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1. Who or what is the speaker of this poem?
a. William Shakespeare
b. a friend of the poet
c. the writer’s lover
d. a lover and a poet
e. “You”
2. To whom is the poem spoken?
a. an idealized friend or lover of the speaker
b. a beautiful but coy woman
c. the reader d. Queen Elizabeth I
e. the dark lady
3. Which of the following best describes the theme of the poem?
a. war is wasteful and destructive
b. poetry and the memory of the person about whom this poem is written will outlast material things
c. poetry can never be a destructive force
d. memory lives on
e. a poet can overcome death
4. Which of the following best identifies the subject of Sonnet #55
a. time and war
b. the memory of the speaker’s beloved
c. the immortality of lovers
d. death and love
e. the “all-oblivious enmity”
5. All of the following are mentioned as powers of destruction in the poem EXCEPT
a. unfeeling nature
b. time
c. death
d. war
e. malevolent forgetfulnes