Wyatt

1. As pointed out in the NAEL introduction to Wyatt and HTL, Wyatt was heavily influenced by the current literature of: (a) France (b) Germany (c) Italy (d) Spain

2. As pointed out by the NAEL introduction and PDLT/HTL, Wyatt was a pioneer in introducing into English the poetic form: (a) verse epic (b) vilanelle (c) sestina (d) sonnet

3. As pointed out by the NAEL introduction and PDLT/HTL, Wyatt was influenced in the poetic form he introduced by the literary master: (a) Petrarch (b) Villon (c) Homer (d) Rilke

4. As pointed out by the NAEL introduction and HTL, a peculiar aspect of publication of poetry by the upper classes of this time is that generally the poets' poems: (a) had an obligatory introduction in the book by Henry VIII (b) only circulated in handwritten form (c) had to receive a censorship rating for sexual content (d) appeared in bilingual editions with Latin versions on one side of the page and English versions on the facing page

5. As pointed out by the NAEL introduction, the most important anthology of poetry of the time (Shakespeare has his character Shallow refer to it in The Merry Wives of Windsor), including many of Wyatt's poems, was: (a) Palgrave's Golden Treasury (b) Tottel's Miscellany (c) The Yellow Book (d) The Decameron

6. As pointed out in the NAEL introduction, PNQ (Prinsky's Notes and Questions), and NNERL (Norm's Notes on English Renaissance Literature), a hallmark of Wyatt's poetry is the use of: (a) the refrain (b) the fourteener line (c) almost no figurative language (d) pervasive allusion to Classical mythology

7. As pointed out in the NAEL introduction, PNQ, and NNERL, the tone of many of Wyatt's poems is: (a) joyous (b) fastidiously elegant (c) placid (d) bitter

8. The characteristic tone of many of Wyatt's poems probably stems from all the following except which one: (a) Wyatt's own diplomatic career (b) life at Henry VIII's court (c) Wyatt's own personal experiences (d) the Petrarchan model

9. A metrical form pioneered by Wyatt and Surrey was: (a) alliterative verse (b) dimeter (c) alexandrine (d) tetrameter

10. Wyatt, (Henry Howard, Earl of) Surrey, and Henry VIII were perhaps the most important members of the group: (a) Cockney School (b) Courtly Makers (c) Cavaliers (d) Misogynists' Club

11. Wyatt, along with Surrey, helped to introduce into "modern" (= "early modern" = Renaissance) English poetry all the following except which one: (a) ottava rima (b) poulter's measure (c) rhyme royal (d) terza rima

12. The tenor of the sestet of "The long love that in my thought doth harbor," based on the vehicle of Love's flight into the "heart's forest," is: (a) the Lover's blanching (b) the Lady's smiling (c) the King's forbidding (d) the court's backstabbing

13. As pointed out in NAEL, Wyatt's poem "Whoso List to Hunt," the next-to-last line of which is "Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am"(13), seems to allude to: (a) Queen Elizabeth I (b) Anne Boleyn (c) Sir Thomas More (d) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

14. In Wyatt's sonnet "Whoso list to hunt," the metaphor in line 8 ("Since in a net I seek to hold the wind") suggests not only the quality of freedom of the lady, but also her: (a) probity (b) urbanity (c) dignity (d) levity

15. In Wyatt's sonnet "Farewell, Love[, and all thy laws forever]," the last line alludes to a submerged pun or play on two meanings of the word: (a) "lovers" (b) "longitude" (c) "limbs" (d) "I"

16. Wyatt's sonnet "My galley [charged with forgetfulness]" exemplifies: (a) dramatic irony (b) extended metaphor (c) hysteron proteron (d) chant royal

17. Both "Divers doth use" and "They flee from me" make ironic punning use of the word kind to mean not only "considerate" or "affectionate" but also: (a) "natural" (b) "polite" (c) "child-like" (d) "inflammatory"

18. A notable stylistic feature of "Madam, withouten many words" is the poem's: (a) metaphysical conceit (b) echeloning of lines (c) Italian sonnet form (d) limited figurative language

