AP English Literature - AP Support - The Triple Fool by John Donne

In context, "numbers" (line 10) refers to which of the following?

"verse" (line 11)

The poem as a whole is best characterized as which of the following?

A complaint

In the second stanza, the dissemination of "such songs" (line 19) leads to which of the following?

A renewal of the speaker's sorrow

In context, lines 4-5 suggest which of the following about the speaker's situation?

His love is unrequited

In lines 12-16, what happens to the poetry the speaker has composed?

It is publicly performed.

In lines 6-11, the speaker suggests that he composes poetry primarily to

assuage his lovesickness

In the context of the poem as a whole, the speaker can be characterized as all of the following EXCEPT

envious

According to the speaker, the "man" in line 13 is motivated chiefly by

the desire to display his own talents

In context, the speaker is made a fool of for a third time as a result of

the public response to his verse

The speaker describes his poetry as "whining" because he believes it is

undignified

In context, line 22 is best interpreted to mean that

wisdom can open new avenues of foolishness