Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

12th Grade

6 Qs

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

Assessment

Quiz

English

12th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RL.9-10.10, RL.9-10.9, RL.8.5

+4

Standards-aligned

Created by

Margaret Anderson

FREE Resource

6 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

“What more miraculous thing may be told

That fire which all things melts, should harden ice

The speaker wonders why the more he pleads with his beloved ...

the closer she draws near to him

the colder she becomes

the more her ice melts

the further she runs from him

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"“What more miraculous thing may be told

That fire which all things melts, should harden ice" The speaker asks why his beloved’s coldness does not

cool his desire

dissolve their relationship

delay their marriage

fade away

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

“Such is the pow’r of love in gentle mind,

That it can alter all the course of kind. “ The speaker concludes that ...

their love is dying

his beloved is preparing to leave him

he should give up on his beloved

love has supernatural powers

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away". The setting of the poem is....

The speaker's beachhouse

On board a ship

Along the beach

in heaven

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise." What does the speaker’s beloved say about his efforts to write her name in the sand?

She asks him to keep trying so that she can see her name written in the sand.

She says it is pointless because, just as she will die someday, her name will be wiped out and forgotten

She scolds him for doing such a ridiculous thing

She praises his efforts for immortalizing her name.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew."

Why does the speaker say that his beloved’s name, as well as their love, will last forever?

Because he has written about them in his poetry.

Because they have become famous.

Because songs about her virtues will be sung throughout eternity.

Because the heavens will declare her glorious name.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10