
Sonnets 30 & 75 Edmund Spenser

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English
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12th Grade
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Inas Adel
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“What more miraculous thing may be told
That fire which all things melts, should harden ice
The speaker wonders why the more he pleads with his beloved ...
the closer she draws near to him
the colder she becomes
the more her ice melts
the further she runs from him
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"“What more miraculous thing may be told
That fire which all things melts, should harden ice" The speaker asks why his beloved’s coldness does not
cool his desire
dissolve their relationship
delay their marriage
fade away
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“Such is the pow’r of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind. “ The speaker concludes that ...
their love is dying
his beloved is preparing to leave him
he should give up on his beloved
love has supernatural powers
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away". The setting of the poem is....
The speaker's beachhouse
On board a ship
Along the beach
in heaven
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.8
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise." What does the speaker’s beloved say about his efforts to write her name in the sand?
She asks him to keep trying so that she can see her name written in the sand.
She says it is pointless because, just as she will die someday, her name will be wiped out and forgotten
She scolds him for doing such a ridiculous thing
She praises his efforts for immortalizing her name.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.13
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew."
Why does the speaker say that his beloved’s name, as well as their love, will last forever?
Because he has written about them in his poetry.
Because they have become famous.
Because songs about her virtues will be sung throughout eternity.
Because the heavens will declare her glorious name.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.13
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
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