1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's friends The daughter's thoughts The daughter's anxieties The daughter's artworks 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum," "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool" "For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares." "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Physical strength and size Rootedness in place Age and wisdom Sublime beauty 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Assonance Onomatopoeia Metonymy Alliteration 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined Beauty is something that increases with age and experience Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Quatrains Sestets Octets Quintains 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Curtain Jar lid Eyelid Blanket 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Monument Prayer Daydream Brook 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Sublimity Artistry Memorability Stability 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "the storm is howling" "to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABACDCAB ABABCDCD AABBCDDC ABBACDDC 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Spondaic Monometer Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Trimeter Iambic Pentameter 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Burdening Stopping Observing Frightening 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Understatement Hyperbole Simile Synecdoche 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is not yet born She is the same age as her mother was when she was born She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence She is very young and asleep 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? The changing seasons Nature's wrath Danger and extremes Agricultural abundance 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Helen of Troy Aphrodite Cleopatra Queen Victoria 18 Where is the poem set? A battlefield during World War I Dublin in 1916 An Irish woodland The Tower of London 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Upset Disorganized Uncertain Mistrustful 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Bluntness Nobility Politeness Tradition 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A mother with a sick child A version of W.B. Yeats himself A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A martyr for Irish independence before his execution 23 What is a linnet? A nightgown A candle A bird A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Heat Overstatement Reason Generosity 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "let her think opinions are accursed." "May she be granted beauty" "though every face should scowl" "The soul recovers radical innocence"
