Deanship of E-Learning and
Second Semester – 1432H (2011G)
Course: Eng. Lit. of the Renaissance (Eng. 280)
Time: --------- Total Marks: 03 Points
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Read the following sonnet by William Shakespeare
and then answer the questions below:
1. What does the poet mean by the expression "the eye of heaven"?
2. The poet describes his beloved as being lovely and "temperate". Which of the following words means "temperate" more than the others?
a. sober
b. moderate
c. impatient
d. angry
3. How many direct references does the poet make to summer throughout this
a. I
b. II
c. III
d. none
1. The Renaissance means :
a. the end of the Middle Ages.
b. the Early modern Times.
c. rebirth of Western learning and culture.
2. The Renaissance first began in:
3. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is an example of:
- Read the following (Sonnet no. 55) by Shakespeare and then
answer the questions that follow.
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn, 5
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room 10
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
1. Who is the speaker of this poem?
c. the writer’s lover
b. a friend of the poet
d. a lover and a poet
a. William Shakespeare
2. To whom is the poem addressed ( spoken)?
c. the reader
b. a beautiful but coy woman
a. an idealized friend or lover of the speaker
d. the dark lady
3. Which of the following best describes the theme of the poem?
c. Memory lives on.
a. War is wasteful and destructive.
d. A poet can overcome death.
b. Poetry and the memory of the person about whom this poem is written will outlast material things.
4. Which of the following best identifies the subject of sonnet 55?
b. the memory of the speaker’s beloved
c. the immortality of lovers