1 Which of the following images does the speaker NOT compare to "the bed we loved in"? Cliff-tops Castles Lagoons Torchlight 2 Who sleeps in the best bed? Guests Nobody Shakespeare's other lover Shakespeare 3 Which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her body to? Iambic pentameter A rhyme Assonance An echo 4 What does the speaker's husband do in the metaphorical seas? Set a net for mussels Harpoon a trout Drown Dive for pearls 5 What does the speaker compare her husband's kisses to? Hidden diamonds Shooting stars Pearls from an oyster Faraway galaxies 6 This poem references... letters from Shakespeare to a different lover Shakespeare's will Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream letters from Anne Hathaway to a different lover 7 To what does the speaker compare her head? A casket A bird's nest A tomb A hammock 8 What does the speaker dream? That she is back with her husband again That her husband had written her That her husband was still alive That her husband has written a play about her 9 What does the speaker refer to as "a spinning world?" The forest The sea The first-best bed The second-best bed 10 To what does the speaker compare how she holds her husband in the "casket" of her head? How she idolized him in life How he held poetry in his mind How he held a different lover when he was unfaithful How he held her in bed 11 What or who plays "romance and drama" in this poem? Touch, scent, and taste The couples' houseguests Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare Shakespeare's poems 12 Where is this poem's epigraph from? Shakespeare's letters Shakespeare's will Shakespeare's play Antony & Cleopatra Anne Hathaway's letters 13 Fill in the blanks: "a ____ dancing in the centre of a ____." verb; noun noun; verb adjective; noun noun; adverb 14 Whom does the speaker refer to as "living laughing?" Herself Shakespeare Their guests when awake Her children 15 What form does this poem somewhat follow? A Shakespearean sonnet A Petrarchan sonnet A sestina A villanelle 16 Which of the following is true? This poem strictly follows iambic pentameter This poem uses onomatopoeia heavily This poem follows a strict rhyme scheme This poem does not follow a strict rhyme scheme 17 Fill in the blanks: "Some nights I dreamed he’d written me, the ____/ a ____ beneath his writer’s hands." bed; page bed; play will; story love; book 18 This poem is in third person. True False 19 Which of the following is true? This poem means to fictionalize Shakespeare's life. This poem means to show the female perspective of a well-known historical moment that is usually interpreted from the male perspective. This poem means to revitalize the speaker's memory of Shakespeare. This poem means to strip Shakespeare of his significance and remind the readers of his flaws. 20 Where does most of this poem seem to take place? On a cliff-top Shakespeare and Hathaway's home In the streets of London At the bottom of the ocean 21 Fill in the blank: "The bed we loved in was a spinning ____" orb forest world poem 22 When is this poem being told? After Shakespeare's death On the night of Shakespeare and Hathaway's wedding After Hathaway's death After Shakespeare's father's death 23 Fill in the blank: "In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on, dribbling their ____." prose dreams poetry drool 24 The speaker never names Shakespeare in the poem, instead referring to him as her lover. False True 25 The title character of this poem is the object of this speaker's desire. True False