1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's anxieties The daughter's artworks The daughter's thoughts The daughter's friends 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool" "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" "For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares." 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Sublime beauty Age and wisdom Rootedness in place Physical strength and size 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Metonymy Alliteration Onomatopoeia Assonance 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is something that increases with age and experience Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Quatrains Sestets Quintains Octets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Jar lid Curtain Blanket Eyelid 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Brook Monument Daydream Prayer 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Stability Sublimity Memorability Artistry 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "the storm is howling" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" "to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABABCDCD AABBCDDC ABBACDDC ABACDCAB 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Iambic Pentameter Iambic Trimeter Trochaic Hexameter Spondaic Monometer 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Burdening Observing Stopping Frightening 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Synecdoche Understatement Hyperbole Simile 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is very young and asleep 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 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? Queen Victoria Aphrodite Cleopatra Helen of Troy 18 Where is the poem set? The Tower of London Dublin in 1916 An Irish woodland A battlefield during World War I 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Disorganized Upset Mistrustful Uncertain 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Nobility Bluntness Politeness Tradition 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A martyr for Irish independence before his execution A mother with a sick child A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A version of W.B. Yeats himself 23 What is a linnet? A bird A baby A candle A nightgown 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Generosity Overstatement Heat Reason 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "though every face should scowl" "May she be granted beauty" "The soul recovers radical innocence" "let her think opinions are accursed."
