Module 3A - Love is A Many Splendored Thing - Sonnets

Review Quiz - John Smith and William Shakespeare

1. On his way to find supplies, how many Indian bowmen followed and attacked John Smith?
300

2. What do you call the 9th line of a sonnet which serves as the transition from the first to the
second idea?
Volta

3. What instrument did John Smith claimed to have saved his life from Opechancanough’s decision
to execute him?
Double compass dial

4. Who is the Emperor of Werowocomoco who almost persecuted John Smith?

Powhatan

5. Who was Shakespeare obliged to marry?

Anne Hathaway

6. What was the most pressing problem that the colonists experience during their first months in
the new world?
Supply shortage

7. In Sonnet 116, we can infer that Shakespeare stands by his definition of love as he is willing to
put his own reputation as a poet on the line.
True

8. This is the technique used in the first quatrain of Sonnet 116 to define love.
Negation

9. How did the Captain survive the Indian attack?

He wrapped a savage as a shield

10. The couplet is the first two lines of a sonnet which gives the summary of the piece.
False