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  1. "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" is the opening line of —
    1. Sonnet 18
    2. Sonnet 29
    3. Sonnet 30
    4. Sonnet 116
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    Answer: (C) Sonnet 30

    It opens Sonnet 30, one of the Fair Youth sonnets.

  2. The rhyme scheme of Sonnet 30 is —
    1. abbaabba cdecde
    2. abab cdcd efef gg
    3. abab bcbc cdcd ee
    4. aabb ccdd eeff gg
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    Answer: (B) abab cdcd efef gg

    Three quatrains and a couplet — the Shakespearean pattern.

  3. The sustained image running through Sonnet 30 is drawn from —
    1. sailing and the sea
    2. law and accounting
    3. farming and harvest
    4. war and battle
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    Answer: (B) law and accounting

    Sessions, summon, cancelled, account and expense all come from the law court and the ledger.

  4. "Remembrance of things past" became the English title of a novel by —
    1. James Joyce
    2. Marcel Proust
    3. Virginia Woolf
    4. Thomas Hardy
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    Answer: (B) Marcel Proust

    It was used for Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu.

  5. In Sonnet 30 the volta or turn comes at —
    1. line 5
    2. line 9
    3. line 13
    4. line 1
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    Answer: (C) line 13

    The turn is kept back to the couplet, which is why the reversal feels so sudden.

  6. "Death’s dateless night" is an example of —
    1. simile
    2. metaphor
    3. pun
    4. litotes
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    Answer: (B) metaphor

    Death is called a night without a date — a metaphor for endless darkness.

  7. Sonnet 30 belongs to which group of Shakespeare’s sonnets?
    1. The Dark Lady sonnets
    2. The Fair Youth sonnets
    3. The Cupid sonnets
    4. The Rival Poet sonnets
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    Answer: (B) The Fair Youth sonnets

    It is addressed to the young man of sonnets 1–126.

  8. What ends the speaker’s sorrow in the sonnet?
    1. The passage of time
    2. Prayer and faith
    3. The thought of his friend
    4. The coming of spring
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    Answer: (C) The thought of his friend

    The couplet says that thinking of the dear friend restores all losses.

  9. "And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er" — the phrase "tell o’er" here means —
    1. to narrate a story
    2. to count over
    3. to warn someone
    4. to confess
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    Answer: (B) to count over

    Tell in its old sense means to count, as a bank teller counts money.

  10. Shakespeare’s sonnets were first published in —
    1. 1557
    2. 1593
    3. 1609
    4. 1623
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    Answer: (C) 1609

    The quarto of 1609, dedicated to "Mr. W.H.".

  11. Which sonnet is the closest companion to Sonnet 30?
    1. Sonnet 18
    2. Sonnet 29
    3. Sonnet 73
    4. Sonnet 130
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    Answer: (B) Sonnet 29

    Sonnet 29 has the same movement — long sorrow, then relief at the thought of the friend.

  12. The repetition in "grieve at grievances" and "fore-bemoaned moan" chiefly creates a sense of —
    1. joy and release
    2. sorrow going round in circles
    3. anger at fate
    4. religious hope
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    Answer: (B) sorrow going round in circles

    The repeated sounds make the grief feel circular and unending.

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