1.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
The structure of Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” is:
Spondylic trimeter
Dactylic tetrameter
Anapestic hexameter
Trochaic pentameter
Iambic tetrameter
2. In Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”, “[the shepherd] will make a
bed of roses and a thousand fragrant posies” is an example of:
a. Metaphor
b. Hyperbole
c. Oxymoron
d. Imagery
3. In Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”, in context, the repetition of
“Come live with me and be my love” (1,20) is suggestive of:
a. His persistence
b. His devotion
c. His idiocy
d. His grief
4.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” primarily focuses on:
Opposing the idea of finding love
Comparing the differences between love and lust
Cataloging the pleasure that the shepherd would provide for the nymph as a show of love
Explaining how the shepherd is desperate for someone’s love.
5. In Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”, the word “wanton” in “The
flowers do fade, and wanton fields /To wayward winter reckoning yields” (9-10)
a. A Chinese delicacy
b. Destruction
c. Lack of control
d. Immoral action
6. In Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”, the word “gall” (11) most likely
refers to:
a. Love
b. A heart of gold
c. Bitterness
d. Hatred
7. In Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”, which line best describes the
nymph’s disapproval of the shepherd’s thinking?
a. “And truth in every shepherd’s tongue” (2)
b. “The rest complain of cares to come” (8)
c. “In folly ripe, in reason rotten” (16)
d. “Then these delights my mind might move” (23)
8. In Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”, what technique is used in “soon
break, soon wither, soon forgotten” (45)
a. Simile
b. Climactic order
c. Hyperbole
d. Repetition
9. How does Raleigh’s “nymph” poem correspond to Marlowe’s “Shepherd” poem?
a. A rejection because the item’s that Marlowe’s promises can’t make the nymph fall in love.
b. An Acceptance poem to show that the nymph really does love what the.
c. To compare the Nymph’s ideas of love to the Shepherd’s.
d. To express the Nymph’s love to someone other than the Shepherd.
10.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which of the following best demonstrates the shepherd’s “honey tongue” (11)?
“come live with me” (Marlowe 1)
“gown made of the finest wool” (Marlowe 13)
“the flowers do fade” (Raleigh 9)
“with buckles of the purest gold” (Marlowe 16)
11. In Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” the tone is best described as:
a. Dismissive
b. Unrealistic
c. Condemning
d. Joyful
12. How does the last stanza of Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” add to
the significance of the entire poem?
a. Provides the theme that falling in love is inevitable
b. Provides a theme about pleasurable items as perishable and love should be from the heart.
c. To conclude why the Nymph is in love with the Shepherd.
d. To start a new thematic example on why love is important.