Set-I
1. Sonnet 18 is written in
(a) iambic trimester (b) iambic tetrameter (c) iambic pentameter (d) iambic hexameter
(c) iambic pentameter
2. Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" follows the rhyme scheme of ―
(a) abba abba cde cde (b) abab cdcd efef gg (c) abcd abcd efef gg (d) abba ccdd eegf gg
(b) abab cdcd efef gg
3. Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" contains ―
(a) three quatrains and a couplet (b) two quatrains and three couplets (c) an octave and a sestet (d) one couplet and a fourteen-line stanza
(a) three quatrains and a couplet
4. Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" is addressed to ―
(a) Shakespeare's wife (b) Queen Elizabeth (c) a young woman (d) a young man
(d) a young man
5. The wind that blows in the summer is ―
(a) hot (b) dry (c) rough (d) balmy
c) rough
6. The 'darling buds' are shaken by the rough wind of ―
(a) May (b) March (c) June (d) July
(a) May
7. The phrase 'summer's lease' suggests ―
(a) the span of heat (b) short-term of summer (c) beauty of the season (d) length of the season
(d) length of the season
8. "And summer's lease hath all too short a date" ― Here 'date' means ―
(a) a meek (b) a month (c) the beauty (d) duration
(d) duration
9. "Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines." ― Here 'eye of heaven' refers to ―
(a) the Mars (b) the Moon (c) the Sun (d) the Jupiter
(c) the Sun
10. The poet says that every 'fair' ―
(a) is a subject to change (b) can only diminish marginally (c) is the opposite of unfair (d) is not a subject to change
(a) is a subject to change
