pop quiz

If you can do this quiz, good for you, you obviously know your sonnets! If you can’t, don’t worry. Remember you don’t have to be a genius to appreciate one.

1. In the dedication to the sonnets is it: Mr W. H. all happiness or Mr W. Hall’s a penis?
2. When were the Sonnets published?
3. How many lines in a sonnet?
4. How many feet in one line?
5. What Greek name do we give to this line of verse?
6. What’s the first Muse sonnet and how many of them are there?
7. Which 2 sonnets were published in 1599, 10 years before the rest?
8. What do sonnets 36 and 96 share in common?
9. In which sonnet is ‘a jewel (hung in ghastly night)’ ?
10. Which two sonnets are exactly halfway through the series?
11. Which 3 sonnets are not technically sonnets?
12. Which 2 sonnets are known as the ‘Will’ sonnets?
13. Give two synonyms for Cupid, as used in the final 2 sonnets, 153 +154.
14. Why love Shakespeare?