1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's friends The daughter's artworks The daughter's anxieties The daughter's thoughts 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum," "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" "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." 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Rootedness in place Physical strength and size Age and wisdom Sublime beauty 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Assonance Onomatopoeia Alliteration Metonymy 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances Beauty is something that increases with age and experience 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Quintains Sestets Quatrains Octets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Blanket Eyelid Jar lid Curtain 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Prayer Brook Monument Daydream 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Sublimity Memorability Artistry 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" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? AABBCDDC ABACDCAB ABBACDDC ABABCDCD 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Pentameter Spondaic Monometer Iambic Trimeter 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? Synecdoche Simile Understatement Hyperbole 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is not yet born She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence She is very young and asleep She is the same age as her mother was when she was born 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? The changing seasons Nature's wrath Agricultural abundance Danger and extremes 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Helen of Troy Cleopatra Aphrodite Queen Victoria 18 Where is the poem set? Dublin in 1916 The Tower of London A battlefield during World War I An Irish woodland 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Upset Disorganized Uncertain Mistrustful 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Politeness Nobility Tradition Bluntness 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A version of W.B. Yeats himself A martyr for Irish independence before his execution A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A mother with a sick child 23 What is a linnet? A candle A baby A bird A nightgown 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Reason Heat Generosity Overstatement 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "May she be granted beauty" "The soul recovers radical innocence" "though every face should scowl" "let her think opinions are accursed."