19. In the poems "My lute, awake!" and "Blame not my lute," important elements are all of the following except which one: (a) allusion to Wyatt's imprisonment in the Tower (b) refrain (c) allusion to the connection between music and poetry in the English Renaissance (d) apostrophe

20. In the poems referred to in the immediately preceding question, the refrain helps to suggest about the speaker, as in other of Wyatt's poems, all of the following except which one: (a) insistence (b) ambition (c) intensity (d) constancy (e) straightforwardness

21. In "My lute, awake!" and "Blame not my lute," the speaker's relationship with the musical instrument (implicit as well as explicit) suggests the speaker's: (a) pride of artistic or musical accomplishment (b) allusion to Henry VIII's cultural philistinism (c) us-two-against-the-world mentality (d) belief in the Platonic theory of the mathematical and philosophical basis of music

22. Wyatt's "Mine Own John Poins" represents the poetry genre of: (a) chant royal (b) encomium (c) sestina (d) verse epistle

23. The main parts of Wyatt's "Mine Own John Poins"(lines 1-79 and 80-103) are founded on the contrast between: (a) England vs. France (b) rich vs. poor (c) inside vs. outside (d) male vs. female

24. A notable stylistic device or figure recurrent in "Mine Own John Poins" (lines 1-35) is: (a) anadiplosis (b) anaphora (c) aposiopesis (d) asyndeton

25. The figure of speech referred to in the immediately preceding question helps convey all of the following except which one about the speaker: (a) the satirist's pride (b) his vehemence (c) the single source (royal court) of a multitude (moral defects)(d) his insistence

26. The iterative image of the cloak in "Mine Own John Poins" (lines 5, 20, 61) mainly helps convey the idea of: (a) protection (b) lavishness (c) disingenuousness (d) courtesy

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

27. As pointed out in the NAEL introduction, Surrey had close, favorable, and dangerous connections with: (a) France and Russia (b) Catholicism and royalty (c) pirates and smugglers (d) Ann Boleyn and Jane Shore

28. As pointed out in the NAEL introduction, PDLT/HTL, and NNERL, Surrey was a pioneer in introducing into English literature: (a) blank verse (b) rhymed couplets (c) the ode (d) the rondeau

29. As pointed out in the NAEL introduction and NNERL, with regard to Wyatt's prosody (rhythm and meter), Surrey's is: (a) quantitative rather than accentual (b) apparently smoother and more finished (c) equally beholden to the ancient Hebrew poetry of the Psalms (d) archaic, in pointing backwards to the Old English alliterative or accentual verse of Beowulf

30. (As pointed out in PNQ,) Surrey's "The Soote Season" ("The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings,/ With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale"[lines 1-2]), in which the lover-speaker describes natural beauty and joy all around him, makes use (as indicated in PNQ) of which kind of structure for the poem: (a) circular (b) none at all (c) constant oscillating (d) reversal

31. A figure of speech used notably and thematically (for contrast) in the last line of Surrey's "The Soote Season" is: (a) parale(i)psis (b) parataxis (c) paronomasia (d) periphrasis (e) polyptoton

32. In comparison with line 11 of Wyatt's "The long love that in my thought doth harbor," the personified Love in line 10 of Surrey's "Love, that doth reign and live within my thought" is more: (a) taciturn (b) cowardly (c) whining (d) heroic

33. As pointed out in PNQ, when the speaker in "Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace" refers to his (as they would say in the Psychology Department) stimulus "whereat I weep and sing,/In joy and woe"(8-9), Surrey uses the figure of speech: (a) synecdoche (b) paradox (c) understatement (d) asyndeton

34. As pointed out in PNQ, when the speaker in "Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace" refers to his "doubtful ease"(9), Surrey uses the figure of speech: (a) oxymoron (b) metaphor (c) polysyndeton (d) personification

35. The figures of speech referred to in the immediately preceding two questions point to what quality of romantic love: (a) steadiness (b) variability (c) altruism (d) hypocrisy

