the World War”?
a) Rupert Brooke
b) Wilfred Owen
c) Siegfried Sassoon
d) Robert Graves

35. Which poet wrote “Astrophil and Stella,” a sonnet sequence?
a) Sir Thomas Wyatt
b) Philip Sidney
c) Edmund Spenser
d) William Shakespeare

36. Who is known for his “Sonnets of the Portuguese”?
a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Christina Rossetti
d) Sylvia Plath

37. What is the last line of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130?
a) “If this be error and upon me proved,”
b) “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare”
c) “And in some perfumes is there more delight”
d) “Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.”

38. Who is known for his “Sonnets from the Portuguese”?
a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Christina Rossetti
d) Sylvia Plath

39. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a Shakespearean sonnet?
a) Three quatrains and a couplet
b) Iambic pentameter
c) ABBA rhyme scheme
d) Volta or turn in thought50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration

40. What is the subject matter of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130?
a) Death
b) Love
c) Nature
d) Time50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration

41. Who is known for his “Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems”?
a) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
b) Gerard Manley Hopkins
c) Algernon Charles Swinburne
d) A.C. Benson

42. Which of the following poets is known for his sonnet beginning with the line “The world is too much with us”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
d) John Keats

43. What is the primary subject matter of Spenserian sonnets?
a) Romantic love
b) Religious devotion
c) Political commentary50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
d) Nature

44. Who is known for his “Sonnets Written During the World War”?
a) Rupert Brooke50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
b) Wilfred Owen
c) Siegfried Sassoon
d) Robert Graves

45. Which of the following poets is known for his sonnet beginning with the line “The world is too much with us”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) John Keats

46. Who is known for his “Sonnets Written During the World War”?
a) Rupert Brooke
b) Wilfred Owen
c) Siegfried Sassoon
d) Robert Graves

47. Which of the following poets is known for his sonnet beginning with the line “The world is too much with us”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) John Keats

48. Who is known for his “Sonnets Written During the World War”?
a) Rupert Brooke
b) Wilfred Owen
c) Siegfried Sassoon
d) Robert Graves

49. Which of the following poets is known for his sonnet beginning with the line “The world is too much with us”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) John Keats

50. Who is known for his “Sonnets Written During the World War”?
a) Rupert Brooke
b) Wilfred Owen
c) Siegfried Sassoon
d) Robert Graves50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration

Answer

1. a) William Shakespeare
2. c) 14
3. d) Ballad
4. b) 10
5. b) ABABCDCDEFEFGG50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
6. d) William Shakespeare
7. a) ABBAABBACDCDEE
8. b) Philip Sidney50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
9. d) CDCDCD
10. b) The turn or shift in thought or emotion
11. a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12. c) Nature
13. d) William Shakespeare
14. d) English sonnet
15. a) Edmund Spenser
16. d) 4
17. a) William Shakespeare
18. a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
19. c) Length of 20 lines
20. a) William Shakespeare
21. a) ABBAABBACDCDEE
22. c) Edmund Spenser
23. c) “And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;”
24. a) William Shakespeare
25. d) GG
26. b) John Milton
27. a) A group of four lines
28. a) John Donne
29. a) John Donne
30. a) Rainer Maria Rilke
31. c) 4
32. c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
33. a) Romantic love
34. a) Rupert Brooke
35. c) Edmund Spenser
36. a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
37. c) “And in some perfumes is there more delight”
38. a) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
39. c) ABBA rhyme scheme
40. b) Love
41. c) Algernon Charles Swinburne
42. a) William Wordsworth
43. d) Nature
44. b) Wilfred Owen
45. a) William Wordsworth
46. c) Siegfried Sassoon
47. a) William Wordsworth
48. c) Siegfried Sassoon50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration
49. a) William Wordsworth
50. b) Wilfred Owen50+ MCQs on Sonnet with Answers for UGC NET / SET Prepration