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Sonnet in Popular Culture

This quiz tests your knowledge of sonnets in popular culture.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which famous Shakespearean sonnet begins with the line, "When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced"?

  1. Sonnet 18
  2. Sonnet 64
  3. Sonnet 116
  4. Sonnet 130
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which play does Shakespeare's character Romeo recite Sonnet 116?

  1. Romeo and Juliet
  2. Hamlet
  3. Othello
  4. King Lear
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the sonnet "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"?

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. John Donne
  3. Edmund Spenser
  4. Sir Philip Sidney
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which famous sonnet begins with the line, "The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers"?

  1. Sonnet 18
  2. Sonnet 30
  3. Sonnet 43
  4. Sonnet 116
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning begins with the line, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 14
  3. Sonnet 43
  4. Sonnet 54
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by John Milton begins with the line, "When I consider how my light is spent"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 7
  3. Sonnet 19
  4. Sonnet 23
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley begins with the line, "Ozymandias, king of kings, look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 10
  3. Sonnet 51
  4. Sonnet 88
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by William Wordsworth begins with the line, "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 12
  3. Sonnet 33
  4. Sonnet 45
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by John Keats begins with the line, "When I have fears that I may cease to be"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 11
  3. Sonnet 25
  4. Sonnet 39
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay begins with the line, "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 14
  3. Sonnet 30
  4. Sonnet 55
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by e.e. cummings begins with the line, "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 10
  3. Sonnet 44
  4. Sonnet 55
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Pablo Neruda begins with the line, "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 17
  3. Sonnet 66
  4. Sonnet 100
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Federico García Lorca begins with the line, "The moon has died in the water"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 4
  3. Sonnet 12
  4. Sonnet 18
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Gabriela Mistral begins with the line, "I have loved you with a love so deep"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 10
  3. Sonnet 20
  4. Sonnet 30
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which sonnet by Octavio Paz begins with the line, "The shadow of the eagle on the sand"?

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 5
  3. Sonnet 10
  4. Sonnet 15
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