36. Surrey's terminology used for negative evaluation of the subject in "Th'Assyrians' king, in peace with foul desire" would probably be of most interest to which kind of literary critic: (a) New (Criticism) (b) Structuralist (c) Marxist (d) Feminist

37. As pointed out in PNQ, both "So cruel prison how could betide"/"Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth His Pleasure There Passed" and "Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest"/"Epitaph on Sir Thomas Wyatt" make use of what main principle of organization or structure, thematically related to the poem's subject: (a) chronological (b) spatial (c) five-pointed star (d) logical by "scientific" (at the time) signs of the zodiac

38. The poetry genre of Surrey's "Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest" could be classified as: (a) ballade (b) elegy (c) rondel (d) sestina (e) vilanelle

39. The organization of Surrey's "Wyatt resteth here" is mainly, and overall: (a) overall up to overall down (b) alternating up and down (c) overall down to overall up (d) left to right (e) right to left

40. The organizational principle referred to in the immediately preceding question helps convey Wyatt's: (a) energy (b) decline (c) ascendance (d) stability (e) inconstancy

41. The primary figure of speech by which Wyatt is discussed in "Wyatt resteth here" (as indicated by the beginnings of most stanzas) is: (a) chiasmus (b) hyperbaton (c) synecdoche (d) zeugma

42. The speaker of "O happy dames, that may embrace" is a: (a) man (b) woman (c) group of men (d) group of women

43. The speaker in referring to the "salt flood" (line 31) in "O happy dames, that may embrace" is using the figure of speech: (a) simile (b) metonymy (c) periphrasis (d) antimetabole

44. The appropriateness of the figure of speech in the immediately preceding question is that it strongly suggests or connotes: (a) the potential manner of the beloved's death (b) the source of the happy dames' economic prosperity (look up salt in your collegiate dictionary for meanings related to economics) (c) the speaker's or speakers' plentiful, stinging wit (d) the pollution of Britain's waterways under the reign of Henry VIII

45. The contrast in emphasis or subject matter between Wyatt's "Who list his wealth and ease retain" and Surrey's "Martial, the things that do attain" is that between: (a) politics versus philosophy (b) democracy versus aristocracy (c) the older generation versus the younger generation (d) stoicism versus hedonism

46. The particular passage excerpted from Surrey's incomplete translation of Virgil's Aeneid (only Books II and IV) probably appealed to Surrey, as did Book IV generally because of the focus on: (a) hunting (b) nature (c) architecture (d) love

Philip Sidney

47. As pointed out in the NAEL introduction to Sidney, Sidney's endeavors in literature included all the following except which one: (a) fiction writer (b) poet (c) literary theorist (d) dramatist

48. As pointed out in the NAEL intro, Sidney's sonnet cycle, Astrophil and Stella, is indebted to the continental European poetic forbear: (a) Marie de France (b) Francis Petrarch (c) Martin Opitz (d) Garcilaso de la Vega

49. As pointed out in the NAEL intro (and the NAEL notes), the real Stella was probably: (a) Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (b) Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (c) Queen Elizabeth I (d) Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

50. As pointed out in the NAEL intro and PNQ, Astrophil and Stella and other sonnet cycles have: (a) no plot, but rather an alphabetical list of characters cycled through (b) a loose plot, cycling through a range of feelings, but concluding inconclusively (c) an articulated definite plot, closely adhering to the ideas of Aristotle's Poetics (d) the features of the Medieval Morality play, including the inevitable Vice character

51. As pointed out in the NAEL intro, the overall subject of Astrophil and Stella is ultimately: (a) a compendium of political and philosophical advice (b) an ironic examination of court life (c) a veiled description of how Sidney actually wooed and won his wife (d) an anatomy of romantic love

52. As pointed out in NAEL, one main function of the songs in Astrophil and Stella is to provide: (a) comic relief (b) compliments to Queen Elizabeth (c) Stella's voice (d) dactylic hexameter verse form

53. The title of Sidney's sonnet sequence contains a pun on: (a) the author's actual name (b) the beloved's actual name (c) the king's family name (d) the queen's name (e) one of the king's favorite hobbies

