1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's thoughts The daughter's friends The daughter's anxieties The daughter's artworks 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" "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" 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Rootedness in place Age and wisdom Physical strength and size Sublime beauty 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Alliteration Metonymy Assonance Onomatopoeia 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable Beauty is something that increases with age and experience 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Quatrains Quintains Octets Sestets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Eyelid Jar lid Blanket Curtain 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Prayer Brook Daydream Monument 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Stability Memorability Artistry Sublimity 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "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" "the storm is howling" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABBACDDC AABBCDDC ABABCDCD ABACDCAB 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Trimeter Iambic Pentameter Spondaic Monometer 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Burdening Stopping Frightening Observing 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Synecdoche Simile Hyperbole Understatement 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? 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 She is very young and asleep 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? The changing seasons Nature's wrath Danger and extremes Agricultural abundance 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Queen Victoria Helen of Troy Aphrodite Cleopatra 18 Where is the poem set? A battlefield during World War I The Tower of London An Irish woodland Dublin in 1916 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Upset Uncertain Mistrustful Disorganized 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Politeness Bluntness Tradition Nobility 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 candle A bird A nightgown A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Overstatement Generosity Heat Reason 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."
