DuchessQuestions
Click the answer button to see the answer.
Who is the speaker?
a. Browning
b. Fra Pandolf
c. The Duke
Answer
c
Who is the auditor?
a. The Duchess
b. Claus of Innsbruck
c. An Envoy
Answer
c
What is the purpose of their conversation?
a. a discussion of painting
b. a treatise on sculpture
c. a bargaining session about marriage
Answer
c
What is the poetic form?
a. couplets
b. blank verse
c. sonnet
Answer
a
What is the poetic foot?
a. trochaic
b. iambic
c. spondaic
Answer
b
Type ll.5-13 from "I" to "Thus" into Microsoft Word. Determine grade level of prose.
a. 10.6
b. 11.6
c. 12.6
Answer
b
What primarily accounts for grade level?
a. # of words
b. # of 3 syllable words
c. # of commas
Answer
a
What is a possible meaning of "Sir,'twas all one."
a. many aspects of life made the duchess happy
b. no aspects of life made the duchess happy
c. one aspect of life made the duchess happy
Answer
a
What seems sinister about the line "Then all smiles stopped together."
a. suggests the duchess got angry
b. suggests the duke got scared
c. suggests the duke had the duchess done in
Answer
c
What does the use of the word "stoop" suggest about the duke?
a. his posture
b. his pride
c. his front porch
Answer
b
What is a possible meaning of "Nay, we'll go together down, sir."
a. the duke has a case of the frights
b. the duke is feigning egalitarian notions
c. the duke wants to boogie
Answer
b
What judgment can best be made about the Duke?
a. he longs for love
b. he loves art
c. he's an ego-maniacal murderer
Answer
c
What about the duke can produce sympathy in a reader?
a. he's got chutzpah
b. he's got humus
c. he's got a nice house
Answer
a
Go to Vic.Resources on my home page; access Victorian Poetry/Sum/97. Read article by C.Scheinberg; relate her thesis to Langbaum's Poetry of Experience and to #12 and #13 above.
a.
b.
Answer
Copyright 1998 by
W.J.Reeves
(
wreeves@brooklyn.cuny.edu
)
Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
is at http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/