1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's artworks The daughter's friends The daughter's thoughts The daughter's anxieties 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares." "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" 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Physical strength and size Sublime beauty Age and wisdom Rootedness in place 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 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 Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Sestets Quatrains Quintains Octets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Jar lid Eyelid Curtain Blanket 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Prayer Daydream Monument Brook 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Memorability Stability Sublimity 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? ABACDCAB ABABCDCD ABBACDDC AABBCDDC 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Iambic Trimeter Spondaic Monometer Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Pentameter 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Frightening Burdening Observing Stopping 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Simile Understatement Synecdoche Hyperbole 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is not yet born She is very young and asleep 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? Agricultural abundance The changing seasons Danger and extremes Nature's wrath 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Aphrodite Cleopatra Helen of Troy 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? Disorganized Uncertain Upset Mistrustful 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Bluntness Nobility Tradition Politeness 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 urges his daughter to avoid extremes The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions 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 candle A nightgown A bird A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Reason Overstatement Generosity Heat 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "The soul recovers radical innocence" "though every face should scowl" "May she be granted beauty" "let her think opinions are accursed."
