A Prayer for my Daughter Quizzes

A Prayer for my Daughter Quiz

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?
"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?
Sublime beauty

Rootedness in place

Age and wisdom

Physical strength and size
4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following?
Metonymy

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Assonance
5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty?
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

Beauty is something that increases with age and experience
6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem?
Quintains

Quatrains

Sestets

Octets
7 What does the word "coverlid" mean?
Eyelid

Blanket

Curtain

Jar lid
8 What does the word "reverie" mean?
Prayer

Monument

Brook

Daydream
9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life?
Artistry

Memorability

Sublimity

Stability
10 Which of the following is an instance of personification?
"fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat"

"Helen being chosen found life flat and dull"

"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"
11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABACDCAB

ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC

ABBACDDC
12 What best describes the poem's meter?
Iambic Pentameter

Trochaic Hexameter

Spondaic Monometer

Iambic Trimeter
13 What does the word "affrighting" mean?
Observing

Stopping

Burdening

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 in the midst of a stormy adolescence

She is the same age as her mother was when she was born

She is not yet born

She is very young and asleep
16 What does the storm most closely symbolize?
Danger and extremes

The changing seasons

Nature's wrath

Agricultural abundance
17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer?
Aphrodite

Queen Victoria

Helen of Troy

Cleopatra
18 Where is the poem set?
An Irish woodland

Dublin in 1916

A battlefield during World War I

The Tower of London
19 What does the word "distraught" mean?
Uncertain

Upset

Disorganized

Mistrustful
20 What does the word "courtesy" mean?
Politeness

Nobility

Bluntness

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 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 candle

A nightgown

A baby

A bird
24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean?
Heat

Reason

Generosity

Overstatement
25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole?
"The soul recovers radical innocence"

"May she be granted beauty"

"let her think opinions are accursed."

"though every face should scowl"

A Prayer for my Daughter Questions and Answers

The Question and Answer section for A Prayer for my Daughter is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.

Ask Your Own Question

Study Guide for A Prayer for my Daughter

A Prayer for my Daughter study guide contains a biography of William Butler Yeats, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Read the Study Guide for A Prayer for my Daughter…