1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's anxieties The daughter's artworks The daughter's friends The daughter's thoughts 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" "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." 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? Onomatopoeia Metonymy Alliteration Assonance 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is something that increases with age and experience 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 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Sestets Octets Quatrains Quintains 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Jar lid Blanket Eyelid Curtain 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Prayer Monument Daydream Brook 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Stability Sublimity Artistry Memorability 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" "the storm is howling" "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 ABACDCAB ABBACDDC 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 Frightening Stopping 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Hyperbole Simile Understatement Synecdoche 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence She is the same age as her mother was when she was born She is very young and asleep She is not yet born 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? The changing seasons Danger and extremes Agricultural abundance Nature's wrath 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Cleopatra Helen of Troy Aphrodite Queen Victoria 18 Where is the poem set? Dublin in 1916 A battlefield during World War I The Tower of London An Irish woodland 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Disorganized Uncertain Mistrustful Upset 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Bluntness Nobility Politeness Tradition 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A martyr for Irish independence before his execution A version of W.B. Yeats himself A mother with a sick child A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child 23 What is a linnet? A bird A nightgown A candle A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Overstatement Generosity Heat Reason 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "May she be granted beauty" "let her think opinions are accursed." "The soul recovers radical innocence" "though every face should scowl"