54. Sidney (or Astrophil) repeatedly in the NAEL selections of Astrophil and Stella makes clever poetic use of the color of Stella's eyes, which are: (a) brown (b) blue (c) black (d) green

55. The color of Stella's hair is the same as the color of the beloved lady's hair in all of the following except which one (all assigned selections in NAEL): (a) Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (b) Samuel Daniel's Delia (c) Shakespeare's sonnets (d) Thomas Carew's "Song: 'Ask me no more where Jove bestows'"

56. Sidney in Astrophil and Stella (as pointed out in NNERL) often wittily portrays the conflict between: (a) upper and lower social classes (b) royal court and the rest of the country (c) England and France (d) body and mind

57. As portrayed in the NAEL selections of Astrophil and Stella, the most Astrophil gets from Stella is a: (a) cold look (b) kiss (c) handkerchief (d) private conversation

58. Sonnets 1, 6, 15, 16, 28, 45, and 74 of Astrophil and Stella all share as a main subject: (a) literature (b) politics (c) music (d) economics (e) foreign diplomacy

59. Sonnets 10, 15, 16, 18, 21, 39, 41, 47, and 74 of Astrophil and Stella all have the distinctive feature of: (a) substitution of antonomasia and consequent deletion of the beloved's name (b) combined, blended form of the speaker's and beloved's names (c) acrostic reference to the beloved's name (d) climactic placement of the beloved's name

60. The structure (helping to convey theme) of sonnets 1, 5, 21, and 71 of Astrophil and Stella is most closely analogous to that of: (a) John Skelton's "To Mistress Margaret Hussey" (b) Thomas Wyatt's "Divers Doth Use" (c) Thomas Wyatt's "Blame Not My Lute" (d) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's "The Soote Season" (e) Surrey's "Love, that doth reign and live within my thought"

61. In both the first and second sonnets of Astrophil and Stella, Sidney meaningfully uses the rhetorical figure: (a) polysyndeton (b) climax or anadiplosis (c) litotes (d) anacoluthon or aposiopesis

62. The figure of speech referred to in the immediately preceding question helps convey in the sonnets the idea of: (a) multiplicity (b) negativity (c) inevitability (d) unanimity

63. The acoustic properties of the second line of Astrophil and Stella sonnet 6 are: (a) smooth (b) euphonious (c) awkward (d) trochaic

64. The sound effect referred to in the immediately preceding question helps convey about lovers of women other than Stella all of the following except which one: (a) strong envy (b) disorganized thoughts (c) fragmented language (d) turbulent emotions

65. The organization or structure of Astrophil and Stella sonnet 9 is pretty definitely: (a) Italian (8 - 6) (b) English (4 - 4 - 4 - 2) (c) Reversal or countermotion (13 - 1) (d) None of the aforementioned

66. Sonnet 9, with reference to feminist literary criticism, might indicate a tendency of some males (in the English Renaissance only) to: (a) indulge in criticism more than praise (b) dodge discussion of long-term commitment (c) frequently be laconic or taciturn (d) focus on separate anatomical parts rather than the whole person

67. The organization or structure of Astrophil and Stella sonnet 10 is pretty clearly: (a) Italian (8 - 6) (b) English (4 - 4 - 4 - 2) (c) Reversal or countermotion (13 - 1) (d) None of the aforementioned

68. Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 18, like some of the sonnets of Shakespeare, makes thematic or characterizational use of the imagery or vocabulary of: (a) seafaring (b) alchemy (c) money (d) botany

69. Punning (or paronomasia) in the concluding line or couple of lines of sonnets 45 and 49 (tale; right = "straight; at a right angle"), as well as in the last stanza of "Fourth Song" (on high and fall) points to: (a) warfare (b) sex (c) writing (d) politics

70. Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 39 could be classified as which kind of poem: (a) definition (b) echo (c) anagram (d) posy

71. An implied element of plot in the sonnet cycle or sonnet sequence in Sonnets 87, 89, and 91 of Astrophil and Stella is a: (a) relative's serious illness (b) sudden religious conversion (c) natural disaster (d) trip or journey